Guide to Tennessee Vegetable Gardening

by Walter Reeves

This book offers advice on everything from starting your garden from seed, to planning your garden with helpful space saving techniques. Make this guide a must-have resource for anyone interested in growing vegetables, no matter what their space requirements. Helpful charts will outline when to plant and when to harvest cool and warm season vegetables.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Walter Reeves is a native Georgian who grew up on a farm in rural Fayette county, where he gained lots of practical knowledge about plants. His horticulture career began with the University of Georgia Extension, where he served for 29 years. Best known to Atlanta-area listeners as the radio host of The Lawn and Garden Show with Walter Reeves, he also reaches gardeners through his weekly columns in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Walter helps gardeners throughout the state as the host of Gardening in Georgia, shown weekly on Georgia Public Broadcasting. Walter is the co-author of the Georgia Gardeners Guide, Month by Month Gardening in Georgia, and The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Book. His website www.walterreeves.com contains thousands of hints, tips and answers for gardeners in the Southeast. He lives with his wife Sandi and his son Grey on a one-acre in progress landscape in DeKalb county."

Reviews

[Jake B-Y · Rating 2 out of 5]

You know you’re in trouble when the guide to Tennessee vegetable gardening is written by two guys that aren’t even from the southeast! Self-styled “southern” gardeners, Reeves and Rushing certainly have a lot of knowledge, but it centers around using RoundUp, artificial fertilizers, and generalized knowledge for “the South.” (At one point they give advice for coastal areas. The only problem…Tennessee doesn’t have a coastal area!) There is almost nothing specific to Tennessee, except for some USDA hardiness zone maps—but even those are incorrect. Add that to the fact that some of their vegetable stories begin with “When settlers first came to America, they found…” and there’s a whole cocktail of ideological reasons to skip this book. If you need a general guide to gardening—which is what this is, disguised as a regional book—grab The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible.

That being said, this is one of the few vegetable gardening books I’ve read that pays real attention to fruits. I learned quite a few things about my strawberry patch that will be useful in the future. Hence the two stars instead of one.