Grow Easy Veg: Essential Know-how and Expert Advice for Gardening Success
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Discover how to grow it yourself!
Growing your own vegetables is a rewarding venture that’s both affordable and delicious, but a novice gardener might not know where to begin. This is your no-fuss guide to vegetable gardening.
Do you want to learn how to start and sustain your own vegetable garden throughout the year? This vegetable gardening book for beginners will help you choose and care for more than 40 different varieties, all specially selected for successful growing.
From vegetable garden must-haves to less-common crops like edamame beans, this is a one-stop guide to growing vegetables that are easy to grow! Discover detailed information on how to sow, plant, feed, water, protect and harvest your vegetables.
You don’t have to be a horticulture expert to get started, this indispensable reference book will take you through every single step! It includes:
– Tips on how to care for more than 40 different vegetable varieties
– Packed with practical, jargon-free know-how and simple gardening techniques
– Easy-to-follow format to help grow your gardening knowledge
Let It Grow!
Gorgeous, full-colour photography provides plenty of inspiration and ideas for your patch! Expert tips and step-by-step instructions on every page help make sure that you care for your vegetables in the right way in order for them to grow.
Grow Easy Veg covers everything you need to know about growing herbs and vegetables, while expert tips help you troubleshoot as you go. It’s the perfect book for first-time gardeners!
Complete the Series:
Make your green-fingered dreams a reality with the Grow series from DK. Learn how to brighten up even the trickiest areas in Grow Containers, or discover how to garden more sustainably in Grow Eco-Gardening. Alternatively, there are more titles to explore such as Grow Pruning & Training and Grow Houseplants.
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Additional information
| Publisher | DK (18 Mar. 2021) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 144 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241458595 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241458594 |
| Dimensions | 18.5 x 1.3 x 22.8 cm |
by Socks
This is a well thought out and laid out book. It is clear and useful in a practical sense. Very useful for a gardener who is still learning!
by Karen Baxter
The “Grow” series of gardening books from DK is a wonderful selection of books covering many different aspects of gardening.
This review is for “Grow Easy Veg: Essential Know-how and Expert Advice for Gardening Success” by No Whittingham. A book that is jam packed full of inspiring ideas, planting styles and how to grow a vast range of vegetables that are easy to grow! Filled with detailed information on how to sow, plant, feed, water, protect and harvest your vegetables.
This is a paperback book measuring 22.8 cm in height x 18.4 cm in width and contains 144 pages.
The book is set out in the following seven chapters:
1. Planning, Planting and Growing
2. Salads and Herbs
3. Peas and Beans
4. The Onion Family
5. Summer Vegetables
6. Root Vegetables
7. Leafy Vegetables
Throughout this fantastic book are step by step projects and beautiful full colour photographs on every page and the book itself is set out in a very readable style making it the perfect book for dipping in and out of … learning something new each time. Just the thing for the beginner gardener.
This is a lovely and informative book … one that should be on every new gardeners bookshelf.
Thank you for reading and I hope you have found my review helpful
by A. Skudder
This book is split into two main parts. The first 50 pages or so are general information about growing veg, explaining the main concepts and going into things like composting, watering, crop rotation and so on.
The rest of the book has information specific to various plants, with a two-page spread for each. Each of those two-page spreads is laid out the same way, so it is easy to find what you want to know.
The plant-specific pages are grouped so that all the leafy veg are together, all the root veg are together, and so on, with a short troubleshooting page at the end of each group.
We are beginners at this, just starting to grow things in our tiny garden in a raised bed plus a few pots and grow bags on the patio, and this explained to us very clearly what we need to be doing.
by Glenn Cook
Jo Whittingham has compiled a comprehensive, educational and easy to read book on how to grow your own vegetables.
I must admit I have forgotten half my knowledge of how to grow vegetables.
As you would expect from the publishers DK the book is comprehensive and well Illustrated.
Following the techniques allows you to grow your own veg with confidence and dare I say, success.
by Starry night
planning, planting, and growing; types of veg to grow for your garden; composting; containers, soil, and bed types; starting from seed/plants; feeding; watering; protection; post-harvest and preparing for a second season.
The balance of the book is concerned with specific vegetable types. A pretty solid range is covered including fairly standard basics such as broad, runner and French beans, sweetcorn, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, onions and shallots, as well as less common varieties such as Borlotti beans, kohlrabi, chard, and globe artichokes. The book doesn’t assume that a beginner gardener will have access to a full-size greenhouse, so by and large the varieties focussed on encompass things which need to be started under cover (e.g. on a windowsill or in a mini greenhouse) and can then be moved outside; or which can be planted direct into the soil. So e.g. peppers and aubergines aren’t included, and the only cucumbers dealt with here are the ridge variety.
Vegetables are divided roughly by types, with a couple of pages of troubleshooting advice following each section. This troubleshooting gives some hints and helps with problem identification, but is quite basic, and for most problems additional information needs to be sought. For example, caterpillars are given as an example of a problem affecting leafy (brassica type) plants and it’s mentioned that you need to keep an eye out for eggs and manually remove these/caterpillars – but there’s no warning about the different types of caterpillars and that you need to be looking for both clusters of eggs (typical of large cabbage white eggs), and rather harder to find individual eggs (small cabbage white). A single caterpillar image – a mature, hairy, large cabbage white caterpillar – is shown. This is the type that tends to be laid in clusters and is easier to find on plants, but it would helpful if the book mentioned that this is not representative of the appearance of all brassica-devouring caterpillars. Not least as the green caterpillars of small cabbage whites can be just as voracious, but harder to locate. Using netting is mentioned, but not which type to use. And there’s no mention of simple, organic sprays (such as a combination of water, garlic, and a drop of cooking oil) which can help to make plants less appealing to a variety of pests.
by Tree Hugger
This DK Grow addition is a fantastic book for referencing throughout the year and is the perfect guide for a wide range of ages.
Offering practical advice and guidance for all the popular vegetables that so many of us have taken to growing during the many lockdowns, this is a valuable guide and one that is extremely user-friendly.
With each vegetable selected given two whole pages, here you can read through their sowing, growing, and harvesting requirements and much more besides.
Also ideal for beginners and those younger gardeners, this is a wonderful choice of guides and is incredibly low priced.
by carol J Hart
I bought this for a good friend who is a total beginner and it is really helpful to her, i was so impressed I bought one too and ive been gardening for years
by Tree Hugger
This is a very well written, informative and easy to understand book. Perfect for beginners or those who want to improve their chances of growing good quality vegetables. The book is clearly laid out and well illustrated with colour photos. Recommended if you have an interest in gardening.