Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens

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• Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens by Barbara Pleasant
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Please fill out the copyright form to register a complaint. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Read reviews that mention garden gardening gardener ideas helpful starting plan beginner gardeners library beginners tips beginning bags experienced pictures plant soil useful vegetables. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I love this gardening book. I have had a variety of gardens in my life, but they have almost always been haphazard. My first was a plot in the college community garden, a free-flowing, random, weed-choked wilderness created by well-meaning hippies with lots of enthusiasm but no knowledge.

Some years later, I moved to a farm and started something way too ambitious for a near-beginner, resulting in overwork and frustration. Since then I've had several different herb and flower gardens, usually initiated when I have been given plants by kind friends and needed to dig a place to plant them, pronto. I've tried borders, raised beds, all sorts of beds, and my efforts to alter and rearrange and improve these over the years have created more chaos than beauty. Needless to say, none of these gardens was a great success, and all for the same reason: I WANTED to plan-- but most of the books I've looked to for guidance were way too ambitious, making gardening seem like an inherently overwhelming task that was never going to bring me the peaceful hours outdoors, the beauty, or the bounty or produce that I yearned for.

It felt more like blood, sweat, and tears.

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It's especially shameful because I'm both an herbalist and a great cook, yet I've been a total flop as a gardener! Then I found this book. It's the perfect book for someone like me to step back, take a breath, and start anew. Forget all those failed gardens, and those hefty books filled with complicated garden designs that I would never be able to execute much less afford. This book reeeaaallly simplifies gardening for the beginner though there are a few plans for more experienced folk. I have decided to consider myself a rank beginner, and start over with this book. It's not just a feel-good pep talk.

The book truly is laid out very simply. Several basic plans are given: Several other plans are given for different climates, or different specialty gardens such as the Cajun Spice garden-- tempting-- and more. For each garden plan, you are told step by simple step what to do. You are told exactly what to buy. You are guided through the whole season.

The best part is, each garden starts off modestly the first year as you get your bearings, and expands in years two and three until you have a fully-established garden. It might seem that being told exactly what to plant where would squelch creativity. But for another thing, when you know why each type of plant has been chosen for a particular spot in the garden, that makes EASIER to substitute, should you want to, with a plant having similar properties.

The book is full of very good colored drawings and photographs. The one thing lacking is something I'd really like to see: The absence of such photos makes me wonder if the author actually planted each of these gardens. But even if she did not, it does not invalidate the book; no doubt she has combined elements of real gardens from real experience.

Her experience is obvious throughout the book and she gives lots of helpful advice. But not too much. Because the beauty of this book is that it's not overwhelming. This year, I finally have an understandable, workable garden plan, and I'm just waiting for the weather to warm up a bit to put it into action!

Great for Garden Newbies. My family and I are starting our first vegetable garden this summer For this price, this book is a fantastic find! The pages are beautiful. It's a joy to read and glance at.

I'm a planner and an organizer and this book helps me with exactly that! I love, love, love how the author takes the garden plans and breaks them down into 3 year task lists and tells you specifically WHAT to do for each plant and at which time. I would definitely buy this again and I HIGHLY recommend this for anyone just starting out or for anyone wanting a new, beautiful book, full color, photos, high quality papers, tips, FYIs, that's well-written.

I would even give this book as a gift! Originally checked this book out from the library and renewed it twice it was so helpful to me as a brand new gardener. Lots of pictures and tips and stays away from becoming droll. My family can probably blame this book for turning me into the garden nerd I am now. This is a very helpful book. I always wanted a garden but I do not have a green thumb. I followed the directions for the black bag with my first garden and everything I planted blossomed.

My husband thought I was crazy but it worked! The following year I bought a rotter tiller and expanded my garden and my tomato plants were 5 feet high!!! You will not be disappointed with this book.

This year I plan to try canning my tomatoes. One person found this helpful. We are getting ready to buy our forever home and I would like a garden. This book is perfect for helping figure out how to start one. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Develop your green thumb as you learn to grow your own food.

