Even a seasoned gardner is always looking for ways to make their efforts more productive. This book actually taught this old dog a couple of tricks. It's well worth your time to read and investigate the methods implemented by these successful gardeners.

I'm a wannabe gardener. I have plenty of space, I love vegetables, and I love canning. However, I'm short on time, patience, and motivation. The instructions in this book made me hopeful that I can get it together to garden successfully.

I appreciate the publisher allowing me to read this book. I found the subject matter really interesting. The book was well written and easy to understand. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you Netgalley for letting me read and review this book. This is a vegetable gardener's guide to having a great garden even with a small space. You can grow lots of vegetables no matter the amount of space you have. I liked the tips and photos in this book. Worth a read if you are new to gardening.

I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to have a sustainable and secure food source and those, like me, who when faced with obstacles and bouts of boredom, get discouraged and surrender halfway through the journey.

It's important to know how you can maximize your yield in the garden. I will definitely be applying these next year to my garden.

A very in-depth book on vegetable gardening, with a lot of information and explanations of gardening. Thank you to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for allowing me to read and review.

I'm still a novice gardener and I really enjoyed all of the information in this book. I'm going to attempt to put some of the information to good use in my garden this year.

🌱Book Review📗

Thank you to @netgalley and @storeypub for the eARC of Grow More Food. This book published on February 1st, but I actually just finished it the other day.

Since we have a garden, I thought reading a gardening book might give us some extra insight. Despite growing up on a farm, my husband didn’t actually take part in his parents’ garden growing up. He was the classic little boy not wanting to eat his vegetables, so why would he want to help grow them? 😆

This book is an excellent all around general resource for starting a garden and making it as fruitful as possible whether or not you have a very small parcel of ground to grow or a much larger operation. We are trying a couple of new methods in our garden this year based upon what I read in this book and I can’t wait to see our results!

Whether or not you’re a garden newbie or an expert gardener, this book will have something for you!

QOTD: Do you have a garden?

AOTD: Of course we have a garden and we even have a compost tumbler! That green thing outside our window is it!

P.S. So excited for these cucumber 🥒 plants this summer! 😋
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In these upcoming times of dystopia, we all need to get a little more self sufficient, in order to survive and allow ourselves a healthier lifestyle. This book will help you get the most from your home grown product's.

Take your veg growing up a notch

Refreshingly this book dives straight into how you can maximise productivity and yield and adapt them to a household scale. I found the sections on planning what to plant and when by the yield you need, extending the growing season, harvesting techniques and storage particularly useful. The planting plans and worksheets are pretty handy too.

If you like growing your own veg you’ll find plenty info that will help you get the best from all your hard work.

I really enjoyed this book. It gives so many ideas for a beginner gardener especially as if you are starting in a small space. With the detailed amount of information on the kind of crops for each season, this is a helpful guide to anyone who is new to gardening and plans to scale it up as they go. I loved some of the ideas they gave about mixing different crops to reduce disease and help increase overall production.

I received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review*

A very thorough and approachable guide to home gardening for food. For readers who love charts, there are plenty of tables to satisfy even the most thorough planner, from how many people various garden sizes will feed, to how to adjust the nutrients in your soil, to which types of vegetables can be planted together in rotation. There are sections on planning your garden, building beds, composting, weeding, growing from seeds or transplants, and much more. Lots of color photographs and illustrations. This is a great resource for any level home gardener. A must-add for midsize to large public library collections.

Grow More Food is written for serious gardeners. If you are an intermediate gardener and want to level up production, this book will help you do it. However, you should have at least two to three years of home gardening under your belt first. Alternatively, you can start here if you have the time and money to invest.

Grow More Food has advice for all types of edible gardening questions. There are worksheets for everything from planning to production notes. There are chapters on soil, irrigation, and propagation. It even explains how to graft two different vegetables together to improve production and/or pest tolerance. I learned a lot that isn’t in other gardening books. However, I did miss the page per vegetable format most of those books use. If you want to grow just a few, you will have to flip through the charts in various chapters. 4 stars!

Thanks to Storey Publishing and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

This is the absolute best gardening book that I have come across yet. The gardening advice is clearly written and supported by useful diagrams, pictures, and charts where needed. The information is well organized, making it easy to find specific information when wanting to refer to it again. Most important of all, the guidance is practical for the backyard gardener. There is a lot to take in though, so depending on the reader's gardening skills and knowledge, it may be best to apply a little at a time versus becoming overwhelmed and giving up. I am sure that I will be learning something new from this book each year. I am excited to start planning and am really looking forward to the upcoming growing season with this book at my fingertips. (Previously published under the title High Yield Vegetable Gardening.)

I am grateful to have received a complimentary copy from Storey Publishing via NetGalley without obligation. All opinions expressed here are my own.

Grow more food is a great resource for anyone that is new to gardening. It is very thorough, but also easy to understand. As someone that has been hoping to start their own vegetable garden for years now, I would highly recommend this book to others.

The visuals are impactful and the guidance is applicable. This is a timely topic currently so it’s good to see more books in this genre.

I am a gardener who normally grows ornamental plants. Last year my partner and I took on an allotment and although my background has helped me in planting and caring for the plot, I was feeling that I needed a bit of guidance in how to get more from it.

This book is brilliant for that, though written for the U.S market it gives good ideas on how to record your crops and work out windows when you might be able to squeeze in something extra. I’m slightly embarrassed to confess to being a bit of a spreadsheet geek and this book is definitely geared towards that. If available to the U.k market as a physical copy (which would make skipping through to find the information I was looking for easier) I would buy it.
The only negative I would say is that there is not enough about companion planting with flowering plants and herbs, organic methods and no-dig-all of which we are trying to employ and are becoming increasingly popular with gardeners worldwide. However this is not what the book is advertised as.

This is an in-depth book for how to optimize crop production in your garden. While I did enjoy the information I don't believe I will be using soon. I have only just gotten into gardening and with only a year under my belt crop rotation isn't a key to my garden yet. I think those who want to improve their garden will enjoy this book.

Grow More Food by Colin McCrate: Brad Halm is an intermediate gardeners Bible! If you already have gardening experience but want to step it up and add in the process of rotating and staggering crops, starting from seed, planning your garden for maximum yield of crops, taking soil samples, composting and fertilizing your garden, along with storage and harvesting techniques, this is the book you must have on hand. I learned a lot and took notes from this book. I'm hoping some of the techniques pay off and I grow more food this year!