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Vegetable Gardening From the Ground Up - Book Blitz and Giveaway

2/18/2022

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Vegetable Gardening From the Ground Up
by Stephanie Suesan Smith
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Genre: How-To, DIY Gardening 

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Beginning vegetable gardeners can harvest bountiful produce the first year.

Even a beginner can succeed without enduring trial and error methods by following the clear, concise instructions in Vegetable Gardening

From The Ground Up. In this book, Dr. Smith explains the keys to:


Understand basic climate factors for your site

Choose a traditional, raised bed, container, square-foot, or lasagna garden
Ready the garden plot
Order the seeds and plants
Start the potential vegetables correctly
Fertilize the plants
Mulch your flourishing plants appropriately
Control pests, diseases, and other problems
Safely use pesticides
Harvesting your bountiful produce
Safely store the harvest
Save seeds and/or trade them
Care for the garden plot between seasons
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If you’re ready to discover the joy of growing your own nutritious and delicious food, click the buy button now!


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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Like the Victory Gardens in World War II, more and more vegetable gardens are springing up in back yards and vacant lots across the world. It is possible to grow an abundance of food in a small space. However, just like the recipe for rabbit stew that starts “First, catch a rabbit,” it is necessary to research and plan before the planting. This book guides you through those steps so you can grow food for yourself and your family.
On first glance, setting up your garden by following these steps may seem like a lot of trouble.  Keep in mind you only have to do that once to have years of wonderful, flavorful produce.  Harvesting the vegetables you grow will be worth the initial hard work.  Nothing from a grocery store or vegetable market can compete with fresh, healthy, just picked vegetables from your own garden.


​A Quick Overview

Starting a new garden can be daunting. It needn’t be, though. Follow a few simple steps correctly, and you are ready to plant your seeds. What steps, you ask? These steps:
Chose a site
Plan your garden
Prepare the Soil
Add Organic Matter
Irrigation and Drainage
Problem Control
Pesticide Safety
Seed Saving
Cover Crops
Here is a brief discussion of each step.  I will discuss them more in depth later in the book.

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Stephanie Smith, PhD., is a Master Gardener who was born in Dallas, Texas, longer ago than she cares to mention. Stephanie began gardening as soon as she could stick an onion start in the ground. Her father taught her to grow things to eat, and that is her specialty. She is a member of the Texas Master Gardeners Association and the Dallas County Master Gardener Association. She was awarded 2014 Master Gardner of the Year for Hunt County, Texas. Things of beauty are also important, so she grows African violets, is a member of the African Violet Society of America, and a member of the Alpha African Violet Society of Dallas.

Stephanie was first published by a national magazine in 1990 and has since been published in several periodicals. Gardening articles have appeared in Animal Wellness, 903 Magazine, and the Greenville Herald Banner, among numerous other places. Articles and technical papers in psychology make up the balance of her periodical publications.

Stephanie received a B.S. in psychology from Texas Christian University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from Texas A&M University. Currently, she resides in Dallas with her toy poodle, Jewel.

Visit Stephanie's vegetable website, https://stephaniesuesansmith.com , and read her blog, view her photographs, and participate in the conversations going on there. Feel free to ask gardening questions or leave a comment on one of the blog posts. Her garden content writer website is https://gardencopywriter.com. She has many gardening articles online and her portfolio is at https://gardencopywriter.com/garden-writing/.


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28 Comments
Bernie Wallace
2/18/2022 06:28:06 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Stephanie Suesan Smith link
2/18/2022 10:38:04 am

I wrote most of it as blog posts. I then spent about a month gathering the material and putting it in order. I wrote some sections, too.

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Kari B
2/18/2022 07:40:52 am

Love this! I've been wanting to start a vegetable garden ever since I moved out of the city. This sounds like a great place to start with my project.

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Stephanie Suesan Smith link
2/18/2022 10:39:08 am

I hope it inspires you to get planting.

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LeonieT
2/18/2022 08:33:07 am

I always wanted a veggie garden but have no green fingers. This book seems like a must for me.

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Stephanie Suesan Smith link
2/18/2022 10:40:21 am

Anybody can learn to grow vegetables. Use this book as a guide and watch your brown thumb turn green.

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Rita Wray
2/18/2022 08:46:07 am

Sounds interesting.

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Barbara Montag
2/18/2022 09:34:42 am

Since I am a gardener would so enjoy this book!
Thank you for sharing it.

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Eva Millien
2/18/2022 09:45:59 am

Congratulations on your release of Vegetable Gardening from the Ground Up, which sounds like a book that I really need! Good luck with your book and the tour! Thanks for sharing it with me and have a fantastic weekend!

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Bea LaRocca
2/18/2022 10:40:46 am

Thank you for sharing your bio and book details and for offering a giveaway. My foster parents had an amazing garden and I used to tend to it when I was a teenager, I remember everything tasting so much better then. I would love to have a garden of my own and this book would certainly be helpful

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bn100
2/18/2022 12:39:57 pm

looks interesting

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wendy hutton
2/18/2022 01:56:56 pm

now this book speaks to me lol I love gardening

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Beyond Comps
2/18/2022 03:27:40 pm

Great cover!

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Victoria Alexander
2/18/2022 04:40:57 pm

Great post - thanks for sharing!

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Jon Heil
2/18/2022 04:45:56 pm

Learning about the items before you have them on the table to eat!

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Marcy Meyer
2/18/2022 05:36:10 pm

Sounds like a very informative book.

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Debbie P
2/18/2022 05:54:20 pm

I very much want to get this book. I love gardening but there is always a lot more to learn.

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Sherry
2/18/2022 08:46:49 pm

Sounds like a interesting book.

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Stephanie Jones
2/19/2022 02:30:51 am

looks like a good book

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Michele Soyer
2/19/2022 06:23:18 am

I really need this book. Cannot wait to buy it.

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Christina Gould
2/19/2022 06:56:26 am

I love the cover and the book exerpt! Thanks for the giveaway!

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K
2/19/2022 02:45:44 pm

What a great read! Very interesting! :)

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Terri Quick
2/19/2022 03:28:57 pm

Loving the cover

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LYNN CLAYTON
2/19/2022 09:43:06 pm

looks.good

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Wendy Jensen
2/20/2022 11:41:12 am

The book details are great but even someone who has gardened for a long time can use new information to help make a bountiful crop.

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Susan Smith
2/20/2022 12:59:35 pm

This sounds like an informative book. I have always thought about starting a garden.

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Karin
2/21/2022 08:45:35 am

A very useful book

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Renata
2/21/2022 09:34:53 pm

Interesting book!!

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