Growing your own food is more than a fad, it is a feast! It is easy to start out with a little patch of tomato and peppers plants, and a row of fresh lettuces. Really, there is nothing easier. People even can grow some of these veggies in containers on their balcony- so don’t wait, and don’t feel intimidated by lack of experience… start your own home vegetable garden this season.
Choose Your Vegetable or Your Plan
I have a number of pages to help you either start with a beginning home vegetable garden, or move on to creating a landscape features, if that is in your plans. There is no part of the garden more beneficial to your overall enjoyment of life than the food garden, or Kitchen Garden -as some like to call it.
Grow your vegetables:
- Cultivating Vegetables, Gardening tips for beginners
- Growing your own food
- Your Own French Potager
- Starter Vegetable Garden,Small Space Vegetable Garden Layout
- The Kitchen Garden, Combining Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs
- Mixed Greens for your Salad Bowl. grow Mesclun
- Companion Planting Cheatsheet
- Gardening by the Moon
- Grow Herbs in Your Veggie Garden, Flavorful Culinary Herbs
- The Herb Pages
The Complete Guide: How To Plant A Tomato
Veggie Garden: Growing Succulent Sweet Peppers
Starter Vegetable Garden
Garden Supplies
Vegetable Garden Books I Love
This book by Jennifer Bartley is probably my all time favorite vegetable gardening book, probably because it combines growing food with good looks in the landscape.
An American Potager Handbook
Vegetable Planting and Harvesting Calendar
Zone 5
Bargain Book:
Kindle copy of F. P. Rockwell’s
HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING: A Complete And Practical Guide To The Planting And Care Of All Vegetables…Worth Growing For Home Use
F. P. Rockwell is an author from back in the day- but his books are classics. I cut my teeth on them when first gardening and the information is easy to understand, but completely thorough. Best bargain in the garden book world!
