The Vegetable Gardening Book

PREFACE: The Joy and Importance of Growing Your Own Food
INTRODUCTION
Start Here
It's All About the Soil
Plant Basics
Where to Grow Your Food
Feeding Your Plants
Seeds and Seedlings
Getting the Timing Right
Mulch Matters
Getting the Watering Right
Extending the Season
Insects and Bugs: Friend or Foe?
Diseases: Managing the Inevitable
GROW GUIDES: The Fab 40 for Filling Your Vegetable Garden
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX

Joe Lamp’l (aka joe gardener®) is one of the country’s most recognized and trusted personalities in gardening and green living. With over 30 years of real-world growing experience, Joe was the host of Fresh from the Garden on the DIY Network, where he taught viewers how to grow vegetables from seed to harvest, with each of 50+ episodes dedicated to an entirely new crop. Currently, he is the creator and Emmy-winning host of public television’s Growing a Greener World, which has aired for 12 seasons (200 episodes) and is still going strong. The program airs in 96% of the US and in numerous countries.
Joe has been an on-air contributor for NBC’s The Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, and The Weather Channel. His podcast, The joe gardener® Show, is the #1 most-listened-to gardening podcast in the country. His conversations with professionals, book authors, plant breeders, and others in the green industry and gardening world are downloaded by millions of listeners every year.
As the founder and “Joe” behind the successful brand joegardener.com and the Online Gardening Academy™ he has created an ever-growing network of resources dedicated to all things gardening. His videos and blog posts are viewed by hundreds of thousands each and every month, and his comprehensive online courses encourage and inspire a growing number of students to become better gardeners in their own backyards. Joe and his family live on a small farm just north of Atlanta, Georgia.