A truly comprehensive guide to growing great vegetables. A must-have volume for beginning gardeners. It gives time-tested tips and tricks for even experienced gardeners. I highly recommend this book.

My daddy could make a dead stick grow, so what was wrong with me? I could barely make any of my vegetables produce anything worth eating. But after reading this, I have great hope! With lush photography and plain-speak descriptions, the author guides the newbie gardener through all stages of planning, planting, nurturing, and harvesting his or her own vegetable garden for the first time. In this age of lockdowns, food, insecurity, food deserts, and a desire to not be so reliant on the food industry, this book is very well received and necessary. This is definitely going on my actual bookshelf. I gratefully received this e-book ARC from the author and publisher in exchange. for my unbiased review.

I received The Beginners's Guide to Growing Great Vegetables by Lorene Edwards Forkner for free from Net Galley. This book assumes you have limited knowledge of gardening.. It tells you how to plan and what to do each month. As a person who likes to plan, I like that part.. it then talks about vegetables usually 1-2 pages. It would be a great reference for a gardener. As it also gives ideas if you need more information. It also has a small index.
I would recommend to new gardeners and ones trying new vegetables.

If you enjoy growing your own food and knowing there are no toxins used because you control all stages, this book will help you. Become self-sufficient in providing your own food and help the community as well.

I found The Beginner's Guide to Growing Great Vegetables to be very informative and useful. I am an ammeter gardener and learned so much from this book that will benefit my garden! I think even experienced gardeners would benefit from some of the tips in this book. This book is nicely organized by zone and months for easy reference. It also has helpful tips included and how to jumpstart your garden season and what to grow together (and what do not like each other). Also, tips detailing water and soil issues that impact vegetable growth and garden success. I feel this book is a good resource for anyone who gardens!

This was a great guide for those interested in gardening! I took a lot of notes, and it was perfect for newbies, but I think anyone would get great information. Liked the photos a lot, too. Recommend for anyone trying to grow veggies!

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. I have been interested in growing my garden have never had much success. This was very informative!

The Beginner's Guide to Growing Great Vegetables by Lorene Edwards Forkner is a very informative book that will help you growing your own vegetables in no time! The book is organized into three sections: Getting Started, Get Planting, and Edibles A-Z. In Getting Started, Forkner covers gardening zones and the basics of gardening. In Get Planting, she outlines everything you need to do by each month of the year by your growing zones. In Edibles A-Z, you get a lot of information on vegetables and herbs and the best way to plant and harvest them.

Forkner covers a lot in her book that will be very helpful to anyone who has trouble growing their own vegetables. No land? No problem! This book also covers growing from your balcony! A very easy to follow guide book with colorful pictures that is perfect for novice gardeners! Recommended for anyone who needs that visual and step and by step guide to growing plants.

I enjoy reading new books on gardening. This book taught me some new skills that I am implementing in my garden!

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* 4.5 i normally kill any plant i get, no matter what i do, but i do enjoy reading gardening books and if i ever am feeling lucky, this is the book id have to buy to use as a guide for sure!!

This was a super easy-to-read and informative book that all gardeners should have on their shelves. I love how this book broke gardening down into easy-to-understand topics and really sets out to teach you, as the reader, versus just providing information. The photos are beautiful and really add the perfect touch to this book.

This book is a fantastic resource for beginners, with easy to follow step by steps and beautiful pictures throughout. I thought it was informative and interesting and the cover is gorgeous! While this may not contain novel information for the seasoned gardener, I feel that it is great for the novice, just as the title indicates.

Brilliant guide for the beginning gardener — everything you need to know, with colourful photos and an easy-to-read format.

The author is a recognized horticultural writer, editor, and blogger who offers good advice to new gardeners in a clear, easy-to-understand format. This book, however, is written with a temperate climate in mind. The author states that in October, the garden is put to bed. During that time the tropical/subtropical areas (almost half of the lower 48 United States), fall gardeners are ramping up their garden tasks with harvests from the August-September garden planting and starting their cool-weather gardens. This point-of-view diminishes other valuable insights to the year-round gardeners and makes the book reminiscent of a personal journal than an overall beginner’s guide.
This book offers month-by-month to-do lists for each month, making it a truly helpful beginner’s guide for temperate gardeners. The writer more specifically speaks to the Pacific Northwest U.S. gardeners, with seemingly, random, obligatory notes entered for the warmer temperate and subtropical gardeners. Overall, a very basic guide for a novice gardener.

