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The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables - (The First-Time Gardener's Guides) by Jessica Sowards (Paperback)
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Highlights
- You're excited to plant your first vegetable garden--but where to start?
- About the Author: Jessica Sowards is a homesteader and gardener who shares her journey through social media.
- 176 Pages
- Gardening, Vegetables
- Series Name: The First-Time Gardener's Guides
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About the Book
"Growing Vegetables (The First-Time Gardener) is an essential tool for newbie gardeners, handing them all the practical and inspirational know-how they need to grow a fruitful garden, even if its their very first time sinking a seed into the soil. Planting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating; it's tough to know where to start. Before you sink your hands into the soil, you want answers to all of those questions rolling around inside your head. In Growing Vegetables (The First-Time Gardener), you'll find the answers you're looking for. Where do I put my new garden? How do I prepare the soil? What vegetables should I plant? Is it better to start new plants from seed or should I buy transplants? What about watering, feeding, and taking care of my garden? What do I do if bugs show up? Homesteader Jessica Sowards, the warm and vivacious host of YouTube's Roots and Refuge Farm, is the perfect teacher for new gardeners, offering not just know-how but inspiration and time-management tips for success. Not only will you learn how to prepare, plant, and tend your first vegetable garden, you'll also learn how to design an eco-friendly layout, how to grow with the seasons, and how to maximise your harvest, even if you only grow in a small space. Jessica wants your first food-growing experience to be a positive one, and she's prepared to go the distance to make sure tending the earth becomes your new favourite hobby. There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. A single growing season is all it takes to fall in love with growing your own healthy, organic, nutrient-dense food. With Jessica as your guide, you'll soon discover all the satisfactions, challenges, and great joys of growing your own food garden."--Provided by publisher.Book Synopsis
You're excited to plant your first vegetable garden--but where to start? In The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables, you'll find the answers you're looking for. *Winner of the GardenComm 2022 Media Awards Silver Award of Achievement in the Photography/Book General Readership Category* Homesteader Jessica Sowards, the warm and energetic host of YouTube's Roots and Refuge Farm, is the perfect teacher for new gardeners, offering not just know-how but inspiration and time-management tips for success. Before you sink your hands into the soil, she'll answer all those questions rolling around inside your head:- Where do I put my new garden?
- How do I prepare the soil?
- What vegetables should I plant?
- Is it better to start new plants from seed or should I buy transplants?
- What about watering, feeding, and taking care of my garden?
- What do I do if bugs show up?
There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. Not only will you learn how to prepare, plant, and tend your first vegetable garden, you'll also learn:
- How to design an eco-friendly layout
- How to grow with the seasons
- How to maximize your harvest, even if you only grow in a small space
Jessica wants your first food-growing experience to be a positive one, and she's prepared to go the distance to make sure tending the earth becomes your new favorite hobby. A single growing season is all it takes to fall in love with growing your own healthy, organic, nutrient-dense food. With Jessica as your guide, you'll soon discover all the satisfactions, challenges, and great joys of growing your own food garden. This book is part of The First-Time Gardener's Guides series from Cool Springs Press, which also includes The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers and The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening. Each book in The First-Time Gardener's Guides series is aimed at beginner gardeners and offers clear, fact-based information that's presented in a friendly and accessible way, including step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout.
Review Quotes
'a useful and inspiring guide for those at the beginning of the veg-growing journey.'
--Countryfile Magazine"... answers every question from where to put the garden to how to prepare soil to deciding which veggies to plant."--CNN Underscored
"Sowards welcomes new gardeners to growing vegetables with a cheerful voice and a can-do attitude."--Heather Prince, American Gardener
"Beautifully and profusely illustrated throughout in full color photography...the ideal and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, school, and community library Gardening Horticulture instructional reference collections."--Midwest Book Review
"Sowards is also a gifted writer. Her words bring the many acts and facts of gardening to life and illustrate her principles as vividly as her photographs."--Provincetown Independent
About the Author
Jessica Sowards is a homesteader and gardener who shares her journey through social media. She and her husband, Jeremiah, are raising their six children on a small hobby farm. They share their lives on their YouTube channel, Roots and Refuge Farm. She offers the insights they have gathered along the way in her books, The First-time Gardener: Growing Vegetables (March 2021) and The First-Time Homesteader (September 2022). Jessica is passionate about gardening, growing food, and equipping others to do the same.Dimensions (Overall): 10.0 Inches (H) x 8.0 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Gardening
Sub-Genre: Vegetables
Series Title: The First-Time Gardener's Guides
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Jessica Sowards
Language: English
Street Date: March 2, 2021
TCIN: 81227080
UPC: 9780760368725
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-3094
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Excellent source of information and fantastically knowledgeable author
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Jenna - 3 years ago, Verified purchaser
This book is packed with helpful information for the new gardener. The author, Jessica Sowards, is particularly well-equipped with knowledge that specifically applies to first-time gardeners as she was once a new gardener herself. She talks about her failures and learning process, which I find incredibly helpful when learning. This book is also full of beautiful pictures that are encouraging and make the book that much more enjoyable to read. I highly recommend that you check out her YouTube channel, Roots and Refuge Farm, where she has an entire library of helpful videos and a supportive gardener community!
Amazing!
5 out of 5 stars
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SAFC17 - 4 years ago
Love this book! Jessica is so knowledgeable about the garden and plants in general. I've learned so much from her. Check out her YouTube channel if you like the book!
A must buy!
5 out of 5 stars
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Waymastere - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
This is a must buy! Jess is such a wonderful teacher and has so much knowledge on the garden. The book is beautifully written and has gorgeous pictures.
Great for any gardner
5 out of 5 stars
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Emma - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
An easy read that is encouraging, authentic, fun to read and easy to reference. Filled with lots of good tips and tricks and beautiful pictures
Great book!
5 out of 5 stars
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Good Karman Gardening - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
Beautiful book with lots of great info. Jessica knows how to inform and inspire! Easy to read, easy to understand. I'll be buying a few extra copies to give as gifts to my friends/family who are just getting started in the garden.
Full of Knowledge and Encouragment
5 out of 5 stars
Lizz - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
Love this book! Not only is it beautiful and fun to read but it is full of easy to use info that I have been constantly going back to since I got it as I start this years garden. If you are looking for an encouraging word and info to help the beginner in a garden or even the advanced green thumb this is the book for you.
Kids can plant a garden too!
5 out of 5 stars
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Marmie - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
First gardening book that really speaks to me! Awesome job Jessica! Easy read, think I’ll get my highlighters out to make this book truly mine! We are using the book as a learning tool since classes are at home for now. My grandson and I are “Gardeners in Training”. He is so happy planting in containers and we just put in a small garden. He is very excited to learn from the book and try new vegetables which we can bring to the table.Looking forward to the next book!
Great gift book
5 out of 5 stars
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Gift giving Mom - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
This book is wonderful. Worth every penny
Absolutely must !!
5 out of 5 stars
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Peanut butter - 4 years ago, Verified purchaser
Love this book!! Jessica ( author) is so passionate about gardening and really good with her words! She wrote this book very well. Very easy to read, understand and still enjoyable!! Photography it self is worth looking at pictures and draws you to read about it !! Highly recommend!!