Plant Grow Harvest Repeat - by Meg McAndrews Cowden (Paperback)

About the Book

In Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, home gardeners will learn how the principle of succession--one of the key dynamics of the natural world--can make their vegetable garden more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable in every season.

Book Synopsis

"Wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated, and everything you need to know to get more productivity out of your food garden." --Joe Lamp'l, creator and executive producer, Growing a Greener World

Discover how to get more out of your growing space with succession planting--carefully planned, continuous seed sowing--and provide a steady stream of fresh food from early spring through late fall.

Drawing inspiration from succession in natural landscapes, Meg McAndrews Cowden teaches you how to implement lessons from these dynamic systems in your home garden. You'll learn how to layer succession across your perennial and annual crops; maximize the early growing season; determine the sequence to plant and replant in summer; and incorporate annual and perennial flowers to benefit wildlife and ensure efficient pollination. You'll also find detailed, seasonal sowing charts to inform your garden planning, so you can grow more anywhere, regardless of your climate.

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat will inspire you to create an even more productive, beautiful, and enjoyable garden across the seasons--every vegetable gardener's dream.

Review Quotes

"Meg is always a wealth of information on succession planting and we cover her best tips for mastering the art of that gardening method and extending the growing season." --The Joe Gardener Show

"Full of wisdom, inspiration, and practical knowledge to help any gardener maximize production through creative thinking and strategic planning--naturally!"--Deanna Talerico, creator, Homestead and Chill

"Wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated, and everything you need to know to get more productivity out of your food garden." --Joe Lamp'l, creator and executive producer, Growing a Greener World

"Cowden is encouraging, offering a variety of tools for gardeners to try in their own spaces, but understanding that gardeners like the gardens they tend move and grow at their own pace." --The Northern Gardener

"Learning how, when, and what to succession plant is a skill that comes with experience, but you can take a shortcut by reading Plant Grow Harvest Repeat. Essential reading for all vegetable gardeners."--Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

"An incredible tome on getting the most out of your garden, big or small."--Kevin Espiritu, founder, Epic Gardening

"This master class will entice seasoned gardeners and newbies alike." --Publishers Weekly

"[An] inventive, commonsensible, effectively illustrated guide...A useful guide for readers in any hardiness zone, but especially those whose growing season is pinched--and just in time for the 2022 growing year." --Booklist

About the Author

Meg McAndrews Cowden is a self-taught organic gardener with an advanced degree in natural resource management. Having lived on both coasts and settled in the upper Midwest, she has knowledge and experience living, playing, and gardening in many different ecosystems, from the eastern hardwoods of southern New England, where she ran free as a child, to the majestic rain forests of the Pacific Northwest, where she found home in college, to the edge of the prairie outside Minneapolis, where she and her husband are raising their two boys. Follow her on Instagram @seedtofork.