Synopsis
Provides information on planning a vegetable garden; explains how to select and care for plants; and discusses gardening tools, pests, and special garden designs.
From the Publisher
Grow Your Own Greens with Vegetable Gardening For Dummies!You can't tell rhubarbs from rutabaga and you don't know kale from kohlrabi, but you want to plant an exceptional vegetable garden this year. Don't despair! Vegetable Gardening For Dummies, a new book by the National Gardening Association's chief horticulturist Charlie Nardozzi, provides green thumbs and novices alike with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to growing delicious, nutritious, and beautiful vegetables.
Whether you want to grow just a few tomatoes in that dirt patch out back or whether you're determined to create an enormous, exotic garden with plenty of bok choy, mizuna, and escarole, Vegetable Gardening For Dummies will guide you through the entire process.
The book explains how to choose just the right spot for your veggie garden and then directs you to the planting guidelines for your climatic region. When you're ready to start planting, Vegetable Gardening For Dummies provides in-depth information about the most popular vegetables, in addition to covering the basics about a slew of lesser-known veggies like salsify and radicchio.
Vegetable Gardening For Dummies makes growing vegetables so easy you'll count the days until your veggie garden grows!