This is a fantastic gardening book with everything that beginners need to know but also lots to please seasoned gardeners. It's full of fantastic photos and has projects, detailed information on how to grow all different crops, and lots more. One small note-- he says you can use any container to grow veggies as long as you can put dirt in it. Plant roots will pull up nutrients from the soil but can also draw out any toxins that are in your container or its coating. Watch out for things like lead-based finishes, non-foodsafe plastics, tires, etc.

All in all this was a fun and helpful read that has me already impatient for spring.

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

The book starts slow with lots of broad statements but soon the author offers many practical beginner tips. I was impressed by the sections to make your own fertilizer and use hay bales for gardening, two suggeations I had not read in any other gardening books!

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Special thanks to NetGalley and Storey publishing for providing me with ARC.

I love garding and planting so much, i tried before and loved it so much.

This book give me a lot of ideas about growing vegetables and fruits and also made me realize many mistakes i do before.

This book will be treasured by beginners! It contains so many wonderful ideas for starting a garden. From what you should grow (including Ben’s top 10 favorites) to where (in a pot, basket, raised bed or even a trash can!). The photography is beautiful. The directions are clear and straight-forward. Even the seasoned garden might find herself inspired to try beets, Swiss chard and cucamelons – wink, wink!

The book includes a variety of gardening projects. Again, the directions are clear and supported by beautiful photography. Projects include fields of wildflowers, how to build a bug hotel, how to cultivate worms, growing in hay bales, and growing vertically. But my favorite project idea is how to create your own liquid fertilizer! Very interesting!

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Great guide for beginners, with some useful information and cool project ideas for non-beginners as well.

As a beginner gardener, I'm always looking for tips and tricks to getting a better harvest and improving my gardening techniques. GrowVeg is a Beginner's Guide to Easy Vegetable Gardening. Sounded like a perfect fit! The book begins by covering gardening basics and moves into a section on dependable favorites for a great place to start. Growing in small spaces is also discussed and includes ways to grow fruit trees in small spaces. The author includes how to grow in different containers, even growing carrots in a basket! I loved the advice on converting lawn to a wildflower meadow. The author even includes a section on growing indoors - it's not just about sprouts! This book would be a great gift for the new gardener!

Thank you to Storey Publishing and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

GrowVeg is an informative gardening book for beginners. I didn’t find the first section on Gardening basics particularly inspirational. I did really like the simple project that are suggested towards the middle of the book. This section is really where the book hit its stride. The projects that are included make the book unique and the instructions are clear and easy to follow. I also like the section about pollinators which I think could have been expanded upon even more. The books lacks specifics occasionally. It would be nice to know what went into the colorful salad or what sort of flowers make up the pollinator patch. Overall a good book, not entirely original but interesting enough to warrant reading.

so much information . I was so excited to get this book. I have learned so much already. Well-done. I am excited to grow

GrowVeg! is a comprehensive and fun tutorial primer aimed at new gardeners written by Benedict Vanheems. Due out 2nd March 2021 from Storey, it's 200 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

Given the state of the world, the themes of food security, healthy outdoor activity, mental health, healthy eating, exercise, and mindful productive lives seem more critically important than in any other time in recent memory. We can't travel, many of us can only recently go outside into our own gardens, so there's a boom in new gardeners.

This is a superlative first gardening book. It's laid out logically, it's written in good accessible layman language, it's not overly complex or full of impenetrable overwhelming information for the average reader. The chapters are arranged in a nice progression, from the very basics of why garden, to how to get started, container gardening, starting slow and building on successes to build confidence and learning, through what and how to choose varieties for different purposes. The author presents lots of options for gardening from containers to beds so that (pretty much) anyone can succeed with gardening.

After the introductory chapter, the following chapters expand on the initial info by adding proven varieties for production and taste, planning and gardening in small spaces, emphasizing and utilizing nature to support pollinators and indigenous plants. There are also chapters on indoor gardening, and focus drawing features for outdoor gardens (including a really good tutorial on making and using straw bale gardens). It includes some lovely photography, both of the plants covered and some garden shots in situ. I liked that the bulk of the book is arranged around short achievable tutorials for a myriad of gardening tasks and presentations.

Very very well done. Five stars. There's a lot of info here for more advanced gardeners as well as beginners.

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

I'm in the middle of revamping my garden to give me space to plant vegetables and this book was really helpful in the regard. It's really given me the inspiriation to proceed, and I look forward to be able to plant and eat my own vegetables!

GrowVeg is a really neat beginners' guide to growing vegetables. It covers both where to grow (the ground, raised beds, pots, bags, etc.), and what to start with - with notes on what likes to be in the sun, in shade, in warmer or cooler climate.
Most of the included vegetables are also quite popular, so it's easy to imagine how you'll eat them once they grow, while some sound more exotic than a lychee - cucamelon, for example.
All around interesting book with a lot of useful information, presented with a lot of pictures and clear instructions.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

Thank you to the publisher for an advance copy of this book via netgalley!

Due to covid, I started gardening this year for the first time. Disclaimer I read a lot about gardening due to that. I was a bit skeptical whether this book would capture my interest or just be another typical how to garden guide. I was very pleasantly surprised, this book is great!! It’s a book about gardening simply aka how to garden in a simple way but in a beautiful and creative way! I can’t wait to plant a mix salad basket and perhaps even try my hands on a carrot and radish basket! Simple, easy tricks on how and when to plant, but filled with pics results that look like you are an expert gardener!

An easy guide for beginners to plant their own veg. It mentiond things that I would not have thought of, for example, examining the cost of veg, and choosing that veg to plant according to how much they are going to cost, e g carrots are cheap and plentiful, so why plant them if you have limited space especially. I really loved this book, and will consult it often, as a reference book, as well as an instruction manual. Highly recommended to all who want to grow their own fruit and veg, but have no idea whete to begin.

Wow! This was an amazing read! The clear and simple instructions together with stunning pictures made me wish it was spring all the time so that I could plant all the time. What I really enjoyed in this book is how it has pretty much everything in it a small-scale home gardener needs to know.

There are the easy plants anyone can grow, more advanced and needy ones, but also plants growing in pots and raised beds, and how to make your own bug hotel. Very good information for anyone overwhelmed with it all, because there are so many possibilities and challenges, but with this guide it will be easier.

I have already laid plans for myself what to do, and thanks to this book I also realize a few things I’ve done wrong and hopefully next time around I can grow some planes I haven’t succeeded with before. Even if you’re a seasoned gardener I think you’ll get something out of this book, at least some new ideas, but for a beginner or struggling gardener this is a must-read!