Vegetable Gardening

Gardening is the section for the books by Benjamin Greenfield about growing your own food. He writes from a small family farm in Oregon. He writes for people who have never grown a vegetable. So the advice here is practical and tested in real soil. It assumes no experience and no big plot. The book in this category is The Year-Round Vegetable Garden for Beginners. It uses the no-dig method: you build the bed on top of the ground and feed it with compost. There is less work and, in time, better soil. From there, it follows the year one season at a time. It gives you a planting calendar, care profiles for the common crops and a chapter on the problems every first garden meets. As a result, you get vegetables in every season, not only in summer. The post about the book tells you who it is for, what is inside and where to buy it. Moreover, Benjamin keeps a blog on his own site. There he follows the same method through the year, one vegetable at a time. The book gives you the plan. The blog shows what happens when the plan meets the weather, the pests and the failures. Gardening is a small category for now, with one book and one author. That is on purpose: one method, explained once and well. When a new title comes, it will appear here first. In short, this is the place to start if you want fresh food from your own garden this season. Read the book post, and then let the blog take you through the year.