Reddit reviews The Everything Grow Your Own Vegetables Book: Your Complete Guide to planting, tending, and harvesting vegetables

Have been growing a garden since probably June 1999 with my Dad. It slowly expanded into around to around a 60 plant garden.

I won't retype what everyone else has already said but will add that getting some fish emulsion for tomatoes really helps it, don't over water and put some chicken wire around your plot(Buried ~2 feet deep).

We grow: Tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, basil, oregano, and peppers(Avoid late season and arid climate ones). Plant a sage bush nearby to get a steady flow of bees.

If you are are beginner try growing some cherry tomato plants, they are pretty hard to screw up and are very good.

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