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The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia Paperback – November 17, 2008

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A veritable encyclopedia and easy how-to guide on all that is natural and necessary in the world of gardening and small fruit, vegetable, and herb preparation, in The Kitchen Garden Grower’s Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia, Stephen Albert leaves no stone—collard green, leek, or potato—unearthed in this absolutely amazing field guide that greenhorns, old hands, weekend gardeners, and chefs should not be without. From the soil to the plate, this manual is exceptionally penned and easy to follow. It provides answers to basic and in-depth growing questions. It includes how to plant, how to grow and care for crops, how to harvest, how to store, and how to prepare vegetables and herbs. From asparagus and beet greens to Belgian endive and strawberries, this book helps readers organize a small garden close to the kitchen that offers their favorite, fresh-picked-at-the-peak-of-ripeness small crop—and the template on how to orchestrate the effort.

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Stephen Albert earned a master's from the University of Iowa and is a graduate of the University of California and Westmont College. A master gardener in the Sonoma Valley of California, he designs edible and flowering gardens for clients around the country. He teaches in both the landscape design and writing programs at the extension college of the University of California at Berkeley and is a certified California nurseryman. For many years, he was a journalist for Time-Warner, Inc., and is currently editor of the website www.HarvestToTable.com, a practical guide to food in the garden, market and kitchen.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BookSurge Publishing (November 17, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 409 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419655795
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419655791
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.56 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.93 x 10 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,567,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,296 in Gardening Encyclopedias
- #1,586 in Vegetable Gardening

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Stephen Albert is a horticulturist and University of California instructor and master gardener. His go-to encyclopedic reference book The Kitchen Garden Grower’s Guide is used by vegetable gardeners around the world. Every year more than 10 million vegetable gardeners from beginners to experts visit his how-to vegetable garden website HarvesttoTable.com. There you will find more than a thousand helpful articles on vegetable gardening. Steve has given hundreds of talks to thousands of home gardeners, market gardeners, master gardeners, master gardener trainees, and university students in community gardens, private gardens, farms, libraries, and lecture halls across North America. Today Steve grows vegetables and fruits in the Sonoma Valley of California. Over the years he has lived and grown vegetables in just about every climate and growing region of the country including Massachusetts, Iowa, Florida, and California.

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Customers find this gardening book to be a great reference guide, particularly helpful while planning and planting new gardens. They appreciate its organization, with one customer noting it has a section for every vegetable.

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Customers find this gardening book to be a great reference guide that provides all the basic information needed, particularly helpful while planning and planting new gardens.

"...This is just it. No long stories, just a reference of the most common veggies. No fancy images, thank you, I can google them myself...." Read more

"...I also recommend the book Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers: Using Ed's Amazing POTS System...." Read more

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"...a lot of information to get to what I'm looking for, it's a very easy book to use and has excellent information...." Read more

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Mr. Knox
Just what I was looking for
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2023
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Got this year into (more) extensive vegetable growing from seed. Rather than googling all the time, I was looking for a reference to help me troubleshoot, determine best sow times, companion crops, etc.

This is just it. No long stories, just a reference of the most common veggies. No fancy images, thank you, I can google them myself. Lots of substance without the usual fluff. I find myself grabbing this all the time to double-check against all the Kale, Tomatoes, Celery, Lettuce, Beans, Beet, Chard etc etc I started growing this year.

Practical indeed!

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Mary McCanta
Great reference book!
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2009
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I'm just starting to grow vegetables so I want all the information I can find to help make my efforts a success. What I love most about this book is that the description of each vegetable includes information on growing it in a cold climate AND in a mild climate.

I live in a mild climate so I can grow many things in the winter that would I not try to grow in a harsher climate this time of year. So many of the vegetable books and websites I've looked at assume that freezing weather in the winter is a given and that simply isn't the case here.

This book has been so helpful while planning and planting my new garden! I also recommend the book Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers: Using Ed's Amazing POTS System. My first batch of spinach is now sprouting in a self-watering container and I hope to grow many more veggies with the help of these two books.

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GKlau
Great food gardening book
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2014
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This book is organized with a section for every vegetable. All the basic information you'll need to grow vegetables is included. Charts at the back of the book cover the United States and Canada giving the average date of last frost, average date of first frost, number of growing days, zone and average minimum temperature. Other countries are covered in a chart indicating the zone and minimum annual temperatures. This is a go to book, easy to use and refer to throughout the planning and growing seasons.

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T. Parks
A great garden help
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2010
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I like the way this book is laid out and how easy it is to refer to. I don't have to sit down and read a lot of information to get to what I'm looking for, it's a very easy book to use and has excellent information. I would suggest this book to anyone who loves to garden, not just read about it :)

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Dan in Ct
This is indeed a great gardening reference book
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2020
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I was at Steve Albert's Harvest to Table website and was copying many of pages on seed germination with tips and tricks . Feeling guilty, I went to Amazon and bought the book and this was exactly what I was looking for as I am making soil temperature and Growing Degree Days part of my gardening focus to narrow in and become more productive and a better gardener. This book gives me the individual needs of each plant when the soil temperature will be in the parameters best for transplanting and direct seed sowing. I bought two gardening books, the other was a bomb, everything stays in harmony.

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garden, gardening, food, herbs, kitchen, how to, diy, growing food
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2021
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Was more than I expected. Very helpful. Liked book's layout. Nice cover. Full of useful information.

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TheOracle
One of my favorite gardening books
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2014
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This is the first book I reach for when I have a question about one of the plants I'm growing. It has all the basic information you could ever want and then some. Very easy to use, well organized, and thorough. I recommend this book for anyone who gardens.

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illustration disaster
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2011
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This book is the worst graphically designed book on gardening that I have ever seen. The only color in this book is the front and back cover. What a cheap disgrace to the beautiful world of gardening. I guess if you were color blind it wouldn't matter. For the price of $26.00 I certainly expected more design to this book. Would send it back if the shipping wasn't so much. dull....dull.....dull....

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HR
Good Info, very useful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2018
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Very useful book, bought when I started my allotment and was literally clueless. It could have had a few more useful things in it like planners or more images but otherwise a solid go to, I read it cover to cover over and over on site until it was completely muddy! Would recommend.

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very useful and full of information I need
Reviewed in Canada on October 16, 2014
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Very, very useful and full of information I need.

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