Ultimate Guide to Planting & Growing Vegetables at Home is a volume in the popular Creative Homeowner series on a wide variety of themes for gardening, home repair, and general maintenance. Released 11th March 2025 by Fox Chapel on their Creative Homeowner imprint, it's 304 pages and is available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout.
This is a good introductory/general primer with tips and tutorials for siting, planning, and executing a beginner garden to get good, usable, consistent, results. It's written in consultation with a number of master gardeners and horticulturalists, and provides solid info on what to choose (and some of the whys and wherefores) and how to plant to get results. The info is arranged thematically into logical chapters: starting (sites, resources), choosing varieties to grow, soil, soil improvement, weed/pest suppression, plant profiles, sowing, planting, growing, harvesting, and storing & using harvests (including a few very basic recipes).
It's well photographed and illustrated in color throughout. The pictures are clear and easy to understand.
Four stars. This would be a good selection for public or school library acquisition, home use, or reference. It's very basic, but covers all the bases.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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