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Comment on The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season by JOAN M DAVIS

JOAN M DAVIS — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:06:53 +0000

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Informative...., January 23, 2011

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This review is from: The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season (Spiral-bound)

A very affordable book for gardeners. I like the week by week format. I always start too late trying to grow seedlings missing out on some early crops. I made a bookmark with my area's frost dates and weekly dates corresponding to the book. I feel organized for the first time since I started veggie gardening. The book has reminders for maintenance such as when to start looking for certain insects and diseases like blight. It has timely information in each section!

I bought extras for my dad and friends.

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Comment on The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season by Kim Mullen

Kim Mullen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:18:35 +0000

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

At last, December 30, 2010

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At last a book which will help me remember what to plant when. Every year I forget something until it's too late to plant it. This handy guide will help keep me on track. It will be especially useful for planting for fall crops. Lots of helpful information stuck in here and there for beginners and experienced gardeners. The format allows anyone to use this book in any zone and I like the space for entering my own notes for the next 4 years. I'm sure I will be referring to it often.

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Comment on The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season by Sarah J. Dinges

Sarah J. Dinges — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:43:34 +0000

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

Could be helpful, could be disastrous., July 1, 2011

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I liked this book, I really did. I read through it and thought it sounded like a neat idea and that its checklists would help me keep on top of my garden chores week by week. So I happily filled in my frost date and dates thereafter on the weekly schedules in the book, then flipped to the page for the current date to check on my garden progress. That's when I realized that the dates had no bearing on reality at all.

My average frost date is April 15. This book lists "Early fall" as 12-14 weeks after the average date of frost. That's in July. One of the hottest parts of my season. Huh? Fall doesn't even start until September. And this is where the book could be dangerous for beginners. It makes fertilizer recommendations based on dates that may be completely inappropriate for your area. If I had followed the instructions here, based on the weekly dates, I would have completely eradicated my harvest.

Clearly it needed to switch from "after frost" to "before frost" midway through the schedule.

The only saving grace is that the sections are marked as "early Summer" "mid Summer" etc, so you could use it as a loose schedule, but not a specific weekly schedule.

Maybe the book deserves slightly more than one star, because there is some good info, but I think any book that could totally destroy a new gardener's experience and lead them down the path of utter failure is undeserving of a high rating.

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Comment on Mini Green House – Vegetable Garden by GardenGirltv

GardenGirltv — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:03:43 +0000

Great video, thank you for shareing it.

Comment on How to Grow Vegetables by The Pleasure Of Working In The Garden | Pretty Garden Tips

The Pleasure Of Working In The Garden | Pretty Garden Tips — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:33:20 +0000

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Comment on Mini Green House – Vegetable Garden by webcajun

webcajun — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:15:09 +0000

That solved one problem I was having, now birds are eating the seedlings I have on an open rack next to this one. You can hear them in the video. Ordered some netting and will install that next.

Just watched your video on raising worms, which happens to be on my “to do” list for 2009. Thanks …… Donald

Comment on Mini Green House – Vegetable Garden by ArboriusOwns

ArboriusOwns — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:58:14 +0000

If you have a green house set up like the one in the video try putting a bucket of compost on the floor under the plastic. Compost gives off some heat as it decomposes.

Comment on Mini Green House – Vegetable Garden by Gen1Rev22

Gen1Rev22 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:39:16 +0000

Thank you!!! I need all the advice I can get !!

Comment on Mini Green House – Vegetable Garden by yomolove

yomolove — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:45:52 +0000

I had a thought…. maybe holes in the top would work… a couple maybe 4, what do you think… I have 3 stands I could use to start my seedlings… any suggestions on when to start my seedlings… I am ready now

Comment on Mini Green House – Vegetable Garden by webcajun

webcajun — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:32:02 +0000

For a spring / summer garden you can start your seedlings 6-8 weeks before the last frost date in your area. Cool weather crops like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage that can be planted earlier need to be started earlier…… Donald