As promised, this is a great beginning guide for beginners looking to start a garden of any size! It gives all the information you need to get started in the US no matter your region and gives a great list and growing conditions for starter crops.

THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GROWING GREAT VEGETABLES by Lorene Edwards Forkner is an extremely useful guide for beginning gardeners. The text begins with sections on Gardening in North America (with a map of climate zones and comments on microclimates); Gardening 101 which reviews the important components of sun, water and soil as well as gardening vocabulary; and Garden Planning (covering garden bed design, spacing, etc.). The text is then organized seasonally; I especially like that the various monthly chapters include a quick check list of what "to do this month," including planning, preparing and maintaining, and sowing and planting. New gardeners can also refer to a later section labeled "Edibles A to Z" which provides information on growing and harvesting and quick descriptions of varieties for over two dozen vegetables like eggplant, spinach and tomatoes. THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GROWING GREAT VEGETABLES received a starred review from Library Journal. I would heartily recommend this text for anyone who would like to experiment with growing their own healthy vegetables or learning more about topics like composting or about growing herbs, flowers, or fruit trees, all of which are discussed and beautifully illustrated. Forkner's manual is a valuable resource to consult again and again.

This book was received as an ARC from Timber Press in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I am learning how to grow my own garden and the specifics about choosing the right vegetables to plant in it and this book made it easy and answered a lot of my pressing gardening questions. I loved how this book was broken down and the photos and diagrams presented through each chapter. It's also nice to get some suggestive combinations not only to grow in your garden but, make healthy dishes that will guarantee to be fresh and delicious. No only will I consider this book for our library collection but, I will definitely invest in this book for my own personal collection and I can't wait to see the results for planting my garden.

We will consider adding this title to our Non-Fiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

I love the idea of growing my own food and loved this intro book. Informative and hopefully accurate, I'll let you know at the end of the season

Doesn't this cover call to you? If you have Kindle Unlimited you can get this book as part of your subscription. You will be inspired by the gorgeous photography throughout the book. The Beginners' Guide to Growing Great Vegetables i is packed with easy-to-access information to help anyone become a gardener. It includes explanations of planting zones, microclimates, how to kill pests with beer, and a month-by-month guide to starting a garden. It also includes instructions and tips for planting raised beds as well as containers and discusses using edibles as ornamentals. Why not have some beautiful kale in your front yard? It's pretty and tasty!

The book is filled with wonderful graphics to show you everything from how to lay out a garden, to DIY soil testing, and how to build a hoop house. In the past, I have purchased gardening books that I have opened and thumbed through and put aside because I felt overwhelmed by the content. This book is different, it's very beginner-focused focusing on why you will want to do certain things and when you will want to do them in order to grow vegetables in your backyard, front yard, or even on a balcony.

5 Stars- Comprehensive guide with a monthly planner!

This was a pretty decent resource, although I don't think it would be helpful for more seasoned gardeners. While I have attempted gardening in the past, I really am a beginner, and for the beginner, this really is a pretty good resource that gives you a broad overview of everything you would need to plan and start a garden, including extra resources depending on what you're interested in doing or what your needs are. I had never heard of lasagna gardening and I appreciated that even though the author is from the PNW, she included resources and things to consider if you were in other parts of the country. In the end, there is an extra section on specific (and the more common) edibles and things to consider for each of them. I only wish she had included ginger, although I know I could look that up on my own. Overall, I would say that after reading this book, I don't think my current circumstances are suited for gardening, partly because I really don't have time for it! But I do have some ideas of some things I might be able to do, even if it's just in pots. So I appreciated this book and ultimately, the author urges us to plan ahead and start small, even if it's just a pot garden with herbs and such.

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.