Week-By-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook: Perfectly Timed Gardening For Your Most Bountiful Harvest Ever - Softcover

Kujawski, Jennifer; Kujawski, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603426949 ISBN 13: 9781603426947

Publisher: Storey, 2011

In Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Hand- book, authors Ron and Jennifer Kujawski take the guesswork out of gardening with weekly to-do lists that break gardening down into easily manageable tasks. Suitable for all gardening zones, the book offers easy instructions for set- ting up a personalized schedule based on your last frost date. The Kujawskis are an inspiring father- daughter team who share their own triumphs, mistakes, and misadventures over many years spent together in the vegetable patch. Readers will enjoy the friendly direction and advice these veterans offer. Easy-to-read boxes, bulleted lists, charts, and detailed how-to illustrations make each week's activities clear and doable. Spots for record-keeping encourage readers to track their own successes and fine-tune their weekly schedules from year to year. Inch by inch, row by row, week by week, gardeners will move confidently through the gardening season. Whether it's planting the strawberries, pinching off the pumpkin blossoms, checking for tomato hornworm, or harvesting the carrots, they will know exactly when and how to do it for the most bountiful harvests and the most enjoyable vegetable-growing experiences ever.

About the Author:

Jennifer Kujawski grew up helping in the family garden. She has many memories of the experience, both fond (eating peas straight from the pods) and not-so-fond (squashing potato beetles between rocks). Jennifer earned degrees in botany and horticulture and worked as the assistant manager of USDA's National Plant Materials Center in Beltsville, Maryland. She has written articles for numerous publications, including American Nurseryman and Native Plants Journal and was one of the authors of the Community Forest Buffer Guide (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 2001). Jennifer currently works as a freelance writer and editor for such organizations as University of Massachusetts Extension, USDA's Forest Service, and Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association. She is passing along the family gardening tradition to her young son in the 2,000 square foot vegetable garden she tends with her father. Ron Kujawski's indoctrination into vegetable growing began at an early age, when he worked on a family onion farm in upstate New York. That experience provided the motivation to pursue a career that involved teaching and research in plant sciences and horticulture. Though now retired, he continues to write, lecture, and consult in the horticultural field while maintaining a passion for gardening, which he shares with his daughter, Jennifer, a professional horticulturalist.

From the Back Cover:

WHAT TO DO AND WHEN TO DO IT

Daily and Weekly To-Do Lists

Easy-to-follow lists help you plan, plant, and care for a productive, organic vegetable garden.

Works for Every Gardening Zone

You schedule every gardening activity around your region's last frost date, so the lists work in every zone, whether your final frost is in February or May.

A Customized Gardening Journal

Write it in, refer to it in the garden, get it dirty. You will rely on this book as the journal that carries you from one successful growing season to the next.

• Publisher: Storey
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1603426949
• ISBN 13: 9781603426947
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 200