Vegetable Gardening, Gardening Techniques, Tools, & Tricks, Herb Gardening, Garden Types & Seasonal Gardens, Organic Gardening
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Overview
Everyone loves garden-fresh vegetables, but who has the time or energy to grow their own? You do—if you adopt Tom and Marty's tried-and-true schemes and tricks for 20-minute vegetable gardening.
They'll help you create from scratch a ready-to-plant garden in less than two hours, and then help you choose the easiest, most rewarding plants for your region and your tastes. You'll learn tips for winning the neighborhood tomato contest and how to turn a stack of old tires into an heirloom potato patch. Discover the perennial vegetables you plant once and harvest for years, and claim as your own the recipes for Brighton Beach borscht, Japanese radish pickle, and sweet- potato pie. Encouraging, practical, and always unexpected, The 20-Minute Vegetable Gardener means liberation for home growers everywhere.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
A humorous book about vegetable gardening would seem to be an oxymoron, but the zany wit in this book will appeal to both doers and dreamers in the gardening world. Continuing the friendly rivalry and practical philosophy of The 20-Minute Gardener, Christopher and Asher (dubbed the "Click and Clack" of gardening) embark on a path of easy vegetable production. They intersperse a wealth of practical advice with a friendly narrative peppered with comments about neighbors, family and each other's foibles. A 10-point advice guide sets the tone of the book: for example, the authors wisely put forth that any vegetable grown by a 20-minute-a-day gardener is only valuable if it offers a significant improvement over the store-bought alternative, and they point out that they don't weed: "only the hyperactive and the truly stupid try to outwit nature." Suggestions for high-impact vegetables and how to plant and cultivate them are followed by tips for soil maintenance, harvesting and even favorite recipes for both common and unusual vegetables. Sources for heirloom plants and seeds complete this book that reads as easily as a novel but offers as much information as any valuable reference book. (Feb.)Library Journal
Horticulturist Christopher and Vintage Books editor-in-chief Asher, authors of The 20-Minute Gardener (LJ 1/97), tell how to grow vegetables by gardening an average of 20 minutes per day. Packed with humor and easy-to-understand advice, their book covers chemical-free vegetable gardening basics and provides complete cultural information for vegetables and herbs worth growing by time-pressed gardeners. Instructions for 20 20-minute projects range from how to grow sprouts indoors to an easy way to grow potatoes using discarded car tires. To help guarantee success, the authors list recommended vegetable varieties for various climates, including sources for seeds and plants. While gardening purists may prefer Jacqueline Heriteau's Ortho's Complete Guide to Vegetables (LJ 7/97), this book, which includes recipes, is a pleasure to read and would be a good choice for both beginners and experienced gardeners who want to save time. Recommended for public libraries.--Sue O'Brien, Downers Grove P.L., ILBook Details
Published
February 1, 1999
Publisher
New York : Random House, 1999.
Pages
284
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780679448150