Vegetable Gardening: From Planting to Picking - The ... (ISBN 0762106298)

Great resource with beautiful pictures:
I found this book to be very helpful and a great read. I really like the way it is organized and illustrated, the pictures are beautiful and informative. The authors took the time to make the book accessable for those who may not be fully acquainted with the art of veggie gardening... overall it is a worthwhile buy.

growing vegetables illustrated:
I bought this book for my son who is a beginning gardner. He has reviewed it and says it will be very helpful with his garden next spring.

Vegetable Gardening:
This is the book to have if you are just starting out in gardening. I had never planted a garden before and this book made my garden a huge success. It talks about lots of different types of gardens and then near the pack (really the last half of the book) it goes through all the different things you can plant, discusses when to plant them, how far apart to place them, how many you should plant for how many people you have in your family. It also talks about diseases and how to get rid of them. I have no complaints about this book.

Kitchen Garden Growers' Guide Author:
VEGETABLE GARDENING: FROM PLANTING TO PICKING is a classic Reader's Digest gardening guide: easy to use, well illustrated, not too long--in short, a reader's digest of how to get started vegetable gardening. There are lengthier, more detailed vegetable gardening guides for advanced beginners to experts -- Burpee : The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener : A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically and The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia are two commonly used. But this book by garden pros Fern Marshall Bradly and Jane Courtier is a solid starter. There are five sections covering the basics: Planning your garden; Preparing the ground; Sowing and planting; Making your vegetables grow; and Harvesting and storing. Each of these sections takes on basic garden techniques in a two-facing pages format (if it doesn't fit in two pages--you'll have to get a more thorough guide, see two above), often with helpful photographs. The second part of the book consists of ten plant profile sections broken out generally by plant families with growing tips for each plant: planting, care, and harvesting. A short glossary and resources guide rounds out the book. As an introduction to basic vegetable gardening, this book gets the job done.

For the Gardener:
From doing a trial and error garden for the past two years, this book gives a lot of information for all vegetables in one book. Also going into soil preparation, the subject matter is helping in so many aspects. Would recommend to any home gardener.