The Creative Vegetable Gardener- 60 Ways to Cultivate Joy, Playfulness, and Beauty along with a Bounty of Food by Kelly Smith Trimble
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Web ID: 16837039A holistic approach to being a Vegetable gardener
A thorough book about being a Vegetable Gardener, is a new look at how the garden should look like and how they should behave. Most garden books tell you to grow vegetables in single rows and space between the plants, but this book gives you permission to grow your vegetables together with flowers and other plants that not only benefit the vegetable plants but help attract good insects to the garden and help keep down pests I like that the book talks about size, color and aspects of plants that should be grown together. How to rethink what to use as mulch and to eliminate weeds, not with insecticide but by cutting off the top of the plant and allowing the roots to become organic matter. I love the idea of using flowers and other plants to enhance the garden and I like that Trimble talks to other gardeners that have try this new approach and how it not only helps the plants they are cultivating but helps bring peace and happiness to the gardener. I like that Trimble talks about all the ways you can arrange a garden, what to use for structures. when to start growing certain plants, what parts you can eat and how to cultivate seeds. Just a lot of wonderful information for gardeners who want to do something different with their gardens. Lovely change. What I found very interesting, is that I started to leave certain weeds up too because the bugs loved them and left the plants alone. It also seems that by using leaves in the fall for mulching the plants the soil looks better and the plants seem happier. Maybe I found this book for a reason. The book is well illustrated and have many photos to enhance what the author is talking about, It help me a lot. For a short book there is a lot of information so go through so go slow and don't hurry the process and you won't miss anything. A worthy book for a gardeners library. I want to thank Storey Publishing, Storey Publishing, LLC and NetGalley for an advance copy of this great gardening book.
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Great Photos
I selected this book because we are interested in including some edibles in our landscaped beds in addition to our raised beds designated for vegetables. The author did a nice job explaining how to begin this process, even including some pairing of plants that work well together. The photos included in this book were particularly beautiful and inspiring with regard to my purpose for reading. I especially appreciated the beds that were free form and made the most of the contours of the property on which they were located. I picked up some good gardening tips, and ideas for using some plants in more creative ways. I wasn't a fan of the sections within the book that felt more new-age related, and just skipped over them. Nor was I a fan that the book included info on growing cannabis. I am grateful to have received a complimentary copy of The Creative Vegetable Gardener from Storey Publishing via NetGalley without obligation. All opinions expressed here are my own.
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Grow with joy!
As soon as you see the first pictures of beautiful spiral vegetable gardens, veggies interplanted among flower beds and foodscapes in front yards, you’ll know this is a unique gardening book. Kelly Trimble starts her book with a frontispiece that says “Grow for Joy” and you know this isn’t the usual how-to-grow vegetables book after the amount of sun, USDA zones or how to interpret fertile bag numbers. So many people decided to take up vegetable gardening during the pandemic — many have continued with their new hobby while others were frustrated. The others didn’t have Kelly’s sage advice “learn from what you’ve killed” or that a garden can be more than just veggies — add pollinators, perennials, or ornamentals and even edible weeds! The book is beautifully illustrated and has “real people” gardens to salivate over. The chapters have joyous titles and there are a lot of little boxes with informative asides (like botanical drawing or yoga in the garden). I found so much that was unique in the presentation that I was “reading for joy” while planning how to “grow with joy”. 5 stars! This is both an instructive book and would make a great gift book in the spring.
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