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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil Paperback – Illustrated, December 2, 2009

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Smith’s legendary high-yield gardening method emphasizes wide rows, organic methods, raised beds, and deep soil. Succeed with fussy plants, try new and unusual varieties, and learn how to innovatively extend your growing season. With thorough profiles of hundreds of popular varieties, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible provides expert information and an inspiring roadmap for gardeners of all skill levels to enjoy abundant homegrown vegetables.
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Ed Smith Garden Grow Classic

Garden Grow Vegetables

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Grow more with less work

That’s the promise of gardener Ed Smith’s trusted gardening guide. First published in 2009 and an enduring reference for gardeners of all levels, this handbook offers essential, in-depth information on using wide, deep raised beds and organic methods resulting in bountiful harvests.

Gentle on Plants and the Planet

Smith’s approach to a healthy, high-yield vegetable garden relies on effective natural techniques for everything from creating nutrient-rich soil through composting and cover crops to managing weeds and pests through attracting beneficial insects and companion planting.

From Artichokes to Watermelons

A-Z vegetable profiles reveals the strengths, weaknesses, and needs of varieties of crops, and outlines where, when, and how to sow and plant each one. Advice on harvesting and storage give you the information you need to plan your best vegetable garden yet!

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More from Storey Grow tomatoes on a patio or broccoli on a balcony with this comprehensive guide to selecting the right plants and containers, controlling pests without chemicals, planning small-space container gardens for urban and suburban settings, and more. This complete resource covers everything backyard gardeners need to know to successfully grow fruit and nuts at home, from choosing the best varieties to planting, pruning, protecting from wildlife, and harvesting. In this beautifully illustrated, browsable handbook, bite-size wisdom, insider tips, and inspiring words from fellow growers highlight the pleasures of every aspect of vegetable gardening, from composting to starting peas and making carrot pesto. Put that backyard to work! Plant, grow, harvest, cook, brew, keep animals, make cheese, preserve fresh produce, gather eggs and honey, make sausage, and much more on just one-quarter acre — the how-to is all here for the enterprising homesteader. Plant parsley and asparagus together to have more of each. But keep broccoli and tomatoes apart or they won’t thrive. This classic companiongardening guide shows how to use the native attributes of plants to create a naturally bountiful garden.

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Grow Your Best Vegetables!
Join Ed Smith and hundreds of thousands of happy gardeners who are using the W-O-R-D system to grow their own delicious, abundant, organic vegetables. Already loved for its friendly advice, vegetable-specific information, and unwavering commitment to organic methods, American's best-selling vegetable-gardening book now covers more plants and offers smart new solutions for small-space and extended-season gardening.
  • Try new and unusual varieties, page 222
  • Grow the best tomatoes, page 307
  • Succeed with fussy plants, page 223
  • Master succession planting, page 49
  • Enjoy a bountiful harvest, page 106

About the Author

Edward C. Smith is the best-selling author of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible and The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible. For more than 30 years he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived off the grid in Vermont, in a house they built on land they cleared by hand. Together, the grow more than 100 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in their 2,000 square feet of gardens and containers.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC; 2nd edition (December 2, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 160342475X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1603424752
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.98 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1 x 11 inches
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Edward C. Smith is the author of Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers. He tends a garden of over 1,500 square feet filled with raspberries, blueberries, flowers, herbs, and nearly 100 varieties of vegetables, including some heirlooms, in his home state of Vermont.

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Awesome book for a veggie gardener!
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Awesome book for a veggie gardener!
I actually went through all two books in one day! (Gardener's Bible and Container Bible). Very informative. My veggie garden was ruined last spring as I moved compost bin next to the veggie garden. I was putting almost everything in there and I believe some pests made a home out of it. All veggies were destroyed...I also planted all very early in comparison to my neighbors garden- so pests found a nice treat early on and others had nice veggies through out the growing season. This time im planning to grow all from seeds (even watermelon that Smith advises you how to do it properly!). And I also found out that eggplant is the best to grow in a container (im zone 6b) . I planted eggplants in the veggie garden before and nothing came out.
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T-Man
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference Book
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2024
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This is the book that got me started with raised bed vegetable gardening so I purchased it as a gift for a newly-minted gardener. The subject matter is thorough and organized exceptionally well. I still find myself referring back to it from time to time. Highly recommended!
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Carine
5.0 out of 5 stars So informative!
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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Holy grail gardening book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Black-Thumb Learned to Grow a Self-Sufficient Family Garden with this Book!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2014
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I gotta tell ya... I have no idea what I'm doing. Let me start by saying how I came to find this book; I am a mother of two little boys and lost my mother to breast cancer at a young age. The food I buy at the grocery store, no matter how thoroughly I read the label I know will always have something I don't want in it. I put an exhausting amount of effort into thinking about the food my family eats but sometimes it's just so overwhelming, I give up and just order a pizza. Sounds off topic but that is how I landed on this book, I was exhausted and feeling like nothing I could ever buy would truly be a healthy option to feed my family and steer away from harmful cancer-causing chemicals in our food. So, I went to the internet to search for something to help my black-thumb and figure out how to provide the healthiest food for my family, without breaking the bank. Like I mentioned before I have no idea what I'm doing. I come from the school of thought that if I kill my flowers, I just run down to the store and buy new pretty flowers and throw away the old ones I killed and replace with new said flowers. Happy day. Well, that doesn't really work when you're trying to actually produce a harvest of some kind...

