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The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide

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As a newcomer to the Northwest, I was delighted and relieved to find the Maritime Northwest Garden Guide. It is a planting calendar for year-round organic gardening and so much more. Growing in this climate is so vastly different from my experiences in the Midwest that sometimes I felt like a complete novice. Month-by-month, the Garden Guide provides a nearly exhaustive list on which seeds are appropriate to sow indoors, sow outdoors, and sow under cloches. Following their suggestions yields year-round produce. It's full of great reminders that January is the time to start planning your crop rotation, February is the time to have your soil tested, March is the month to begin the soil amendments and April is the time to begin hardening off. What? you don't know what "hardening off" means? You really need to buy this book!

This is a great book for the northwest gardener (But a must have for the gardener that just moved to the region) because for one it brakes down what should be done each and every month of year to have a great garden. It let you know what flowers, herbs and veggies grow the best, when they should be plant, and how to manage your plants organically. For me it took the mystory out of the organic farming by telling me what to do and why it helps. It shouldn't be the only garden book in your library but it should be one of your first. Have a great year in the garden.

Fantastic reference. Month by month of what to plant and where (indoors, outside, under cloche, etc). Also lists specific varieties of veggies and is interspersed with good general gardening info.

This is a really great garden guide for maritime climates. It includes a list of what vegetables, herbs, and annuals to plant on a monthly basis in an easy to follow format. I've been gardening for years and still refer to it regularly. A very helpful and handy guide!

This book filled in all of the gaps from other books we had and provided exatly the information we were looking for, for our garden here in the Puget Sound. Highly recommended.