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Dick Raymond's Gardening Year
Offers an illustrated month-by-month guide to the proper planning, planting, tending, and harvesting of a vegetable garden
- GenresGardening
250 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1985
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April 11, 2019
More than 30 years ago, I ordered this wonderful book through Book of the Month Club, and it is still my go to book on vegetable gardening.
It is a month by month, step by step guide to growing a variety of vegetables in your garden. Lots of great ideas. For example, he taught me to plant radishes in with the carrots. The radishes come up 1st and you can then pretty much tell where the slower starting carrots are located. (It's easy to forget where you plant stuff sometimes!) Then, as the radishes ripen and you harvest them, it opens up space and loosens the soil for the remaining carrots. Win-win.
He is a firm believer in wide row planting and I concur with the merits, but that requires a big garden. I just don't have the space or patience for that much gardening, so I have gone over to square foot, raised beds. Anyway, this book is well worth searching for, especially for novice gardeners. Check out the reviews on Amazon as well. The big color photos are great too.
I got it out again now that gardening season approaches. This book is a treasure.
It is a month by month, step by step guide to growing a variety of vegetables in your garden. Lots of great ideas. For example, he taught me to plant radishes in with the carrots. The radishes come up 1st and you can then pretty much tell where the slower starting carrots are located. (It's easy to forget where you plant stuff sometimes!) Then, as the radishes ripen and you harvest them, it opens up space and loosens the soil for the remaining carrots. Win-win.
He is a firm believer in wide row planting and I concur with the merits, but that requires a big garden. I just don't have the space or patience for that much gardening, so I have gone over to square foot, raised beds. Anyway, this book is well worth searching for, especially for novice gardeners. Check out the reviews on Amazon as well. The big color photos are great too.
I got it out again now that gardening season approaches. This book is a treasure.
February 13, 2011
I don't know if this book is still in print, but find it! If you are serious about growing a vegetable garden, THIS is the book you need. Lots of pictures, basic, easy directions. This is how to garden the way your grandparents (or great-grandparents) did it. Forget the fancy garden magazines where the vegetable gardens were created by a crew prepping for a photo spread, this book shows Mr. Raymond's own garden. I have been using this book for over twenty years. I have read every garden book that's out there and this book is the one I would recommend first.
February 20, 2011
This book is a very good guide for anyone who is interested in gardening and may not have had much experiencing doing so in the past. I tried to follow along with many of the suggestions in this book, though we had much less land and quite a drought this year. This coming season I plan to focus my attention on fewer crops and cross my fingers for rain. Recommend!
January 10, 2010
A step up from his more popular the Joy of Gardening. I use this book more often because of the lay out and the type of information. Joy of Gardening is better for a beginner. But this book is useful for someone with a little experience.
January 8, 2016
Great book I had misplaced mine glad I could find great book. It goes great with the joy of gardening.
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