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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible

About the Author Edward C. Smith is the best-selling author of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible and The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible. For more than 30 years he and his wife, Sylvia, have lived off the grid in Vermont, in a house they built on land they cleared by hand.

Together, the grow more than 100 varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in their 2,000 square feet of gardens and containers.

Ed Smith is back with a 10th Anniversary Edition for the next generation of vegetable gardeners. New to this edition is coverage of 15 additional vegetables, including an expanded section on salad greens and more European and Asian vegetables.

Readers will also find growing information on more fruits and herbs, new cultivar photographs in many vegetable entries, and a much requested section on extending the season into the winter months.

No matter how cold the climate, growers can bring herbs indoors and keep hardy greens alive in cold frames or hoop houses. The impulse to grow vegetables is even stronger in 2009 than it was in 2000, when Storey published THE VEGETABLE GARDENER S BIBLE. The financial and environmental costs of fossil fuels raise urgent questions: How far should we be shipping food? What are the health costs of petroleum based pesticides and herbicides? Do we have to rely on very large farms that use petrol powered machinery to grow and harvest crops? With every difficult question, more people think, maybe I should grow a few vegetables of my own.

This book will continue to answer all their vegetable gardening questions

Consumer review about The Vegetable Gardener's Bible :
This book was bought as a present for a gardener who enjoys growing and cooking his own vegetables ~ he was delighted to receive this book which he described as "a comprehensive guide to all aspects of growing and harvesting vegetables". It had been recommended to him by a friend.(Read more)