The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest - (Regional Vegetable Gardening) by Lorene Edwards Forkner (Paperback)

About the Book

This Timber Press Guide features an A-Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Pacific Northwest and provides basic care and maintenance for each.

Book Synopsis

How to grow your own food in the Pacific Northwest!

There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening. What to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are unique decisions based on climate, weather, and first and last frost.
The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening: Pacific Northwest is a growing guide that truly understands the unique eccentricities of the Northwest growing calendar. The month-by-month format makes it perfect for beginners and accessible to everyone--you can start gardening the month you pick it up. Starting in January? The guide will show you how to make a seed order, plan crop rotations and succession plantings, and plant a crop of microgreens. No time to start until July? You can start planting beets, carrots, chard, kale, parsnips, and spinach for an early fall harvest.

This must-have book is for gardeners in Oregon, Washington, southeastern Alaska, and British Columbia.

From the Back Cover

Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest are lucky indeed. Ample rainfall, good soil, and moderate temperatures grant us a long and hospitable growing season capable of yielding an ever-changing menu of seasonal and hyper-local food. But how do you maximize that brief summer heat so your tomato dreams can come true? Which month should you sow the carrot or beet seeds? And come October, how can you make all those raked leaves work for you?

In this straightforward and encouraging book, Lorene Edwards Forkner answers these questions while covering the many eccentricities of gardening in western Washington and Oregon, and southern British Columbia. Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden from January through December. The skill sets go beyond the basics with tutorials on seed saving, worm bins, and more. This book also includes a comprehensive gardening primer and an A to Z of edibles--a detailed, invaluable source for the region's tried-and-tested varieties.

Rain or shine, peas or potatoes, this is your guide to producing a bountiful, year-round harvest in the Pacific Northwest.

Review Quotes

"Straightforward, clear and packed with information." --Pacific Northwest Magazine

"This is the book that I would give to a neighbor or friend looking to get started at vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest." --Garden Therapy

"The perfect guide to pick up right now to get started on our gardens! Forkner...has done a superb job of gathering pertinent information for this fantastic growing area and the types of vegetables we can plant here." --NW Book Lovers

"A growing guide that truly understands the unique eccentricities of the Northwest growing calendar." --City Farmer News

"A great new addition to the all-season gardener's book shelf--a modern, concise and accessible guide that assumes we will be actively planning, working and harvesting in our gardens more or less all year round." --The Eugene Weekly

"So simple and clear to understand." --Adventures in Dressmaking