The Complete Vegetable Gardener's Sourcebook

by Duane G. Newcomb, Karen L. Newcomb

Presented is information on choosing a garden site, soil testing, organic gardening, hand and power tools, transplanting, greenhouses, and indoor gardening, with an evaluation of the varieties available for each vegetable

Genres: Gardening

408 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1980

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is yet another gardening book that I wish were still in print. It's got mostly open-pollinated vegetable cultivars (as well as cultivars of numerous common herbs, like parsley) organized in ways that surprised me when I first found this book but that simultaneously make a lot of sense. It's one of the most thorough books I've seen on older cultivars and it takes a pretty obscure cultivar to not be listed. It also has information tucked into the book about each cultivar and about more general stuff - for example, did you know that purple-podded garden beans tend to sprout better in cooler soil than other garden beans? - and all organic gardeners like me need to do is ignore the instructions for what to chemical spray for different problems, which is a tiny part of each vegetable's multi-page entry. Highly recommended.