Grow Great Vegetables in Georgia

Grow Great Vegetables in Georgia 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 released by Timber press. Written by Ira Wallace, it's 252 pages and will be 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 Georgia, 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 southeast 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.

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

Where have these books been all my life? These simple little gardening books specific to my area to help me MAYBE grow something and stop me from slaughtering more innocent plants with my black thumb. This book is to the point and goes through gardening in Georgia from start to finish. So, where do you start? Well, the big three are soil, sunlight, and water. The book details the kinds of soils and how to improve them. Hint: compost. Mulch after you plant. Water when you need to not on a schedule. How much sunlight different plants need and whether they need morning or afternoon sunlight.
What makes this book the best is the charts that tells you what plants are easy to grow, what plants take more effort, what plants need more room, what plants are the most challenging and the seasons. I will of course plant only from the easy column. I also value the chapter on container planting. Also, valuable is the month by month checklist for getting things done. Lucky for me it is the first of May and we still sort of quarantining or actually waiting around to see what the virus will do while Georgia opens up so what better way to stay active than read this book and complete the Nay checklist and plant a few vegetables on the easy list. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review.