In this introductory guide to growing vegetables, Barbara Pleasant addresses common problems that first-time gardeners encounter. Using simple language and illustrated garden layouts, Pleasant shows you how to start, maintain, and eventually expand an organic vegetable garden in even the tiniest backyard. With ha Develop your green thumb as you learn to grow your own food.

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Lists with This Book. Oct 26, Scott Silver rated it it was amazing. Great book to aid in home gardening and planning your veggie rotations. Jun 07, Suzanne rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book grows with you, plans for first, second and third year gardens! She assumes you will do all the work yourself, and that you actually want to eat what you produce.

I kept reading it going Barbara Pleasant has written the book I need, she brought all of the ideas into a complete system. I am stealing her "Family Food Factory" title these are her big producing gardens in the middle of the book for my own FFF! Feb 28, Julia rated it really liked it Shelves: This book lays out a very nice range of garden plans, including ones for beginners and very small gardens, to huge gardens for pros.

Most are multi-year plans, a huge plus, so that you learn as you go. Includes detailed lists for supplies, seeds, and plants for every project, a timeline, and how-to info. Additional sections on organic gardening in general. A great resource if you don't know how to start, or if you need to have the possibilities reigned in that's me! Apr 02, Erin rated it it was amazing Shelves: A beautiful book with lots of suggestions for different combinations of plants and a variety of layouts.

I love that the book will grow along with my gardening expertise! I prepared my beds yesterday, and I'm planting today: Feb 08, Jared Reck rated it really liked it.

Great guide for those looking to dig a little deeper. See what I did there? Feb 09, Patricia Kaniasty rated it it was amazing. Looks like this will work out very good.

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Learned a bunch of new things and am already to start my new garden come spring. Feb 25, Renee rated it it was ok. This is a great book for someone who wants to use a lot of green space for an attractive, progressive garden. I prefer to have the traditional garden where there isn't grass to mow between rows. Apr 29, Bird rated it it was amazing Shelves: Who knew I could get so excited about a gardening book?

But I'm definitely excited, because this book is just what I was looking for as we begin our first foray into vegetable gardening. The book has multiple options for gardeners from growing veggies right out of bags of soil, to a "Family Food Factory" , depending on how much time and space you have to devote to taking care of your new garden.

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Each option also features three years' worth of plans, so you can slowly expand your garden over tim Who knew I could get so excited about a gardening book? Each option also features three years' worth of plans, so you can slowly expand your garden over time. Great for newbies like me who may be likely to bite off more than they can chew the first year. The book is very visual, which I loved. Seeing the gardening plans laid out, including how much space to devote to different plants, will be helpful as we begin planning how to incorporate veggies into our current backyard garden.

The plans give great details about what to plant when, and how to easily move from spring to summer to fall crops. In the back of the book, there's a section devoted to vegetables and their needs, and in it the author includes her personal choices for which varieties work best for beginners. This was really helpful for me, as I've recently gotten two seed catalogs, only to be completely overwhelmed with the number of choices for each veggie tomatoes in particular are a doozy The book also includes basic gardening information, ways to prepare the soil for planting, and tips on how to support heavy plants.

Experienced gardeners may roll their eyes at this, but for a newbie, this information is invaluable. One small, minor, teensy caveat The book doesn't claim to include fruits, and I understand that the logistics of growing fruits are quite different, given that most are perennials. I would have loved to see some information on them, though. This was a library book, but I plan on buying my own copy soon so I'll have it around to reference throughout our veggie gardening adventures!

Feb 11, Trace rated it it was amazing. Apr 25, Barb rated it really liked it Shelves: I'm feeling ready to go beyond adding a few vegies to my flower garden. Last year the cucumbers weren't as good as the year prior, but I did forget to mention watering the garden before I went on vacation But the beans were a lot of fun to grow. I like the process more than the product, so that is probably why I haven't done too much with vegies.

This book is very informative and motivating. I'm going to try the gardening straight out of the soil bags. Much easier than breaking new ground. E I'm feeling ready to go beyond adding a few vegies to my flower garden. Even got some seeds ordered.