The Mother Earth News Guide To Vegetable Gardening: Building And Maintaining Healthy Soil * Wise Watering * Pest Control Strategies * Home Composting *

The Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardeningis a must have volume packed with time-tested information, photographs, and charming illustrations for home gardeners everywhere.

For years, millions of readers have turned to Mother Earth News fortrusted advice on growing vegetables and fruits.The Mother Earth News Guide to Vegetable Gardeningharnesses decades of wisdom, bringing together all the indispensabletechniques, completegrowing guides, helpful tips, useful photographs, and inspiring illustrations for which Mother Earth News is known.

Plan forself-sufficiencywith a garden focused on edibles! Choose from variety of plans for kitchen gardens, browse strategies for small space gardening, or up your gardening game by installing and maintaining permanent beds. Soil concerns? Get the dirt on building fertile soil, soil pH, compost, vermicompost--even biochar. Long-time gardeners are sure to find something new, fromvertical gardeningto plans forextending the seasons.

That's right, garden through the seasons withdozens of vegetable-and fruit-specific growing guides. Start with your favorites or learn to love something new (Asian greens or fruit trees, anyone?). In slower-growing or more challenging seasons, Mother Earth is there to help. Whether you need to know the best vegetables togrow in the shadeor the top gardening tips forsoil health in winter, this book has it all.