The New Vegetable Growers Handbook: A Users Manual for the Vegetable Garden

About this book

The New Vegetable Growers Handbook is an updated version of Frank Tozers acclaimed book The Vegetable Growers Handbook. Like the original it covers every aspect of growing all of the common crops (and a number of uncommon ones). As a long-time home gardener the author knows exactly what information you need to succeed and presents it in a clear thorough and even entertaining fashion. There are step-by-step instructions on soil preparation variety selection raising transplants direct sowing watering protection harvesting storage seed saving and much more. He doesnt just tell you what to do and when to do it he also tells you why by explaining in detail how crops grow and why they sometimes dont. The original book received high marks from reader reviewers with comments like "fantastic " "my gardening bible " and "this book provides more detailed and easy-to-read information on individual crops than any other gardening book Ive seen." This new revised edition has been expanded by 50 percent with more information on more crops with the aim of creating the most useful and practical book on vegetable gardening available anywhere.