--- product_id: 215669056 title: "The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1)" price: "€ 43.68" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pt/products/215669056-the-first-time-gardener-growing-vegetables-all-the-know-how store_origin: PT region: Portugal --- # The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1) **Price:** € 43.68 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1) - **How much does it cost?** € 43.68 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/215669056-the-first-time-gardener-growing-vegetables-all-the-know-how) ## 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 You’re excited to plant your first vegetable garden—but where to start? In The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables , you’ll find the answers you’re looking for. *Winner of the GardenComm 2022 Media Awards Silver Award of Achievement in the Photography/Book General Readership Category* Homesteader Jessica Sowards, the warm and energetic host of YouTube’s Roots and Refuge Farm, is the perfect teacher for new gardeners, offering not just know-how but inspiration and time-management tips for success . Before you sink your hands into the soil, she’ll answer all those questions rolling around inside your head: Where do I put my new garden? How do I prepare the soil? What vegetables should I plant? Is it better to start new plants from seed or should I buy transplants? What about watering, feeding, and taking care of my garden? What do I do if bugs show up? There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. Not only will you learn how to prepare, plant, and tend your first vegetable garden , you’ll also learn: How to design an eco-friendly layout How to grow with the seasons How to maximize your harvest, even if you only grow in a small space Jessica wants your first food-growing experience to be a positive one, and she’s prepared to go the distance to make sure tending the earth becomes your new favorite hobby. A single growing season is all it takes to fall in love with growing your own healthy, organic, nutrient-dense food . With Jessica as your guide, you’ll soon discover all the satisfactions, challenges, and great joys of growing your own food garden. This book is part of The First-Time Gardener’s Guides series from Cool Springs Press, which also includes The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers and The First-Time Gardener: Raised Bed Gardening . Each book in The First-Time Gardener’s Guides series is aimed at beginner gardeners and offers clear, fact-based information that’s presented in a friendly and accessible way, including step-by-step instructions and full-color illustrations throughout. Review: Excellent Resource: Filled with Knowledge and Encouragement - This book was written for me. I’m a first-time gardener this year. Okay, I realize it was also written for everyone else that wanted an easy-to-understand book to help them realize success in their gardening endeavors. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, learning, and finding answers to questions, even some I originally thought were, perhaps, dumb. The book has a great layout and it is easy to reference the section I need to re-read at any given time. The photos are not only beautiful but also very useful. Even better, the author, Jessica Sowards, made me feel comfortable leaving the holding pattern I was in and actually doing some gardening this year. Her encouragement allowed me to find confidence to try and her honesty prepared me to understand that there would be ups and downs, successes and failures but it was okay and absolutely part of the process. She told me I could grow food, even if I thought my thumb was black. She was right. My first harvest was a cucumber, recently enjoyed for lunch. It was delicious and I’m giddy with the success of growing it. Some books are valuable beyond the price you pay and more like a gift from the author. This is one of those books. Highly recommended! Review: It Has What You Need! - It is Jessica Sowards who inspired me to want to become a gardener through her Youtube Channel. I'm glad to finally have her book! You get years of wisdom when you buy this book. With this book you have all the information you need to get started, and more. As you garden you'll need to find solutions to problems as they arise. She encourages you to keep a garden journal to record your outcomes and let the garden teach you valuable lessons. It's about learning and growing yourself also! She's honest about the fact that gardening is hard work; that every gardener will make mistakes and sometimes fail; and that there will be situations that cannot be controlled, only overcome. Throughout the book she encourages you to persevere just as she does, because the rewards are worth it. It's helpful to keep these realities in mind and let go of any romanticized view of gardening. I like that when she offers various alternatives for your garden, she also addresses the way to properly use them and cautions about what could go wrong if you don't. She has a heart for your success, and tells you in advance so you can avoid setback and discouragement. Just a few highlights of what I appreciate about the book: ⦁ The foundation of what every garden must have to produce food, the "non-negotiables", are laid out before you, as well as the "negotiables" which are the decisions you make based on your needs, your landscape conditions, and your personal preferences and creativity. ⦁ The pros and cons of various options help you make well-informed decisions. ⦁ Insights about issues I'd never considered are shared in this book. For me, it's helpful to read it several times to make sure those nuggets of wisdom sink in. ⦁ It's written in a friendly, conversational style as if your gardening friend is teaching you -- and she is! ⦁ Jessica is an expert communicator. She knows how to write concisely without unnecessary words. Because it is so well-written, there's a lot of information, helpful tips and encouragement covering all the bases of growing your own food, packed in a comfortable sized book. ⦁ Inspiring photos of her garden and the text are artistically arranged to make it a pleasant, relaxing read. It's packed with info, yet easy on the eyes because it feels more green, than stark white space on the pages. Jessica has a heart for gardening, for people, and for teaching her passion to others. That love certainly comes through her writing. