shericka burroughs
★★★★★
“Very very very awesome beginners gardening book! If your just starting out this is the book for you! Im a beginner myself. The way they break down everything is so easy to follow. Helped me alot. Great read!”
BENJAMIN GREENFIELD
PLANT, NOURISH, FLOURISH
About Benjamin Greenfield
Benjamin Greenfield is a vegetable gardener and the author of The Year-Round Vegetable Garden for Beginners. He grows on the small family farm in Oregon where he was born in 1965: no-dig raised beds, compost made on site, natural pest control instead of sprays, and a planting plan that follows the seasons.
He learned by being handed a hoe as a farm kid, and later by working alongside growers in Asia, South America and Europe. His one rule is balance: feed the soil and work with the land, not against it. On the blog he writes down what works on the farm, what fails, and why, one vegetable and one season at a time.
The Year-Round Vegetable Garden for Beginners
The Year-Round Vegetable Garden for Beginners: A Simple No-Dig Guide to a High-Yield Organic Harvest puts the method from the farm in the order a first-time grower needs it: planning and soil preparation, care profiles for the common vegetables, container and vertical growing for small spaces, water and organic soil management, natural pest control, and how to store and use the harvest. Written for people who have never grown a vegetable, and for people who have and lost it to slugs.
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Growing Brussels Sprouts: Sweeter After the First Frost
Nothing else in the vegetable garden asks for so much patience. Growing Brussels sprouts means giving one plant a bed for five or six months, watching it look like a scruffy cabbage on a stick for most of that time, and trusting that something will happen down at the stem. Then autumn arrives, the sprouts…
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First Frost Date: How to Find Yours and Protect Your Crops
Every fall garden runs on a single number, and most gardeners get it slightly wrong. The first frost date is not the day your season ends. It is a statistical marker, drawn from thirty years of weather records. It says nothing about what will happen in your backyard this October. Used properly, that number is…
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Curing Onions: How to Dry Bulbs That Store All Winter
There is a morning in late summer when the onion bed simply gives up. The tall green tops that stood upright through July fold over at the neck. A few go first, then most of them, and the bulbs stop swelling. That collapse is not a failure. It is the signal that the crop is…
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Bottom Watering Seedlings: The Best Way to Prevent Overwatering and Fungus Gnats
There is a quiet, profound pride in watching your first garden sprouts push their way through the dark soil. If you have carefully timed your indoor nursery, seeing those delicate green stems emerge feels like a massive victory. However, this early stage is also the most hazardous. Novice gardeners often kill their seedlings with kindness,…
What Readers Say
Verified Amazon reviews, quoted as they were written.
Julie Wade
★★★★★
“Very well written, easy to read and follow. Definitely a great book for if you are not familiar with gardening.”
GarageTinker
★★★★★
“For begginners but great information for all gardeners. Purchased to replace personal gardening library books damaged by insects while stored in a box in my garage.”
Bryan Wimmer
★★★★★
“Great book of you are starting out. Good price. Expect to purchase other books for greater detail.”
HuggedbyGrandma
★★★★☆
“I like the book, provided good insight for beginning gardening”
Christina S
★★★★★
“Lots of good information”
Rodney Mann
★★★★☆
“It’s a good book”
shericka burroughs
★★★★★
“Very very very awesome beginners gardening book! If your just starting out this is the book for you! Im a beginner myself. The way they break down everything is so easy to follow. Helped me alot. Great read!”
Julie Wade
★★★★★
“Very well written, easy to read and follow. Definitely a great book for if you are not familiar with gardening.”
GarageTinker
★★★★★
“For begginners but great information for all gardeners. Purchased to replace personal gardening library books damaged by insects while stored in a box in my garage.”
Bryan Wimmer
★★★★★
“Great book of you are starting out. Good price. Expect to purchase other books for greater detail.”
HuggedbyGrandma
★★★★☆
“I like the book, provided good insight for beginning gardening”
Christina S
★★★★★
“Lots of good information”
Rodney Mann
★★★★☆
“It’s a good book”