First, because it's that time of year, I want to say that this would make an incredible gift for someone's birthday or Christmas; Christmas especially, in my opinion. Winter can be difficult for gardeners who just want to get back out into the dirt and are instead staring at snow and ice. This would be a really thoughtful way to start planning their gardens and looking forward to the future when they can start reviving their garden!

This book is specifically for vegetable gardeners. Many books like this have gardening tips on how to get your plants to grow better, how to make a container garden, etc. This one is more about tracking so you can recreate your results every year or tweak where needed. It does have advice and it covers a huge range of vegetables. I like being able to record very specific items, like "was last year dry and is should I adapt this year?" and "when did I plant last year and did that work?" It's a great resource for anyone who wants to start a vegetable garden AND a seasoned gardener.

*I am reviewing an electronic ARC. That is the way the publisher provided it, but you can only buy this on Amazon in paperback form because you are meant to write in it*

The Vegetable Garden Planner was a well used resource throughout my planning and gardening season. The breakdown of information based on vegetable, the important things to note, and space to keep track from year to year are all extremely beneficial. It helped me to increase my garden yield, and I am looking forward to using it year after year.

A very handy guide to planting vegetables. However, it cemented knowledge rather than taught me anything new.

I'm always the worst at planning my vegetable patch, just scratching notes out on some random bit of paper. Then I lose it, of course, and have to try and go by memory. This planner is perfect, as it allows me to have everything all in one place and it is laid out really well, to give you the perfect planning method. Great wee planner for and gardener.

Very informative and interesting book. I highly write recommend it. Very educational. Very enjoyable

I didn't find anything earthshaking in this book. Nicely designed and an enjoyable read for general gardening advice, though. It provides an easy way to track your experiences in your own garden throughout the year, if that's the type of format you prefer.

This book is a great resource that I will reach for time and time again - first as a read-through, and then as a reference book.

Thank you to NetGalley for the digital ARC. My opinions are my own.

Handy book for those wanting to keep a log of the vegetables they grow - though it is aimed at growers in the US rather than England.

By individual crop the book covers the best way to start (seed or established), when to plant, best temperatures, germination time, harvesting and more depending on the plant. Each vegetable has space for you to fill in details of how it went plus there are additional tracking sheets if you wanted to try a different variety in the next growing season.

There are also recommendations for when to start the indoor and outdoor sowing in spring and autumn. There is an area to draw a garden plan though my kindle version had veggy drawings all over the page which where not watermarked/faded so might make it had to draw properly.

I received this book from netgalley in return for a honest review.

The Vegetable Garden Planner: A Crop-by-Crop Guide for Planning and Tracking Your Garden Bounty Each Year, from Seed Starting to Harvest by Lynn Byczynski is a handy guide that offers gardeners an easy way to track the growth and harvest of their vegetables from year to year. The book is organized alphabetically by vegetable, with several pages of note space for each crop so that readers can easily compare one year’s plant growth, variety performance and flavor, harvest amounts, weather trends, and pest pressure to those from previous years. Author and expert grower Lynn Byczynski offers sage advice throughout, for when and how to start seeds, when to harvest, and a wealth of insightful tips gleaned from her more than 40 years of farming and gardening. With high-quality paper and lay-flat binding, this is the perfect gift for any vegetable gardener.

The Vegetable Garden Planner is a helpful read, and I really like that the book is organized by crop rather than by season, this makes finding exactly the information you might need, whether it is a bit of information you remembered reading last year, what you did different, or dates of certain events like planting or frost that might have effected your gardening results. There is plenty of space for the reading gardeners notes for this very purpose. The information on the mentioned crops is good but not extensive, and I felt like there could have been less drawings of the plants and more information, or a wider variety of vegetables included. However, that could just be that I have already read up on the mentioned crops that I do grow, and the others included in the book would not be appreciated in my house or do not grow well in my area so I rarely try. I think this is a great resource for those that are just getting started with their vegetable gardening experience, and will help them plan and track what works and what does not. I think more experienced (read stubborn) gardeners are less likely to make use of and learn from this handy book.

Lynn Byczynski offers sage advice for when and how to start seeds, when to harvest, and a wealth of insightful tips from weather to zoning. As a relatively novice gardener myself, I found this guide to be filled with insightful advice and tools for improving the growth of a variety of seeds.

The planner is also so helpful! I’ll definitely be using the layout in all future setups.

As an experienced gardener I absolutely love the format of this planner. It is not like any others I have seen.

Thank you to Netgalley for letting me review The Vegetable Garden Planner. All opinions are my own.

Lynn has created a planner that helps the beginner to experienced gardener stay organized in the vegetable garden. Not only does she provide a place to keep accurate records each year by the crops you like to grow, she also gives you in depth knowledge on how to grow each crop.

