Don't Throw In the Trowel: Vegetable Gardening Month by Month: 1 (Easy-Growing Gardening)

At last help for home food gardeners. The simple month-by-month layout of Dont Throw in the Trowel will help gardeners grow a bounty of vegetables fruits and herbs. Grow luscious tomatoes zucchini cucumbers melons and more and enjoy all the fresh produce (and give the surplus to family and friends) that your garden grows using these easy tips. Dont Throw in the Trowel: A Month-by-Month Vegetable Gardening Guide is a fun read for every locavore who wants to cart tomatoes out of the garden by the wagonful.Even if youve never been a farmer or a gardener before this vegetable gardening book covers everything you need to know to get started. Here you can find specific information about starting seeds transplanting mulching organic fertilizers dealing with pest and disease problems compost and of course information about different vegetables and helpful advice on how to grow them. You can also find information about square foot gardening beneficial insects (and insect pests) easy ways to keep weeds down and ways to extent the growing season into the winter months using cold frames and floating row covers.Whats more the methods used in this book are those to save time (and your poor back and joints). Gardening can hurt sometimes - as the author can attest after having been felled by a bad back during her horticulturing days. This book is full of ways to keep you from ending up the way she did. Many organic methods actually help make gardening easier. For instance putting down a thick layer of mulch early in the year helps you keep weeds down reduce watering add organic matter to the soil and keep the plants cool in the summer heat. Grow heirloom vegetables for a reliable colorful crop - and you can keep using the seeds from these plants years after year.Dont Throw In the Trowel! guides the Midwest gardener month by month through the many gardening tasks that need to be done. This book helps you be more effective plots out your month-by-month to-do list and keeps you up to speed. Melinda R. Cordell has worked in horticulture half her life including a stint as city horticulturist in St. Joseph Missouri.