Grow Great Vegetables in Pennsylvania
by Marie Iannotti
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Pub Date 16 Apr 2019 | Archive Date 23 Apr 2019
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Description
Grow Great Vegetables in Pennsylvania is the ultimate guide to growing food in the Keystone State! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists explain what to do from January through December. In-depth profiles of fifty best edibles help ensure a can’t-miss harvest.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781604698848 |
PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 244 |
Featured Reviews
This is a fantastic gardening book, and the rest of the series looks great too! PA is such a huge state, so the fact that the author took the time to break each area down into different planting zones is wonderful!
This book is a great reference for anyone wanting to grow the most ideal vegetables for the PA area. I found many useful tips and tricks, as well as information on what plants would do best in your backyard garden or hobby farm. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to grow vegetables, whether they live in PA or the surrounding areas that may also have a similar climate. This book is great for the beginning novice or seasoned gardener. I am sure I will come back to this book many times over the years to come!
Great information for learners and as a reference book for experienced growers. It is tailored to Pennsylvania planting..
With great pictures and graphs, it covers frost dates, planting and harvest goals. It also covers pest control, trellis planting, soil amendment, companion planting and irrigation in easy to grasp, clear writing.
It is a smart place to start if you want a high yield
I requested this book as an ARC from Netgalley and recommend it to anyone who is interested in growing their own food.
Grow Great Vegetables in Pennsylvania 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 specific guides (MA, NY, NJ and PA) released by Timber press. Written by Marie Iannotti, it's 244 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.
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 Pennsylvania, as well as a very general gardening introduction.
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 varieties which will thrive in your area.
There's a resource list (slanted to readers in the mid-Atlantic region), 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.
Five stars. Very well done.
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