GrowVeg: The Beginner's Guide to Easy Vegetable Gardening

by Benedict Vanheems

Overview

For anyone who has ever wanted to tend a little piece of ground but wasn’t sure where to begin, GrowVeg offers simple recipes for gardening projects that are both attainable and beautiful. Benedict Vanheems, editor of the popular website GrowVeg.com, guides aspiring green thumbs to success from the start, no matter what size gardening space you have. Get recommendations for veggie varieties for your first edible garden, plant a miniature orchard, and grow an edible archway, or keep your efforts contained by cultivating a rustic crate of herbs on a sunny balcony, a crop of carrots in a basket, or nutritious and delicious sprouts in a jar on the kitchen counter. The beginner-friendly instructions and step-by-step photography detail more than 30 approachable, small-scale gardening projects that will inspire and empower you to get growing!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635862928
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.31(w) x 8.31(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Benedict Vanheems is the author of GrowVeg and a lifelong gardener with a BSc and an RHS General Certificate in horticulture. He is the face of the GrowVeg.com YouTube channel, and has edited and contributed to a variety of gardening publications including Garden Design Journal, Grow It!, Grow Your Own, and Kitchen Garden, Britain’s longest-running edible garden magazine.

Table of Contents

Edible Gardening Basics
Dependable Favorites
Small Space, Big Impact
Lovable Eccentrics
Nature's Helping Hand
Head Turners
The Great Indoors
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Index

Editorial Reviews

03/01/2021

The mission of UK-based GrowVeg.com is to "open up the wonders of homegrown, organic gardening to everyone." Vanheems, who also stars in the website's popular YouTube videos, provides straightforward instruction for the beginner gardener to get started growing garden vegetables of all kinds, in spaces of all sizes. Vanheems guides gardeners through the entire process of growing their first garden. Chapters cover everything from choosing a location to adding organic matter, starting seeds, transplanting, watering, harvesting the first crops, and more. For those short on in-ground soil, alternative methods for growing some vegetables are presented, such as potatoes grown in a trash can, carrots grown in a basket, and chilis grown in a bucket. A variety of simple and accessible garden projects are also included, such as making a hanging garden from a wardrobe organizer, a wormery, a bug hotel, and a pallet planter. VERDICT Beginning gardeners who are eager to get their hands dirty will find both inspiration and practical information in this accessible, colorful, and highly illustrated volume.—Pauline Theriault, Multnomah Cty. Lib., Portland, OR

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