Vegetable Gardening: The Complete Guide to Growing More Than 40 Popular Vegetables in Any Space

Learn how to go "from backyard to table" in any size space!

• Over 40 vegetables and how to grow, care for, harvest, store, and cook them
• 9 crop categories including salad vegetables, root vegetables, beans and peas, perennials, cruciferous vegetables, and more
• Planning your garden, evaluating your growing space, and picking the best spot for planting
• Plant health, finding your soil type, proper irrigation and drainage, and natural pest control
• Raised beds, container gardening instructions, and more tips for growing in small or limited outdoor spaces
• Season-by-season checklist of how you can maintain your garden year-round to ensure a great harvest

Imagine the satisfaction of enjoying fresh, just-picked goodness that comes right from your own backyard!

With our interest in natural foods and getting "back to basics" ever on the rise, what better place to start than at home? Whether you are an avid gardener or have never sown a seed, you can experience the nutritious bounty of your own vegetable garden with this helpful guide!

Inside Vegetable Gardening, internationally recognized gardener Carol Klein shares her expert advice on growing vegetables, gained from her years of gardening experience. Carol will guide you through every step no matter your skill level, from selecting a suitable location and planning a garden site in an outdoor space of any size to nurturing a garden full of thriving vegetables and harvesting and serving your homegrown goodies.

Within these 224 information-packed pages, you will learn how to factor your soil type and climate into decisions about what to grow and when to plant it. The book provides clear sowing, planting, growing, and harvesting instructions for more than 40 vegetables, organized into 9 different crop groups with shared characteristics.

You will also discover examples of different setups for watering your plants, find practical suggestions for storing and cooking your fresh vegetables, and learn how to deal safely with weeds, common pests, parasites, and diseases. Additional guidance covers notable vegetable varieties and other essential tips to help you grow a productive, healthy vegetable garden.

Vegetable Gardening is a beautiful and comprehensive manual to getting started growing your own produce! Along with a seasonal guide to planting and harvesting, you'll explore profiles with step-by-step illustrated planting and growing instructions for more than 40 garden favorites, logically organized into groups with similar characteristics.

Learn how to grow all these delicious crops:

• Alliums like garlic, leeks, onions, and shallots
• Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, collards, and kale
• Runner beans, pole and bush beans, fava beans, and peas
• Perennials including asparagus, artichokes, sunchokes, and rhubarb
• Roots like beets, carrots, celeriac, fennel, sweet potatoes, and parsnips
• Salad fixings like lettuces, edible flowers, endive, cucumbers, radishes, tomatoes, and spinach
• Summer squash, zucchini, winter squash, pumpkins, and corn
• Heat-loving veggies like eggplant, peppers, and okra

At a time when natural, organic food is at a premium and we all want to know where our food comes from, a home vegetable garden is a no-brainer! Whether you live on a large piece of property or have a small spot in a community garden, you can reap the healthy, delicious rewards of growing and eating your own fresh vegetables.

Get started enjoying the benefits of a backyard garden with the expert advice inside Vegetable Gardening!

Carol Klein is a noted British gardening expert, author, and newspaper columnist, and host of the BBC's Gardener's World, among other television shows. She has written five books on gardening, with a focus on growing fruits and vegetables, and she is well known for her cottage gardens.