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by Resh Gala (Author)
Supercharge your food garden while reducing your workload with over 80 detailed solutions, techniques, and methods that resolve some of gardening's most common challenges.
Illustrated with gorgeous photographs of inspiring gardens, projects in process, and tempting homegrown vegetables, and authored by Resh Gala, a professional kitchen garden designer, Vegetable Gardening Made Easy is filled with valuable advice every food gardener can use. No matter the size of your garden or your experience level, backyard veggie gardeners like you can use the practical information found inside to grow a more productive (and beautiful!) edible garden.Discover an abundance of useful tidbits on everything from designing the garden and starting from seed to maximizing production, managing pests naturally, and preserving the harvest. Organized in a stylish and easy-to-use format that prevents overwhelm, each page explains and illustrates an essential piece of core advice, offering plenty of eco-friendly information to lead you to success without making you feel like you need a science degree to make it happen. The format is perfect for today's time-starved gardeners! Among the abundance of growing tips and solutions, you'll find advice on:- Adding healthy biodiversity to your soil and boosting it with micronutrients
- Growing straighter carrots, spicier peppers, and plumper radishes
- Pruning tomatoes to enhance yields
- Hand-pollinating cucumbers and squash for higher production
- Choosing which crops to grow based on your space and needs
- Creative ways to sow tiny seeds
- Simple how-tos for preparing your harvest
- Storing onions, garlic, and potatoes long-term
- What to do when your plants turn yellow, have holes, or look sickly
Vegetable Gardening Made Easy is smart garden know-howpresented by a professional kitchen gardener who has "been there, done that" and wants nothing more than to see you succeed. Make it easy and make it fun!
Author Biography
Resh Gala is a small-space organic gardener from New Jersey who is passionate about encouraging people to grow their own food and live their best lives. She is also the founder and owner of a minority- and woman-owned business, Hundred Tomatoes LLC, that designs and installs organic kitchen gardens in NJ and surrounding areas. An Allotment Gardener at non-profit organization Duke Farms Community Gardens (part of the Dorris Duke Foundation), she also has an MBA degree in Marketing and Strategy. Resh was named 2020 Gardener of the Year by Burpee Home Gardens.
