The Southern Kitchen Garden: Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers Essential for the Southern Cook

I love to garden and have numerous gardening books, but this is the one I refer to over and over when I am planning and preparing to plant! The planting time chart in the front of the book is worth the price all by itself! It is an easy to read chart for time frames of planting each vegetable - actually two charts, because one is for spring and one is for fall. It is based on average freeze dates, so it is easy to determine the ideal time for your specific area. It even has a listing of multiple cities in various southern states showing the dates for freeze probability at 10%, 50% and 90%. Then, of course, there is the planting information about specific vegetables, herbs, and fruits. This is an all-around, get-your-hands-in-the-dirt gardening guide. It is not just an armchair gardener book. I have some of those, too, and enjoy reading them, even lend them to friends and family. I am not willing to lend this one, which is why I bought another copy. I gave this copy to my daughter who is getting into gardening. She lives nearby, but we will both need this book at the same time. She can borrow some of the others I have, but not this one!

This book is very helpful if you already have a basic knowledge of gardening and need specific advice on unique needs of the southern garden climate. I will definitely be referring back to it over and over.

This entertaining book recommends plants that grow well in my area. It also tells me when to plant seeds of various plants. I've just started my garden and am looking forward to great success!

Fabulous information for the beginner and the experienced southern garden. Particularly like the planting charts and suggestions for vegetable varieties.

This came highly recommended by a woman who doubled her garden yield using it! Absolutely the best guide for veggie gardening in the South, including Florida. Arrived in excellent condition and within less than specified timeframe.

A Southern gardener's must have.

Handy, informative, and easy to follow!

There's a lot of good info in here, and I like the division of warm versus cool weather gardens. However, the information is a mile wide and an inch deep. In a few places it's two inches deep. This is a good starting place (and probably better the closer you are to Texas) and great for getting ideas, but you're probably going to need to read elsewhere for deeper information.