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Grow Great Vegetables in Georgia
Get the inside dirt, Georgia! This ultimate local guide to growing vegetables and other edibles provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing season details across Georgia. Information includes details on sun, soil, fertilizer, mulch, water, and the best varieties for your region. A garden planning section helps with design and crop rotation, and monthly lists explain what to do from January through December. In-depth profiles of nearly 50 edibles round out the information and help ensure a can’t-miss harvest.
- GenresGardening
252 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 14, 2020
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May 2, 2020
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Grow Great Vegetables in Georgia is a regionally tailored home gardening guide for producing vegetables for taste and nutrition and to increase self-reliance and food security. This is one of a series of regionally specific guides released by Timber press. Written by Ira Wallace, it's 252 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
This guide is arranged by seasons with a chapter for each month. The introductory chapter (~13% of the page content) covers garden planning, climates and subzones in Georgia, as well as a very general gardening introduction.
The monthly sections include tasks for each month, potential problems and troubleshooting, planning and placement of the garden plot, harvesting and more.
The third section of the book is a regional guide to choosing vegetables and varieties which will thrive in your area.
There's a resource list (slanted to readers in the southeast region), a bibliography and further reading list, USDA based hardiness zonal map, and an index. The photography is crisp, clear, and abundant. This is a well crafted book which will provide gardeners with hours of blissful dreaming as well as serving as a valuable troubleshooting guide.
Five stars. Very well done.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
Grow Great Vegetables in Georgia is a regionally tailored home gardening guide for producing vegetables for taste and nutrition and to increase self-reliance and food security. This is one of a series of regionally specific guides released by Timber press. Written by Ira Wallace, it's 252 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
This guide is arranged by seasons with a chapter for each month. The introductory chapter (~13% of the page content) covers garden planning, climates and subzones in Georgia, as well as a very general gardening introduction.
The monthly sections include tasks for each month, potential problems and troubleshooting, planning and placement of the garden plot, harvesting and more.
The third section of the book is a regional guide to choosing vegetables and varieties which will thrive in your area.
There's a resource list (slanted to readers in the southeast region), a bibliography and further reading list, USDA based hardiness zonal map, and an index. The photography is crisp, clear, and abundant. This is a well crafted book which will provide gardeners with hours of blissful dreaming as well as serving as a valuable troubleshooting guide.
Five stars. Very well done.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
May 7, 2020
Where have these books been all my life? These simple little gardening books specific to my area to help me MAYBE grow something and stop me from slaughtering more innocent plants with my black thumb. This book is to the point and goes through gardening in Georgia from start to finish. So, where do you start? Well, the big three are soil, sunlight, and water. The book details the kinds of soils and how to improve them. Hint: compost. Mulch after you plant. Water when you need to not on a schedule. How much sunlight different plants need and whether they need morning or afternoon sunlight.
What makes this book the best is the charts that tells you what plants are easy to grow, what plants take more effort, what plants need more room, what plants are the most challenging and the seasons. I will of course plant only from the easy column. I also value the chapter on container planting. Also, valuable is the month by month checklist for getting things done. Lucky for me it is the first of May and we still sort of quarantining or actually waiting around to see what the virus will do while Georgia opens up so what better way to stay active than read this book and complete the Nay checklist and plant a few vegetables on the easy list. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review.
What makes this book the best is the charts that tells you what plants are easy to grow, what plants take more effort, what plants need more room, what plants are the most challenging and the seasons. I will of course plant only from the easy column. I also value the chapter on container planting. Also, valuable is the month by month checklist for getting things done. Lucky for me it is the first of May and we still sort of quarantining or actually waiting around to see what the virus will do while Georgia opens up so what better way to stay active than read this book and complete the Nay checklist and plant a few vegetables on the easy list. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book in exchange for a review.
February 26, 2021
Everything you ever needed to know about growing vegetables in Georgia is covered in this book. Whether you're a beginning gardener or a seasoned one you will find valuable information. Many resources are given and the information seems to be up to date. Since I have already read two books on soil science and building good soil for my garden it was easy to compare them to the advice given here. The experts agree.
March 6, 2025
I’ve been searching for a book specific to my region for so long. When my friend picked this one out at the bookshop, I immediately pounced! I’m so glad I didn’t hesitate to take this one home as it is filled with amazing, practical tips for growing all sorts of fruits and vegetables in Georgia, no matter which region you reside within. I know I will be referencing this book often as the growing season kicks off this year and for many years to come.
January 23, 2025
I’m taking up gardening this year and this was such a helpful guide. I appreciated the regionally specific insights and I’m excited to keep referencing this throughout the year.
April 23, 2024
Excellent summary of what to do when in my zone garden. It makes managing my kitchen garden so much simpler!
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