Grow Great Vegetables in Minnesota & Wisconsin is a regionally
tailored home gardening guide for producing vegetables for taste and
nutrition and to increase self-reliance and food security. This is one
of a series of regionally/state specific guides released & reformatted
by Timber press. Edited by Bevin Cohen,
it's due out in May 2023, runs 212 pages and will be available in
paperback and ebook formats. It's based on an earlier release Vegetable
Gardening in the Midwest by Michael VanderBrug, reformatted and edited
for MN & WI gardeners. All of the guides in this series follow the same
format.
This guide is arranged by seasons with a chapter for each month. The
introductory chapter (~13% of the page content) covers garden planning,
climates and subzones in MN & WI, as well as very general
gardening advice. Worth noting that a majority of the content of the
books in this series based on/edited from the same volume (in this case
Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest) contain overlapping information and
there are only slight differences in content and recommendations.
The monthly sections include tasks for each month, potential problems
and troubleshooting, planning and placement of the garden plot,
harvesting and more.
The third section of the book is a regional guide to choosing vegetables and specific varieties which will thrive in the area.
There's a resource list (slanted to readers in the Midwest),
a bibliography and further reading list, USDA based hardiness zonal
map, and an index. The photography is crisp, clear, and abundant. This
is a well crafted book which will provide gardeners with hours of
blissful dreaming as well as serving as a valuable troubleshooting
guide. For readers who have the aforementioned Gardening in the Midwest,
much of the content is verbatim here. For readers unfamiliar with the
earlier title, there's a lot of worthwhile info here.
Four stars. Very well done.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
No comments:
Post a Comment