--- product_id: 188385783 title: "Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home" price: "€ 45.30" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/188385783-vegetable-gardening-for-beginners-a-simple-guide-to-growing-vegetables store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home **Price:** € 45.30 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home - **How much does it cost?** € 45.30 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pt](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/188385783-vegetable-gardening-for-beginners-a-simple-guide-to-growing-vegetables) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Your First Garden―Simplified. Grow Fresh Vegetables with Confidence and Joy If you've ever wanted to grow your own food but felt overwhelmed, Vegetable Gardening for Beginners will guide you step-by-step―from your first seed to your first harvest. Written by Jill McSheehy, the voice behind The Beginner's Garden podcast, this book takes the mystery out of gardening. What you'll find inside: Garden design made easy ―Plans for raised beds, containers, or small in-ground spaces Beginner crop guides ―Simple how-tos for tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, herbs, melons, and more Smart growing strategies ―Soil basics, sun requirements, watering, mulching, and companion planting Troubleshooting help ―Natural ways to handle pests, disease, and uneven growth Planning tools ―Seasonal checklists, layout templates, and weekly task guides Grow with confidence―even if you've never planted a thing. Review: Great product. - Easy to follow and informative. Review: Some Good General Information - I picked up some pointers in this book. I guess I'm not exactly a beginner at this point since I've been taking care of someone else's established garden for about 9 years. So I have found out about some of this stuff over those years by talking to other people and on the internet. Some of the information in this book doesn't apply for me since I don't start plants indoors and I don't used raised beds. So I didn't read all the pages in this book. However we do usually get tomatoes that were started by somebody else in a greenhouse or maybe some from places like Home Depot. Some things I've learned and can recommend are: Get your soil tested by Cooperative Extension or someplace like that. With fertilizers more is not always better. My cucumber plants keep giving me a lot of foliage and flowers but not very many cucumbers. There's too much organic material (manure) in my soil and the pH level of the soil is 7.6 which is too alkaline. My soil report says all it needs is small amounts of nitrogen fertilizer right now and only at the beginning of the season. I have saved myself many hours of backbreaking work by covering the empty rows between the plants with a weed barrier fabric. These fabrics allow air and water to get into the soil but it blocks the sunlight to kill the weeds. This book mentions using mulch for the same purpose which I may do for the spaces between the individual tomato plants. Most cucumber varieties are designed by Nature to climb like a vine. I built some simple circular cages that I place around my cucumber mounds. I use the thin fencing wire with the square openings in it. I tie them into a circle with zip ties. You can make four cuts into the wire where four of the squares intersect. Remove the cross shaped cutout and bend the cut wires back to create a place to reach your hand into the cage. Wear gloves and safety glasses when working with this type or wire. The cut off ends of the wire are sharp and they can swing back and hit someone in the eye. Cut off or bend back the cut off wires at both ends of the cage also. Books like this talk about organic gardening methods which can apparently take a few years to work well. I use the deadly SEVIN pesticide when my plants first start growing and I even spray the SEVIN into the soil within the rows. But then I switch over to organic pesticides when the plants start getting flowers so as not to harm the bees. I may switch over to soaker hoses this year for watering. Soaker hoses don't get the leaves of the plants wet. Wet leaves can cause fungal diseases like powdery mildew on cucumbers and zucchini. There are traps that come with bait that are specifically designed to catch Japanese beetles which appear in large numbers at certain times of the year. Here's a bee safe product to kill the dreaded squash borer moth which destroys zucchini plants: Safer Brand 5163 Caterpillar Killer II Concentrate, 16 Oz ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #279,392 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #67 in Herb Gardening #77 in Vegetable Gardening #102 in Gardening & Horticulture Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,275 Reviews | ## Images ![Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Qlo4I50EL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great product. *by A***E on May 30, 2026* Easy to follow and informative. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Some Good General Information *by J***O on April 7, 2021* I picked up some pointers in this book. I guess I'm not exactly a beginner at this point since I've been taking care of someone else's established garden for about 9 years. So I have found out about some of this stuff over those years by talking to other people and on the internet. Some of the information in this book doesn't apply for me since I don't start plants indoors and I don't used raised beds. So I didn't read all the pages in this book. However we do usually get tomatoes that were started by somebody else in a greenhouse or maybe some from places like Home Depot. Some things I've learned and can recommend are: Get your soil tested by Cooperative Extension or someplace like that. With fertilizers more is not always better. My cucumber plants keep giving me a lot of foliage and flowers but not very many cucumbers. There's too much organic material (manure) in my soil and the pH level of the soil is 7.6 which is too alkaline. My soil report says all it needs is small amounts of nitrogen fertilizer right now and only at the beginning of the season. I have saved myself many hours of backbreaking work by covering the empty rows between the plants with a weed barrier fabric. These fabrics allow air and water to get into the soil but it blocks the sunlight to kill the weeds. This book mentions using mulch for the same purpose which I may do for the spaces between the individual tomato plants. Most cucumber varieties are designed by Nature to climb like a vine. I built some simple circular cages that I place around my cucumber mounds. I use the thin fencing wire with the square openings in it. I tie them into a circle with zip ties. You can make four cuts into the wire where four of the squares intersect. Remove the cross shaped cutout and bend the cut wires back to create a place to reach your hand into the cage. Wear gloves and safety glasses when working with this type or wire. The cut off ends of the wire are sharp and they can swing back and hit someone in the eye. Cut off or bend back the cut off wires at both ends of the cage also. Books like this talk about organic gardening methods which can apparently take a few years to work well. I use the deadly SEVIN pesticide when my plants first start growing and I even spray the SEVIN into the soil within the rows. But then I switch over to organic pesticides when the plants start getting flowers so as not to harm the bees. I may switch over to soaker hoses this year for watering. Soaker hoses don't get the leaves of the plants wet. Wet leaves can cause fungal diseases like powdery mildew on cucumbers and zucchini. There are traps that come with bait that are specifically designed to catch Japanese beetles which appear in large numbers at certain times of the year. Here's a bee safe product to kill the dreaded squash borer moth which destroys zucchini plants: Safer Brand 5163 Caterpillar Killer II Concentrate, 16 Oz ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book for a rookie gardener! *by N***M on April 23, 2026* Good book for rookies I just can’t get my husband on board for a veggie garden ## Frequently Bought Together - Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home - DK RHS How To Garden When You're New To Gardening: The Basics For Absolute Beginners --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pt/products/188385783-vegetable-gardening-for-beginners-a-simple-guide-to-growing-vegetables](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/188385783-vegetable-gardening-for-beginners-a-simple-guide-to-growing-vegetables) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-11-05*