Book Review: Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden by Joe Hashman

Author of gardening guides How to Grow Your Own Food, A Vegetable Gardner?s Year, and On the Plot with ?Dirty Nails,? and weekly columnist ?Dirty Nails? of the Blackmore Vale Magazine, Joe Hashman?s newest book Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden is a comprehensive guide to the fruit and vegetable gardening year. He inducts readers into the world of gardening, providing the ultimate guide to the growing trend of fruit and vegetable gardens as more and more families of a new generation turn to growing their own produce.

The pocket guide features step-by-step, month-by-month procedures for ensuring a thriving home garden, with intricately detailed diagrams and drawings by Helen Lanchbery to help readers in their mission. Hashman has addressed the growing desire for good, locally-produced, wildlife-friendly food by helping his readers to be able to create their own gardens, enabling them to grow local rather than to ?buy local.?

In each month, Hashman provides a general background on the month, outlining the general goals and purposes to accomplish in each month. Although many do not consider gardening until spring, Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden illuminates the necessity of taking advantage of each month, whether it is a time to ?firm up your planting plans for next season? or ?have a good old tidy-up? and prepare the ground, facilitating time management and allowing you to enjoy your garden during the spring and summer with the work already complete. Each month is then easily broken down into manageable tasks with specific instructions, including ?General jobs to do,? ?Leaves & greens,? ?Roots, tubers and stems,? ?Veg fruit,? ?Onion tribe,? ?Peas & beans,? ?Edible flowers,? and ?Fruit garden.?

While starting a home fruit and vegetable garden may seem like a complex task to many, Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden uses language, format, and drawings that are accessible to anyone, demystifying the process and guaranteeing complication-free and confusion- free success. Joe Hashman is the ultimate guide to the ?world of possibility? that awaits anyone who desires to grow local.

Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden
ISBN 9781905862467
Spring Hill Books ? distributed in the US and Canada by Parkwest Publications
Paperback
B&w line drawings throughout
216 Pages
5.25 X 8.5
$20

Find out more about Parkwest Publications by visiting www.parkwestpubs.com.

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