Midwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, ... (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

This book was brought to my attention when my local PBS station was giving it away as a membership gift if you called that night to make a donation. They said it was a great gardening resource for both beginners and expert gardeners. Intrigued, I bought this item with expectations that it would be a nice resource to have in my library. I wasn't disappointed.This book has a lot of info of the common vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs grown in the Midwest region. The pictures were nice and the descriptions were made for a beginning gardener. Experienced gardeners may be disappointed with the content, as they would already know the dos and don'ts of edible gardening. If you are looking to plant unusual crops or find lessor known plant descriptions, this is not the book for you. Like I said before, it covers the common items most gardeners want to learn to grow. But I found it a great go to resource to quick look up and verify information just the same.

I really felt like I could follow with what it was saying and learn from this book very easy for being a beginner gardener

The guidance for vegetable planting is clear and generally comprehensive. The information will be a useful guide to gardeners new to growing conditions in the Midwest USA.

This is an excellent, well written, well organized book for a gardening novice such as myself. I’m excited to put it into practice.

I read this book while I was at work for my 8 hour shift. I will say that I knew most of the things in this book, but it will improve your knowledge of planting in the Midwest zones. It showed things like how to start the seeds where to plant them and even companion planting. I highly recommend this book for both experienced and non-experienced gardeners.

I got this because I am new to the Midwest and it has definitely been very full of resources and great knowledge for me and about everything around here.

An enjoyable read and full of good information for Missouri and the rest of the Midwest.

Not as organized as I'd hoped. I was looking for something a little more consistently laid out. Same sections for each veggie so I could plan accordingly. But some sections would include planting timing and soil temperature and others would skip that and cover only spacing. On the plants where all subjects were covered, it was organized differently. Just hard easily to get all the info about a vegetable or fruit that I needed. Good info, just messy.