This reads as a book for slightly more advanced gardeners who have the space to have a larger garden area and a larger work space. She includes charts in the back of the book for planting dates and harvesting for the vegetables. I like that she has chapters for each month of the year, breaking down what you should be working on during that time. I wish I had the space she has for her gardens. There are maps included to show which zone you live in. Wisconsin is zone 4 and 5 with a little bit of zone 3. Minnesota is zone 3 and zone 4 with a little of zone 5. There is a bit of information about the different soil types that you will find in your backyard and a test so you can figure out what you have. The book has a lot of information and could be a good guide to have on hand when you’re planning and working in your garden.

Even if I don't live in one of the two states I live in similar zone and I can confirm that this is a very useful, informative, and easy to follow guide, a great reference if you want to grow vegetables in a certain area.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Timber Press Publishing for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I requested this book to review because I am an avid gardener living in Minnesota. As someone who has read many books on gardening, I am always looking for new ones to devour. The best part of this book for me was that it was specifically for gardening in the part of the country that I live in. I appreciated that there was information for the zone that I garden in and tips for growing in our challenging climate that not all gardening books address (short growing season and winter planning for instance).

I highly recommend this book to both beginning and experienced gardeners living in Minnesota and Wisconsin for a month-to-month guide for growing and maintenance as well as beautiful photos and informative charts and graphs.

Grow Great Vegetables in Minnesota & Wisconsin is a regionally tailored home gardening guide for producing vegetables for taste and nutrition and to increase self-reliance and food security. This is one of a series of regionally/state specific guides released & reformatted by Timber press. Edited by Bevin Cohen, it's due out in May 2023, runs 212 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. It's based on an earlier release Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest by Michael VanderBrug, reformatted and edited for MN & WI gardeners. All of the guides in this series follow the same format.

This guide is arranged by seasons with a chapter for each month. The introductory chapter (~13% of the page content) covers garden planning, climates and subzones in MN & WI, as well as very general gardening advice. Worth noting that a majority of the content of the books in this series based on/edited from the same volume (in this case Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest) contain overlapping information and there are only slight differences in content and recommendations.

The monthly sections include tasks for each month, potential problems and troubleshooting, planning and placement of the garden plot, harvesting and more.

The third section of the book is a regional guide to choosing vegetables and specific varieties which will thrive in the area.

There's a resource list (slanted to readers in the Midwest), a bibliography and further reading list, USDA based hardiness zonal map, and an index. The photography is crisp, clear, and abundant. This is a well crafted book which will provide gardeners with hours of blissful dreaming as well as serving as a valuable troubleshooting guide. For readers who have the aforementioned Gardening in the Midwest, much of the content is verbatim here. For readers unfamiliar with the earlier title, there's a lot of worthwhile info here.

Four stars. Very well done.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

This series of books is cut and pasted for all the midwest states, with just a handful of pages changed. I have read this one and the Michigan one cover to cover and almost all of it is absolutely identical -- the intro about what it's like to live in the state (literally, it's a whole page about how great the state is and they just change the state name and leave all the same descriptions in), photos, monthly guide, etc.

I am in MN and found that parts of it are just completely off for our state. For instance, it says to harvest asparagus in March. That had me literally laughing out loud. We're buried in snow in March and even when we have unseasonable warmth or lack of snow, we have never had asparagus ready in the garden in March. We harvest our asparagus in May, every single year. Likewise, it says to purchase tomato seedlings in April if you haven't started them yourself. That is way too early to buy seedlings, since we don't have our last frost until way into May. You'd be keeping seedlings inside for over a month, almost two, or you'd lose them to frost.

I felt a bit duped by the title, thinking that it was written by an author who gardens in my state. This series really should have been one book, Grow Great Vegetables in the Midwest, and then added the few pages showing the maps with zones and the list of a handful of cities average frost dates that are shoehorned in. I have no idea what state the author really lives in, since it's kept deliberately very vague. I'm fairly positive it's not Minnesota though.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.