There is also great information about learning how to start your own garden no matter where you live. She takes you step-by-step in planning out your vegetable garden space.

I will be recommending this garden planner to all my new gardening clients!
-Crystal Jarvis (owner of Lettuce Grow Something)

The best thing about this gardening journal is that it provides lots of extra pages! I love the way it’s broke down by plant, and should easily make a very handy reference for many years worth of notes. The helpful notes and quick guide on each crop for when to start etc is also well done. This is all the info I constantly find myself having to check, either on seed packets or online so it’s nice to have it all in one spot for easy reference.

This is an excellent garden planner and journal. It gives you frost date information as well as in depth information on a variety of vegetables with a section for each vegetable for you to note when it was planted and any notes on its success/failure.

As someone who has tried using a plain notebook to keep track of garden information (and failed), I know this pre-formatted guide will be very handy.

Although dozens of different vegetables are listed, there are over 100 extra blank crop pages for you to use should you want to journal about a crop not listed or if you need more space than what is already there.

Thank you, NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the ARC.

This fabulous book is a must-have resource for anyone wanting to begin gardening or seasoned gardeners looking for a little more organization in their planning..

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this Arc in exchange for an honest review.

Although I adored the design and layout of this book, I am having trouble using it practically because it is intended for the American market. The websites provided to estimate frost dates, for instance, only function for US towns and zipcodes; the USDA Plant Hardiness Zones have no meaning for me; and all measures are in inches with no mention of metric. It's wonderful that the temperatures are given in both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Although it can be helpful to those of us who reside in Europe, I would make sure that people were aware that it is mostly focused on the United States.

ARC provided by NetGalley and the publisher, for an honest review

"The Vegetable Garden Planner" is an outstanding resource for anyone interested in cultivating a vegetable garden or having a dedicated vegetable section. It offers ample space for note taking and meticulous tracking of your vegetable progress. It provides a wealth of information about each vegetable and herb, from planting guidelines to temperature requirements, as well as suggestions. This planner actually makes me excited to start garden planning and hopefully getting some positive results! I'm going to add a physical copy of this planner to my wish list – it's an essential tool for garden enthusiasts. 5 stars from me!

This is a beautiful tool to help with garden planning! I would recommend this for anyone getting into gardening or wishing to become more organized as a gardener. This a very informative tool with lots of space for planning.

I’m really impressed with the layout of this planner/journal. It provides in depth details about seed starting, transplanting, and harvesting the crop. It is also equipped with information about seed depth, days to germination, germination temperature, growing temperature, spacing and much more. The author did a fantastic job providing specific information about each plant that a beginner gardener needs to know. She also supplied ample space for note taking and journaling.

I loved this planner. It feels like exactly what I have been looking for. I got a digital copy to review, which means I could not use it. So I am going to go ahead and put this on my wish list for Christmas (I want a physical copy of about 1 in 10 books that I read, this is a great compliments to the workmanship).

It is easy to use, it is clearly organized, it is helpful for me as someone who is a beginning gardener (I am at the end of my first chaotic year to just start a darn garden and plant something! Next year is hopefully more organized),

I think this will help any gardener, new or old, and I look forward to seeing it on shelves and to getting one myself!

The Vegetable Garden Planner: A Crop-by-Crop Guide for Planning and Tracking Your Garden Bounty Each Year, from Seed Starting to Harvest
Lynn Byczynski
The Vegetable Garden Planner will make a great gift for the gardener in your life. Author Lynn Byczynski realizes that the art to successful gardening begins before you start planting. She takes each type of crop and discusses how to successfully grow it, next to that is a page for you to record your experience raising it. “As experienced gardeners know, keeping track of your garden is essential to improving it. If you are diligent about writing down everything you do, you can easily duplicate successes and avoid failures.”
There is a page to record the average frost date and the actual frost date. Byczynski discusses which crops tolerate frost and which plant can be succession planted. There is a schedule for planting various crops both indoors and outdoors. I found the section on layout and rotation very interesting as well as which plants make great companions. There are a number of pages for laying out your garden.
Each vegetable has dozens of varieties. I always like to try at least one new variety of each vegetable as well as plant my old proven standbys. I have purchased a new variety and found that I like it better than the old one but when I go to order it the next year, I can’t remember which one it was. By making note of the vegetable, the variety, where I purchased it and the end results, I am making my next growing season easier.
I decided to try my hand at container gardening this year. I had mixed results. By recording the experience in my journal, I will know how long it took the seed to pop its head through the ground, how long it took the plant to bloom, how long it took the bloom to set fruit. I love to raise herbs for cooking there is a guide for planting each herb.