Starter Vegetable Gardens is a beginner friendly tutorial guide with plans for starting and succeeding with small organic gardens by Barbara Pleasant. Due out 7th Feb 2023 from Storey, it's 232 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
Storey is quite well known for high quality lifestyle, gardening, and sustainable living titles. This is a classic, and lives up to their standards. There's a logical progressive layout which takes readers through planning, siting, selecting, planting, soil improvement, harvesting and other necessary tasks using accessible, easy to understand language supported by good clear photography and schematics.
The book also includes several appendices: a glossary and definitions list, a metric conversion chart, an overview over the garden plans included in the book, as well as a short resource and seed vendor list. Vendors are slanted toward readers in North America, but with online vendors, availability shouldn't be problematic for readers living elsewhere.
Five stars. This would make a good choice for smallholders, gardening / allotment groups, public or school library acquisition, and for the home gardener.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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