Gardening For Everyone - Growing Vegetables, Herbs, and More at Home by Julia Watkins
A guide to creating and growing a backyard garden simply —from planning to planting to harvest, with profiles of essential vegetables and herbs, tips, and fun and creative projects. Growing food in your backyard (or even on a porch or windowsill!) is one of the simplest and most rewarding ways to nourish yourself, be self-sufficient, and connect with nature in a hands-on way. Julia Watkins shares everything you need to know to grow your own vegetables, fruits, and herbs (as well as wildflowers and other beneficial companion plants). The book covers all the nuts and bolts of creating and caring for your garden planning, building, planting, tending, and harvesting followed by a deeper dive into the plants themselves: demystifying annuals vs. perennials, cold-weather vs. warm-weather veggies, and profiles of favorite crops. Throughout, Julia offers tips for creating a garden (such as vermicomposting, no-till "lasagna" gardening, and attracting pollinators), plus some fun and unexpected hands-on projects like how to build a bean teepee, make wildflower seed paper, and enjoy refreshing herbal lemonade ice pops.
- Author - Julia Watkins
- Publisher - HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date - 03-08-2022
- Page Count - 304
- Hardcover
- Adult
- Home and Garden
- Product dimensions - 7.5 W x 9 H x D
- ISBN-13 - 9780358651901
Web ID: 14061001
Great for beginners
Gardening for everyone by Julia Watkins is a beautiful book full of recipes and instructions on how to have a successful garden. The book goes over different gardening methods, how to deal with pests and tips on growing from seed. This book also has profiles on different plants and herbs that are popular to grow. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn to garden or to refresh themselves on methods.
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Good resource
Lots of good information without being overwhelming, for gardeners of all skill levels and interests. Very inspirational!
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Good Resource
Julia Watkins has a wide variety of gardening experience, beginning with her grandparents' garden, gardening in a variety of jobs and in various sized backyards, even gardening as a Peace Corp worker in West Africa. Gardening for Everyone is a resource book organized by stages: planning, tending, building, planting, harvesting, and playing. She supplies plant profiles for many common kitchen garden plants. Watkins is definitely not a one size fits all gardener. She inspires gardeners with lots of options for creative use of space, even indoors. Her fun and practical ideas for playing will bring out the creative child in all of her readers. The photographs in this book are particularly beautiful and inspiring. I am grateful to have received a complimentary copy of Gardening for Everyone from Mariner Books via NetGalley without obligation. All opinions expressed here are my own.
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Gorgeous gardening guide
I am a total sucker for beautiful books and books about gardens, so what can be better than a beautifully illustrated book about gardens? This book is meant to be a guide, but I did read it cover to cover, with plans to return to spend more time with various sections. There are craft instructions, plant guides, but most importantly, pretty pictures. Although the easy to follow instructions make gardening seem easy, I am still constrained by poor soil, inadequate sunlight, and a black thumb. But I can still dream and this book is perfect for bringing gardening dreams to fruition. #GardeningforEveryone #NetGalley
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