“The handbook's month-by-month structure is easy to follow, helping the reader plan, prepare, plant, and harvest. . . . This guide has solid information packed with common sense.”

- Publishers Weekly

“Whether you're gardening in Alabama or Arizona, these guides offer monthly planting calendars with instructions for all four seasons.”

- CookingLight

“Emphasizes the importance of knowing one’s garden and its various microclimates.”

- NYBG Plant Talk

“An absolute delight to look at and to hold. . . . a gardening book that you will want to refer to often.”

- Washington Gardener

“It’ll turn even an apprehensive dirt-digger into an obsessive vegetable gardener, and a successful one at that.”

- Garden & Gun

“Great, beginner-oriented gardening book. . . . it piles on the tips, charts and checklists.”

- The Denver Post

“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

“This book is everything a backyard gardener could want in an instructional guide. . . . Whether you are a newbie gardener or a gardening veteran, there will be something to learn with this book.”

- The Revolving Bookcase

“The writing here is as crisp as the layout. . . . Best of all, it’s hard to think of anything NOT covered here. . . and yet there’s no sense of the text book in these pages, and only that homey feel one gets while actually gardening. Nicely done.”

- Woodstock Times