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Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartlandby Andrea Ray Chandler Paperback - 223 pages (April 2001) Taylor Pub ISBN: 0878332588 Dimensions (in inches): 0.52 x 8.94 x 5.84 Check price @ amazon.com , amazon.ca , amazon.co.uk Editorial Reviews "Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartland" is chock-full of extra information often not found in generic gardening books: How to harvest, rather than plants spinach on St. Patricks Day; How to grow the same amount of plants using one-fourth less water, nutrients and time; How to double your tomato harvest; The unique Barrow Composting method allows the busy gardener to easily add several inches of compost to the garden in just a season’s time, with very little work; How to decipher seed catalogs; Compares various methods for garden layout, debunks common myths, and offers advice for selecting tools; Explains seed-saving and how to figure potential harvests; Offers a photo section for interpreting and coping with weather extremes; Organic pest control chapter includes photos of the critters to help gardeners identify what’s bugging them; Frost date charts for different cities in the Heartland; Addresses for state Extension Offices; Regional hardiness maps provide readers with more intimate details on their particular region. The book is horoughly illustrated with original photos (most in full color) that illustrate the concepts. And since anyone growing vegetables also eats them, there’s a chapter of tested recipes and herb-growing information. An extensive Bibliography, and an entertaining Glossary helps novices understand terms used in the horticultural world; Tables give equivalencies in both English and Metric lengths and volumes, plus handy formulas for those calculations you forgot after graduating school, such as finding circumference and area of circles [useful for building tomato cages], figuring the height of a tree without trigonometry, and more. Customer Reviews Reviewer: tblyleven from La Palma, CA USA What makes this gardening book stand out is the author's writing style that reads as if she is in the room talking to you. Although I have dozens of gardening books, "Growing Great Vegetable in the Heartland" would rate in my Top Three. Not only for the content of topics, but also her easy to read delivery, the many additional hint's, ideas and beautiful pictures. Well worth the cover price, my gardening friends will be getting this from me for Christmas! Reviewer: Brian Walker from Kingfisher Oklahoma If you garden in the heartland, this book should be your gardening bible. Ms. Chandler provides tons of information dealing with growing conditions specific to this area, that you won't find in most books. Trust me, this type of knowledge is something that is only gained by years of experience. If you want to save yourself from all the trouble of gardening by trial and error, this book is the answer to your prayers. One of the most comprehensive guides you'll ever find. Enjoy! A Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Gardening by B. Rosie Lerner CD-ROM (August 1, 2001) Purdue Research Foundation ISBN: 093168286X Cubed Foot Gardening : Growing Vegetables in Raised, Intensive Beds by Christopher O. 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