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Summary: If you like to garden for vegtables this is a great book
Review: I bought this book for my husband. He has been spell bound. We are trying the wide row method this year and we have been able to get SO MANY more plants in teh same amount of space. It is amazing! It's very easy to read and follow.
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Summary: Vegetable Gardener's Bible - Great Book!
Review: I cannot recommend this book more, especially for gardeners here in New England. It is full of good, practical advice and shows that organic methods are easy to employ. He's given me the courage to start tomatoes from seed this year.This book is a best buy!
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Summary: vegetable gardeners bible indeed!
Review: I started my own garden using the wide, deep, rised
bed technique described in this book and the yields were
really quite stunning. I used planks to rise my beds by
a feet. Explains every step from designing/planning via building
and planting and taking care of your garden to harvesting
and readying for the winter. Fabulous gardening book for the beginner and advanced
gardener. Full of wonderful tips and info about everything
vegetable garden.
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Summary: Thorough and Interesting
Review: I've tried gardening before, but now that I have real land to work with, I'm ready to grow all the vegetables I can. I feel so lucky to have a book surveying the best methods, tested here in Vermont! Beyond the good advice, this book is fun to read, full of stories and metaphors. The photographs are very clear, and I keep referring to the pages dedicated to individual vegetables. An excellent reference source for beginners -- those more experienced might want to compare notes!
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Summary: One amazingly helpful book!
Review: If you must have just one gardening book, beginner or expert, this is it. Ed covers everything from digging a new bed to putting them to sleep in the winter, all with organic principals and methods. The pictures really add to this book and make it, not only a how-to book, but a great read. Give Ed's W-O-R-D system a try...you'll never look back!
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Summary: The Best Vegetable Gardener's Book
Review: It is a very detailed, helpful and inspiring vegetable gardening book. I go through the book almost every week. Nice pictures and writing style. I hope Mr. Ed Smith will write more books on vegetable gardening!
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Summary: It's a * * WONDER* * book!
Review: THANK YOU Mr. Smith for writing this book! I couldn't say enough about how helpful it's been to me. Wanting to be careful and do things right, since I'm a beginning gardener, this book tells in simple, everyday language with photos on how to start and keep up a vegetable garden. Here's a list of a few things it covers:
* designing your garden
* insect control
* soil care
* what veges to NOT plant with other veges
* diagrams
* lots of veges and all the info you could want about them
* herb section
* seed companies
* other recommended resources
* and MORE
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Summary: Well organized, informative, and entertaining.
Review: The library wouldn't let me renew this book anymore, so I had to buy my own copy! As a novice gardener, I found this book to be just the thing to see me through my first growing season. As a librarian, I love the organization, the completeness of the index, and the thorough way all subjects are handled. There is a great section on herbs, too. As an avid reader, I enjoyed his occasional asides to the reader. For example, under ASPARGUS, STORING, the author tells us: "You must be kidding. You don't store asparagus, you eat it!" This is just what I wanted to be told, having eaten untold numbers of young asparagus spears with the mud still on 'em. A worthy purchase.
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Summary: Vegetable Gardener's Bible
Review: The title says it all. This is my vegetable bible. Being a novice, I was looking for something as simple and informative as a "Dummies" book but without insulting my intelligence. Not only is all the information you need to start or continue a garden, the pictures fill in details that as a first time grower I might not quite understand in words. His explanations are simple, concise and extremely informative. Most of all, it's filled with little hints throughout the book so that you may have a successful garden. It was the best purchase I had made on a gardening book so far. Thank you Ed! Happy growing!
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Summary: Simply The Best!
Review: This book answers, with outstanding instruction, pictures and humor, any and all of your questions on vegetable gardening. Had Ed Smith published it earlier we would have saved a ton of dirt along with a ton of money! We keep it in our little greenhouse alll during the growing season as we refer to it daily. And we are now buying it for gifts for both novice and experienced gardening friends.
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