I have been reading this book for months and I started by dog-earing pages that were helpful... Don't do it. I soon realized I was dog-earing every single page. This book has helped me to understand every aspect of starting and maintaining a garden. My dad, who actually grew up on a farm, read some of my book when he came to visit and even he was very impressed. I mention this because I don't think this book is only for idiot-gardeners like myself. He read a lot of the recommendations and theories for wide-row and organic methods and he even learned from this book. I would highly recommend purchasing this book. Great photos, diagrams, illustrations, bullet-points, what to buy, what to reuse & recycle, incredible in-depth bios of vegetable plants (encyclopedia-style, more than you could ever want to know about a plant). The list really goes on and on. The pictures are so helpful!

This book showed me how to start with a 3x3 raised bed, non-permanent, producing vegetable & herb garden (which is great for me because we are in Southern California so any amount of land is tough to come by & we rent). It helped me to not feel overwhelmed or take on too much too soon in my first major gardening endeavor and now I am able to start feeding my family more and more healthy organic vegetables that I grow from seed. I don't even have to go to Whole Foods and spend 50% of our income on our veggie budget each month. I learned how to plan everything out, start my seeds indoors with soilless seed-starting mix, transplanting, soil temp, vertical gardening, composting and how to save my plants organically and relatively simply when something (be it bug, bird or disease) is trying to eat or kill all of my efforts.

In summation, I learned how to grow a self-sufficient garden for my family with this book and it will be my most trusted garden companion for years to come. So well written.
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Matuzalen Lopez
4.0 out of 5 stars Read the whole book
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2023
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This is a good book for referencing how to grow vegetables. It tells you how deep to plant the seeds and around what time to grow. Has a variety of vegetables.
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dayhiker
5.0 out of 5 stars Still my favorite reference
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024
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I bought this in 2011 and still use it. I gift it to new gardeners. The section with planting, growing and harvesting details is still more useful than google searches. Multiple sites of info is in one area. So I start with the book and then move to google and youtube.
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Jasmine jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars Gardeners book
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
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This was an amazing find for me. I’ve been wanting to garden for a long time but had no idea how to care for a garden, nor the correct soil, seasons to plant, or how to harvest. This book is extremely detailed for a beginner or seasoned gardener. I look forward to spring to begin planting with the knowledge I have. Oh, and it also advises about indoor gardening too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great product
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
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Crazy Daisy
5.0 out of 5 stars If you could only have one, this would be it!
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2012
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UPDATE: I just had to come back a year later to reaffirm just how much I depend on this book. Seriously, it's all that and then some! My poor paperback is so beat up on the outside. But the inside is holding up very well, so is the actual binding. I've tried so many times to put it away, but it ends up coming right back out shortly after. Anytime I get to thinking about growing something or if I want to improve things in the garden, check the PH, nutrients, etc. back to the book I go. I really do highly recommend it to anyone who isn't yet a "master" gardener. Who knows, they might even learn something from it! I think the reason it is so popular, other than the data being dependable, is the layout is so common sense. The whole back of the book has pages dedicated to each vegetable and you just go in alphabetical order to access that page. So my point is, if you are floundering around Amazon trying to pinpoint which gardening book to start with, this is it!

ORIGINAL REVIEW: I started gardening for the first time last year and have used this book to the point that the edges are curled and it looks like it's 10 years old! It tells a little about everything. Whenever I need to know how deep to plant, spacing or what nutrients plants need, it's all right there on one page! I believe it is more focused on northern gardens, but I live in the deep south and it still came in quite handy! I never actually put this book away. If I do, it comes right back out within a few days. It is a great introduction to gardening organically and tells enough to get you started on everything. If you need more information you would need to research further, but this book provides enough to get you going for sure. I give it 5 stars for the layout, pictures, information and ease of use! Happy gardening!
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L. Fortes
5.0 out of 5 stars Um livro de consulta para quem tem ou quer ter uma horta.
Reviewed in Brazil on October 22, 2022
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É um livro muito conhecido no mundo todo. Muito consultado e citado. Boas recomendações, escritas para pequenos horticultres. Para nós brasileiros tem a possível desvantagem de ter sido escrito para norte americanos. Tem todos os vegetais e legumes mais comuns por aqui, mas tem outros que nós raramente consumimos. E é em inglês

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Danny
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a gardener's bible
Reviewed in Canada on June 7, 2021
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Rejoice! Great for both newbie and experienced gardeners alike! Packed full of useful information on the fly as you need it. Highly recommend!
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Yogesh Umtol
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in India on December 12, 2023
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Nice book, would recommend it.
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Margaret Howard
5.0 out of 5 stars Good bible for beginners
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2021
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Given as a gift to beginner gardeners. It looked great and came promptly
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Marie J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Literalmente una biblia para aprender a cultivar
Reviewed in Mexico on October 9, 2018
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Qué puedo decir! Un libro que es disno de llamarse biblia del hortelano. No tengo palabras para describir qué tan bueno es. Tiene toda la información si no tienes noción alguna de qué estás haciendo jaja. Yo tenía experiencia previa pero está tan bien explicado que me parece una fuente de consulta frecuente. Está lleno de imagenes y todo pasó a paso.
Lo recomiendo muchísimo y sé que les ayudará sin duda alguna.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Literalmente una biblia para aprender a cultivar
Reviewed in Mexico on October 9, 2018
Qué puedo decir! Un libro que es disno de llamarse biblia del hortelano. No tengo palabras para describir qué tan bueno es. Tiene toda la información si no tienes noción alguna de qué estás haciendo jaja. Yo tenía experiencia previa pero está tan bien explicado que me parece una fuente de consulta frecuente. Está lleno de imagenes y todo pasó a paso.
Lo recomiendo muchísimo y sé que les ayudará sin duda alguna.
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