10 Reviews: Best Vegetable Gardening Books for Beginners (Apr 2024)

Jessica Walliser gives a wealth of scientific evidence to support this method’s justification. Planting with a friend has numerous advantages! Fewer pest damage reduces weeds, and you must expect significant soil fertility gains. When two or more plants of different species are planted close to each other, they are called companion planting. Moreover, Walliser investigates the interrelationships between plants in a single garden patch.

"Very well illustrated, can't wait to try these companions next year"

by Gardengal

This guide helps you manage a weekly plan of domestic duties. This 200-page book shows how easy vegetable farming is. Yes! Ron and Jennifer Kujawski wrote it. They explain how to construct weekly to-do lists. How to execute? The guide offers tips, ideas, and procedures for cultivating vegetables. You get three years’ worth of note pages to help your learning. To sum up, t’s an excellent book for beginning gardeners who desire a plan.

"This is a complete winner for it's simplistic and well-organized thought process."

by Just keeping businesses honest with truthful reviews

Even if you’ve grown vegetables in the country before, suburban gardening is a new ballgame! Amy Stross offers advice on how to go about doing so. These are some of the more challenging aspects of gardening that Stross addresses in this book. Moreover, she is also sharing some simple permaculture ideas. Readers can also learn how to make money from a micro-farm, which is helpful if you’re financially tight. In addition, the Nonfiction Book Awards 2018 awarded this book the Gold Medal.

"This is a very well written book for small time, in town gardening."

by Yellin' Ellen

Perhaps you’ve relocated to a region with a hotter climate, where the summer months can be fierce? Yes, you can grow vegetables in the Arizona desert in the middle of a severe drought. In the opinion of Maureen Gillmer, it is possible. Your crops will benefit from her advice on saving water and when to water your garden. Moreover, a seasonal crop guide helps you organize your garden and set reasonable goals. At the book’s core, you learn about your local climate and how to garden in hot and dry conditions.

"Loving this book! I live in the desert and this book is helping me accept that I won’t ever have a forest in my yard."

by Jacky Addeman

Creating a raised garden bed is a popular option for many gardeners. This book explains Raise-bed vegetable gardening step-by-step in this book by author Kendra K. He will walk you through setting up a raised bed and the most delicate veggies to plant in it. Raised beds relieve back strain, a significant benefit of gardening in one. But, hey, some backyard chores aren’t called “backbreaking” for nothing!

"I am new to raised gardening. This book provides enough information for getting started without being overwhelming. I am off to the garden store."

by Roger

The first few weeks of your veggie garden went well. Then you discover growing or planting issues. Identify? Diagnose plant problems if you’re new to vegetable gardening. Have you eaten plant leaves and diseased, wilting, or fading leaves? Lack of nutrients? Hard to choose! This book will help you solve problems rapidly. Therefore, David Deardorf and Kathryn Wadsworth will help you create the ideal vegetable growing conditions and diagnose plant problems.

"Awesome reference guide!! Offers the best insight on plant problem diagnostics. A must have for every gardener!!"

by Gigi S

You can always do gardening in the winter! When it comes to winter gardening, Eliot Coleman has a lot of experience. This book reveals that most of the United States receive more winter sunshine than southern France. Coleman’s book effectively discusses the challenge of making the most of that sunshine for greenhouse plants. This famous book is written in a conversational tone and is not technical. Therefore, if that’s the tone you like in a novel, you’ll love this one!

"Great book. Wish there were a way to speak with author. So many great low cost ideas! Highly recommend this book & the authors ideas! ?"

by Charmaine Blue

This book provides detailed information on storing vegetable seeds and growing veggies. Suzanne Ashworth’s article explains how to save seeds from 160 veggies. This book is one of the best for teaching new gardeners how to preserve seeds on a small scale. Read the tips on keeping roots for germination and getting sources to generate fresh vegetables efficiently—moreover, the 228 pages of knowledge on how to keep vegetable seedlings happy.

"Excellent book. Very detailed by vegetable. Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to start seed saving for the future."

by T. Williamson

Jason Johns covers greenhouse gardening in 160 pages. This book will teach you how to acquire and care for a greenhouse in its early years. Moreover, it covers greenhouse irrigation extensively, so your plants get watered automatically. In addition, the book also discusses protecting your greenhouse from solid winds and cleaning it to prevent pests and infections. Therefore. It is a fantastic introduction to greenhouse gardening.

"It’s a good intro read with great tips and overview. Perfect for beginners and very helpful. I highly recommend this."

by Noelle J.

Andrea Bellamy takes you to step by step through the process of making the most of your limited living quarters in 411 pages. This book covers various outdoor spaces, including balconies, patios, community garden plots, and small yards. Additionally, this book explains how pollution and pests could ruin a vegetable crop. In this book, novice gardeners will learn the fundamentals of gardening, for example, how to compost and which plants are suitable for their hardiness zones.

"This book gave us some good ideas. We were able to take from various things in book and come up with our garden plan."

by Kathryn LaCoss