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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil by [Edward C. Smith]

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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil Kindle Edition

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Smith’s legendary high-yield gardening method emphasizes wide rows, organic methods, raised beds, and deep soil. Succeed with fussy plants, try new and unusual varieties, and learn how to innovatively extend your growing season. With thorough profiles of hundreds of popular varieties, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible provides expert information and an inspiring roadmap for gardeners of all skill levels to enjoy abundant homegrown vegetables.

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Edward C. Smith is the best-selling author of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible and The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible. For more than 30 years he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived off the grid in Vermont, in a house they built on land they cleared by hand. Together, the grow more than 100 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in their 2,000 square feet of gardens and containers.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003PGQK1O
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC; 2nd edition (December 2, 2009)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2009
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 63780 KB
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Best Sellers Rank: #112,355 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11 in Gardening & Horticulture Reference (Kindle Store)
- #12 in Organic Gardening & Horticulture (Kindle Store)
- #17 in Gardening & Horticulture Vegetables

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Edward C. Smith is the author of Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers. He tends a garden of over 1,500 square feet filled with raspberries, blueberries, flowers, herbs, and nearly 100 varieties of vegetables, including some heirlooms, in his home state of Vermont.

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Arrose23

Wealth of knowledge for the beginner or experienced gardener.

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017

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This book is a wealth of knowledge. It has so many gardening ideas/techniques from A to Z. Truly! I've been gardening for a couple of years now but didn't feel that I was really getting the hang of it as much as I could. I already had put in raised beds. But I like how this book has provided information on how much I could plant in one area (like bunched all together and such) and different schemes of planting. Sure, it says how to plant on the back of the seed packaging, but there is more planning into it than you would think. I will also regularly forget what plants like others and which ones don't. Not anymore! This book has the full list. Watering plants. No brainer right? Wrong! At least if you want your garden to be growing at it's very best. Of course, that's even included in this book. I really like that this book also involves soil and how important it is and how to check it. Moving from another state where some vegetables grew so well to this state where those same plants struggle has been difficult. I'm going to have really invest into the soil this year and I'm grateful that this book explains the steps on what I need to do. There really is so much more about this book but unfortunately I don't have time to write a novel. My favorite part of this book though is the glossary of information about each vegetable you'd ever even think about planting. Each page includes: the name of the vegetable, information about it, where they like to been sown and grown, seed depth, germination soil temperature, days to germination, when to sow indoors (or not to), when to sow outdoors (or not to), growing pH, growing soil temperature, spacing in beds, watering, light needed, nutrient requirements, rotation considerations, and seed longevity. Seriously helpful no matter how short or long you have been gardening.

My only dislikes about this book is that certain parts didn't get more information. Like greenhouse growing. I was hoping there would be more information given on growing and continuing in the greenhouse should I not want to plant outside. If bee's needed to get inside, how that would all work.

I was super happy to see the section on vertical gardening. I have tried it once before but was eager for more information. Sadly, even though it showed 3 examples of vertical gardening (tepees, A-frames, homemade trellises), it only showed how to make a typical trellis. I was hoping to see how to make the A-frame one in particular.

Still love this book though. Highly recommend.

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skitzoeffective

Exactly a garden bible

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2019

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This is exactly what it says the gardening bible!! Tells You every little thing about every kind of vegetable and most herbs!! And its a big big book!! So much information this is the book of all book I haven’t even read the frost 150 pages i went straight through to the vegetable plant directory i can tell you ill be reading this most days when im not outside in the garden this is a must have for evryone looking to learn more about growing ur own garden vegetables and herbs thank you for this great book

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Black-Thumb Learned to Grow a Self-Sufficient Family Garden with this Book!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014

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I gotta tell ya... I have no idea what I'm doing. Let me start by saying how I came to find this book; I am a mother of two little boys and lost my mother to breast cancer at a young age. The food I buy at the grocery store, no matter how thoroughly I read the label I know will always have something I don't want in it. I put an exhausting amount of effort into thinking about the food my family eats but sometimes it's just so overwhelming, I give up and just order a pizza. Sounds off topic but that is how I landed on this book, I was exhausted and feeling like nothing I could ever buy would truly be a healthy option to feed my family and steer away from harmful cancer-causing chemicals in our food. So, I went to the internet to search for something to help my black-thumb and figure out how to provide the healthiest food for my family, without breaking the bank. Like I mentioned before I have no idea what I'm doing. I come from the school of thought that if I kill my flowers, I just run down to the store and buy new pretty flowers and throw away the old ones I killed and replace with new said flowers. Happy day. Well, that doesn't really work when you're trying to actually produce a harvest of some kind...

