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I need a recommendation for a beginner gardening book.?
I live on 1/2 an acre so I have plenty of room. My parents always had a garden but that was 20+ years ago and I didn’t know much back then.
I’m wanting to grow tomatoes, chives, herbs, squash, spinach, asparagus, peas, green beans, onions, garlic, strawberries, bell peppers, potatoes, carrots, corn, and soybeans.
Thanks for your help.
You’ll need at least three gardening books. Everything you mentioned is considered a ‘farm vegetable’ so you’ll need a good book on general vegetable gardening … did you know if you plant your radishes under roses, both the radishes and the roses will grow better and healthier? Did you know you can use both the petals and the ‘hips’ of roses in cooking? I found this out from my first general vegetable gardening book. You’ll also want a ‘zone specific’ gardening book (are you sure that where you live can support growth of all you’ve mentioned?), and a book on garden planning and decorating. Get the books as soon as possible, because you’ll want to have your garden ‘planned’ and know what you’ll want to start in pots indoors early. Spring is for digging and getting dirty. Winter is for dreaming about spring and summer. Autumn is for harvesting (but you’ll want to harvest the asparagus in the late spring and early summer, and perhaps plant a second crop). Go to Amazon.com and do a search to find the available books, buy the best you can (most books have ‘excerpts’ you can read on this website) then get the books. I won’t recommend any specific books to you, because that is the first part of the fun of becoming a gardener. And don’t forget to plant some flowers, too … they’ll help your vegetables and your vegetables will help them. I had approximately a quarter acre and ‘interplanted’ the vegetables with the flowers, and put the ‘kid friendly’ plants along the paths. My kids would get hungry when they were out playing and just be able to reach up from their ‘tipi’ and eat a few raw beans (green, yellow), or take a walk over the bridge to eat some strawberries, some blueberries, or pull up a few carrots! Yes, my kids ate their veg and still do … because they watched them grow. Good luck, have fun, and realize the garden isn’t going to be perfect … and planning next year’s garden is going to be even more fun!
Herb Gardening For Beginners – Best Herbs For An Organic Garden
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Bonsai for the Beginner [VHS] $16.94 … |
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Gardening Tips for Beginners $8.99 … |
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Garden Fitness with Blanche Black – Yoga $1.99 … |
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Garden Fitness with Blanche Black – Yoga $9.99 … |
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High Times Growers Series: Jorge Cervantes’ Ultimate Grow DVD $9.40 Indoor Marijuana Horticulture Step-by-step instructions for beginners Hydro and advanced techniques How to make your own hash Running Time over 100 minutes!… |
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Homesteading for Beginners Volume One DVD $18.95 Journey with this city-gone-country family as they share with you some basic homesteading skills that anyone can master. In this DVD you will learn everything from gardening, milking a cow, raising chickens, to making butter and cheese…. |
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Audubon Butterfly DVD Essentials for Beginners and Gardeners $29.46 Audubon Butterfly DVD Essentials for Beginners and Gardeners has everything the budding lepidopterist needs to begin identifying the common butterflies found across the United States. Included is an easy-to-understand introduction to butterfly biology, butterfly lifecycles and behavior, as well as identification sections covering 30 of our most common species. Each butterfly species has its own fa… |
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Gathering A Garden Board Game $9.79 This luscious game is a breath of fresh air! Take a trip round to each vendor to gather some flowers, vegetables and more for your bounty of garden delights. Hurry around to every vendor, so you can be a garden tender. Get your flower, herb and tree, vegetable and bird. (They’re free!) Your garden is completely done? Get home first, and you have won! Made of 75% recycled materials No plastics!… |
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Seedling Junior Gardening Set $25.50 Even if you don’t think you have a green thumb, you will be amazed at how easy it is to grow these flowers. So, prepare to get your hands dirty. Dig, plant and care for your young seedlings and watch your flowers bloom. Junior Gardening Kit Kit Contains: 3 piece tool set with wooden handles, terracotta pot, marigold seeds, chilren’s garden gloves and instructions. Ages: 3-8… |
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Children’s Arts & Crafts Origami Making Creative Gift Set ft. Dinosaurs $8.99 Create your fun dinosaur world withh the printed dinosaur patterns paper. This kit contains a pop up play mat of prehistoric scene, more than 30 sheets of pattern papers for making 5 different dinosaurs, eyes sticker sheet and details instructions. Ages 3 & up… |