Veggie gardening book

[archerynut]

Now I remember the other book that may be of interest to you. It's called Carrots love tomatoes. Heres the link to Gurneys website that always ahs it for sale, you can find it cheaper oter places though.
CARROTS Love TOMATOES - Gurney's Seed & Nursery

It is a guide of how to plant companion plants. For instance if you put plant A next to plant B you will have better results for XYZ reason. Some solid facts in this book, I tried some of it last year and it really did work. I had less pests on some plants and other plants flourished. It is a good way to diagram how you garden will grow.

 

[thingy]

I got my book in my head,,wife does the canning,,she used one of those kerr canning books before she got it all down,,,whata wanta know,,,how to plant corn,,beans,onions tators,cucs?,,how to make pickles,sour kraut,,?,,how to can beans or freeze corn on the cob? It would be alot funner argureing about all those things than reading an old book!
I'm getting ready anytime now,to plant tators,red and white,,,,onions,lettuce,carrots,radishes,spinich,,,,thats about all you can plant here now,,it was 82 degrees yesterday and today,,so,,very warm for this time of year here. thingy

 

[HappyCPE]

Carrots love tomatoes is a good book, add my vote.

My favorite, not exactly about veggies, is here:
Amazon.com: You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise: Books: Joel F. Salatin
maybe not exactly what you're looking for but an excellent book, and often quoted in the farm seminars put on by Rutgers and NOFA.

 

[dmccarty]

When I read the subject my first thought was go to your state extension office for info. The NC state website has some very good information and its what we are using to base our garden size.

Then I read the posts and checked out the books as well as reviews. Very interesting.

The one thing that caught my eye was Companion Planting. So I googled. I'll be busy reading for awhile. Its free and in my "hands" now.

Sunday spread another 30 yards of composted "soil". The garden is a raised bed 45x25. We started with roughly 12x36 last year. Next year I'll put in retaining wall blocks to finish the raised bed off and likely add another 20 yards of soi. One end is kinda "shallow". The NC extension article said that a 42x25 garden should keep a family of 2 in veggies for a year. Course that assumes we can grow anything.

Later,
Dan