Just like many gardening enthusiasts, I have way too many gardening books. There is just something seductive about them. But, truthfully, I find myself actually using only a few of them.
This is a huge favorite . . .
Now, don’t get stopped by the reference to special self-watering containers. I usually get stopped by that kind of thing. I don’t want to go out and search for hard-to-find pots. But I powered through that and read this book anyway. It was wonderfully informative – the most I have ever learned from a single gardening book – and everything was applicable to a plain container as well.
The difference? More watering. I never realized that a full grown tomato plant needs a gallon of water per day!
My plants are located right outside the kitchen door – and so is the hose – so frequent watering was not a challenge for me.
But if you think self-watering containers would be better for you, there are sources given for finding them.
This 250 page book is full of illustrations and photographs and is beautifully designed for ease of reference.
This book turned me into a successful vegetable gardener, and I highly, highly recommend it.
If you go to Amazon, you can see more of the inside pages, table of contents, etc. – and you can actually read these two pages I have shown here.
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Thanks for posting about this book – can’t wait to check it out!
A gallon a day! Wow. I think I’ve underwatered them every time I’ve tried them. I’d love to have some homegrown ones again. They really are so much better than anything you can buy. Same with cucumbers.