I have been reading this book for months and I started by dog-earing pages that were helpful... Don't do it. I soon realized I was dog-earing every single page. This book has helped me to understand every aspect of starting and maintaining a garden. My dad, who actually grew up on a farm, read some of my book when he came to visit and even he was very impressed. I mention this because I don't think this book is only for idiot-gardeners like myself. He read a lot of the recommendations and theories for wide-row and organic methods and he even learned from this book. I would highly recommend purchasing this book. Great photos, diagrams, illustrations, bullet-points, what to buy, what to reuse & recycle, incredible in-depth bios of vegetable plants (encyclopedia-style, more than you could ever want to know about a plant). The list really goes on and on. The pictures are so helpful!

This book showed me how to start with a 3x3 raised bed, non-permanent, producing vegetable & herb garden (which is great for me because we are in Southern California so any amount of land is tough to come by & we rent). It helped me to not feel overwhelmed or take on too much too soon in my first major gardening endeavor and now I am able to start feeding my family more and more healthy organic vegetables that I grow from seed. I don't even have to go to Whole Foods and spend 50% of our income on our veggie budget each month. I learned how to plan everything out, start my seeds indoors with soilless seed-starting mix, transplanting, soil temp, vertical gardening, composting and how to save my plants organically and relatively simply when something (be it bug, bird or disease) is trying to eat or kill all of my efforts.

In summation, I learned how to grow a self-sufficient garden for my family with this book and it will be my most trusted garden companion for years to come. So well written.

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Wife loves it

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2019

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Great idea

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Michelle

Book in Bad condition

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021

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Book looks clearly used. Scratches on cover/ Multiple pages are torn book looks mangled. For the price I expected a book in perfect condition. Considering I didn’t buy used.... extremely disappointed

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Bob Davis

Good description of vegetable needs

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020

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There is really nothing wrong with this book. However, as gardeners, we have sort of moved on from a general discussion of raised beds. This book only really discusses raised beds for about 15 pages. After that it moves on to discussing the needs of various vegetables, their growth habits, etc. which is quite good, but not really specific to raised beds. I was hoping for a more thorough discussion of materials, construction methods, soil mixing, etc.. It mentioned not using arsenic and other wood preservatives but didn't really show other alternatives. I was just hoping for more.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018

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neat guide

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Amy L Weller

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2018

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Margaret Howard

Good bible for beginners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2021

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Given as a gift to beginner gardeners. It looked great and came promptly

Anne Read

A comprehensive guide to all aspects of growing and harvesting vegetables.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2013

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This book was bought as a present for a gardener who enjoys growing and cooking his own vegetables ~ he was delighted to receive this book which he described as "a comprehensive guide to all aspects of growing and harvesting vegetables". It had been recommended to him by a friend.

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Pippa

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2016

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Good sound advice!

Marie J.

Literalmente una biblia para aprender a cultivar

Reviewed in Mexico on October 9, 2018

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Qué puedo decir! Un libro que es disno de llamarse biblia del hortelano. No tengo palabras para describir qué tan bueno es. Tiene toda la información si no tienes noción alguna de qué estás haciendo jaja. Yo tenía experiencia previa pero está tan bien explicado que me parece una fuente de consulta frecuente. Está lleno de imagenes y todo pasó a paso.
Lo recomiendo muchísimo y sé que les ayudará sin duda alguna.

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An awesome book...

Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2020

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This is an excellent book, as a beginner gardener, I have learnt a great deal, excellent color pictures showing great detail. Very happy with this book..

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