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No patch of earth is too small to create a delectable vegetable garden when you have Vegetable Gardening For Dummies to help get you started. If you?ve always wanted to grow your own mouthwatering tomatoes, luscious lettuce, crisp, colorful carrots, and virtually any produce you love, you can make that happen with a little planning and care (not to mention the expert advice you get from this book!). After you taste how good homegrown vegetables are, you?ll never settle for supermarket produce again! Vegetable Gardening For Dummies guides you every step of the way with detailed instructions for everything from planning and preparing to planting, protecting, and harvesting. You discover ten almost "foolproof" vegetables to grow, and you find out how to enjoy new crops for months with succession planting. An entire chapter is dedicated to growing vegetables in containers on your roof or balcony if you don?t have a yard. More than a hundred illustrations throughout the book and tons of colorful photos provide inspiration and ideas for your own vegetable garden. Whether your goal is to grow all of your own food or simply to sneak a few edibles into your ornamental garden, you can find out all you need to know inside the covers of this book.