The New Victory Garden [Paperback]

Bob Thomson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1987

For everyone interested in enhancing the beauty found in and around the home, The New Victory Garden promises to be the season's most valuable gardening tool. 230 full-color photographs and 100 line drawings. Size C. 50,000 paper. (Gardening/Indoor-Outdoor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P); 1st edition (October 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316843369
• ISBN-13: 978-0316843362
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,013 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite and most used gardening books, August 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The New Victory Garden (Paperback)

This is an absolute must for any gardener, especially the first time gardener. It gives month to month coverage of the garden and what to do for each month. This is one of my gardening books. If you can get your hands on a copy, it is worth it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An all time favorite, September 2, 2005

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Smallchief - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: The New Victory Garden (Paperback)

In my periodic attempts to grow vegetables, this book -- and its predecessor, "Crockett's Victory Garden," have been my constant and favorite companions. It's past time for this 1987 book to be updated and republished.

This is Cadillac gardening as Crockett and his successor Bob Thomson apparently had a large budget, a full toolshed, and endless time to produce a perfect garden. My pitiful efforts never yield much in the way of edible products, but I enjoy reading about how I would grow vegetables if I were not such a lazy and shiftless person.

The book is broken down by months with a long list of vegetables for planting, tending, and harvesting for each month as well as other garden tasks. The monthly labors are for Boston. Being further south, I tend to do things a month earlier in the spring and a month later in the fall than Thomson prescribes. "The New Victory Garden" is full of solid gardening advice for an establishmentarian gardener. If you're into organics or (like me) inclined to low-impact, no inputs type cultivation, you might not like Thomson's reliance on chemical fertilizers -- but he makes up for it with good advice on compost, natural fertilizers, and lots of touchy feely stuff. The pictures are beautiful. Someday, in some future world I'll have a garden like this. Yeah, sure. Dream on! But I like reading the book and I occasionally try to follow the advice.

Smallchief

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FIND THIS BOOK IF YOU CAN!, June 3, 2000

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Kara Klein (Westchester, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Victory Garden (Hardcover)

This is THE most outstanding gardening book - month by month entries for each vegetable, organic methods of improving soil and pest control. My father handed this one down to me when I started my own garden - I don't understand why this hasn't been reprinted or the format copied.