annieb123's Review of New Vegetable Garden Techniques

by Joyce Russell

This book is ideal for beginners, improvers and those serious about growing tasty, healthy organic fruit and vegetables. It will empower readers to grow food for a family, and help work out how to get the best results. Many books give sowing and growing instructions for a multitude of crops, but few give space to the techniques and tips that make gardening easier and that help anyone to grow healthy, sustainable food.
Some of the techniques are developed from Joyce's own trials and observations; others are classic techniques that are still useful now. With a bit more detail, and a step-by-step project, a technique becomes much easier to follow and understand.
There's something here for everyone: whether you grow in a small back yard and want to know how to raise salad in buckets, or if you have a large allotment where you want to improve pollination, or make your own liquid feeds.
The book makes several promises to its readers. Firstly, by following its advice you will grow great fruit and vegetables. Next, the knowledge you gain will save you time as well as money. Third, you'll enjoy the gardening journey and the discoveries made along the way. Fourth, you'll find greener and cleaner ways of doing things, and you'll improve your skills, methods and habits.
Find out how to rotate your vegetables so they stay healthy and well-fed, to preserve choice crops for the freshest taste, to improve the soil organically and sustainably, and to produce home made fertiliser from the leaves of your comfrey crop.

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

New Vegetable Garden Techniques by gardening expert and educator Joyce Russell is a technique and theory gardening manual covering a skills based troubleshooting system for improving yields and results for the home gardener.

Released 16th April 2019 by Quarto on their White Lion imprint, it's 192 pages and available in flexibound paperback and ebook formats.

The book includes tutorial chapter containing 23 projects. These range from very simple and quickly executed (microgreens), to more involved (handmade hanging baskets from found materials and semi-permaculture structures). All are gardening related. The tutorials are gathered into 4 sections: getting started, improving soil, better produce and better harvests. Each main section also includes generalized information relating to the subject.

There is a glossary and index included and the eARC version of the book includes an interactive table of contents, which is handy.

The photography is well done and supports and illustrates the text very well. The tutorials are clear and easy to follow. The information contained in the book is general in nature, there is no discussion about hardiness zones or micro-climates, and will be appropriate for gardeners in most temperate regions.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

New Vegetable Garden Techniques

by Joyce Russell

Reviewed by annieb123 on May 1, 2019

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