Vegetable growing books?

I'm new to all this vegetable growing so I'm looking for a good Complete Vegetable growers guide book. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd really like there to be a book out there somewhere with ether pictures or diagrams that shows you how the patches should be prepared properly.

Also I'm curious on how everyone else who reads this learned how to grow?

 

Hiya Allan.

I don't think you could go far wrong with this

 

The problem I've found with the more recent vegetable growing books is that they are a bit vague on information that you really need. I had a couple of books on veg growing like the carol klein one and the Alan titchmarsh one but found them both too vague.

This book I picked up for free in my local free bookshop and it's the only book I use for information now. It tells you how to store your produce as well as how to grow it, which I found so useful for me.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Food-Garden-Preserve-Fruit-Vegetables/dp/0276001702

 

I've got that book and it's excellent.

 

I recommend my two 'Bibles' both by the now sadly departed Geoff Hamilton:

"Successful Organic Gardening" - I.S.B.N. 0-86318-200-3.

"Gardener's World Practical Gardening Course" I.S.B.N. 1-85613-365-6

Covers everything you should need to know and explained simply and easily understood.

Cheers, Tony.

 

I've learnt alot from this book - planning, disease, varieties to choose:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/RHS-Complete-Gardeners-Manual-DK/dp/1405365838/ref=pd_sim_b_6

but this is my quick reference book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allotment-M...=1378218045&sr=8-2&keywords=veg+growing+month

 

I've also got that one (and 2 copies - incase I lose one - of the Readers Digest 'Food from Your Garden').

 

For a more indepth book I rate Joy Larkcom "Grow your own vegetables"

But for now just go with Freddy's suggestion of "The Vegetable and Herb Expert" by D. G. Hessayon. Brilliantly laid out, all the reference information you will ever need, info. on bugs and diseases. If you buy one book only, get that one.

It won't tell you how to dig, or help you with how to make compost, or which green manures suit which soils ... but it has everything you need for growing veg. For the rest just ask questions here

 

I've got that (try and find one I haven't got) and her 'Vegetables From Small Gardens' (both from charity shops), but there's more detail in 'Grow Your Own Vegetables'. No colour pics, just packed with loads of information.