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #84,307 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #54 in Vegetable Gardening #65 in Organic & Sustainable Gardening & Horticulture | | Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 4,643 Reviews | ## Images ![The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables: All the know-how and encouragement you need to grow - and fall in love with! - your brand new food garden (Volume 1) (The First-Time Gardener's Guides, 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/913LtJNmobL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent Resource: Filled with Knowledge and Encouragement *by K***N on April 16, 2021* This book was written for me. I’m a first-time gardener this year. Okay, I realize it was also written for everyone else that wanted an easy-to-understand book to help them realize success in their gardening endeavors. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, learning, and finding answers to questions, even some I originally thought were, perhaps, dumb. The book has a great layout and it is easy to reference the section I need to re-read at any given time. The photos are not only beautiful but also very useful. Even better, the author, Jessica Sowards, made me feel comfortable leaving the holding pattern I was in and actually doing some gardening this year. Her encouragement allowed me to find confidence to try and her honesty prepared me to understand that there would be ups and downs, successes and failures but it was okay and absolutely part of the process. She told me I could grow food, even if I thought my thumb was black. She was right. My first harvest was a cucumber, recently enjoyed for lunch. It was delicious and I’m giddy with the success of growing it. Some books are valuable beyond the price you pay and more like a gift from the author. This is one of those books. Highly recommended! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It Has What You Need! *by M***N on October 6, 2022* It is Jessica Sowards who inspired me to want to become a gardener through her Youtube Channel. I'm glad to finally have her book! You get years of wisdom when you buy this book. With this book you have all the information you need to get started, and more. As you garden you'll need to find solutions to problems as they arise. She encourages you to keep a garden journal to record your outcomes and let the garden teach you valuable lessons. It's about learning and growing yourself also! She's honest about the fact that gardening is hard work; that every gardener will make mistakes and sometimes fail; and that there will be situations that cannot be controlled, only overcome. Throughout the book she encourages you to persevere just as she does, because the rewards are worth it. It's helpful to keep these realities in mind and let go of any romanticized view of gardening. I like that when she offers various alternatives for your garden, she also addresses the way to properly use them and cautions about what could go wrong if you don't. She has a heart for your success, and tells you in advance so you can avoid setback and discouragement. Just a few highlights of what I appreciate about the book: ⦁ The foundation of what every garden must have to produce food, the "non-negotiables", are laid out before you, as well as the "negotiables" which are the decisions you make based on your needs, your landscape conditions, and your personal preferences and creativity. ⦁ The pros and cons of various options help you make well-informed decisions. ⦁ Insights about issues I'd never considered are shared in this book. For me, it's helpful to read it several times to make sure those nuggets of wisdom sink in. ⦁ It's written in a friendly, conversational style as if your gardening friend is teaching you -- and she is! ⦁ Jessica is an expert communicator. She knows how to write concisely without unnecessary words. Because it is so well-written, there's a lot of information, helpful tips and encouragement covering all the bases of growing your own food, packed in a comfortable sized book. ⦁ Inspiring photos of her garden and the text are artistically arranged to make it a pleasant, relaxing read. It's packed with info, yet easy on the eyes because it feels more green, than stark white space on the pages. Jessica has a heart for gardening, for people, and for teaching her passion to others. That love certainly comes through her writing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THIS BOOK WAS SO WORTH THE WAIT!! *by M***E on June 5, 2021* I first found Jess about three years ago when I was Googling information about growing tomatoes, and it took me about a year and a half later to find her again and started following her YouTube channel religiously. So poetic in all she talks about, I knew that The First-Time Gardener: Growing Vegetables would be amazing. I ordered it just as soon as that was possible and then had to wait until March! Oh, the anticipation, but I knew it would be worth the wait! The pictures are amazing and truly capture the beauty of Jess and Miah’s garden space. The information is priceless and so well written. Since I have followed Jess for a while now, before reading the book I thought there was little more I could learn from her, but I was wrong. There is so much advise in this one book that I can use in my garden, and I loved the charts. It makes it so easy to see information in a flash. While reading, it felt as if Jess was talking to me, and I love how motivational she can be. The last part of the book, “Just Keep Growing,” sums it all up. Jess encourages us to try anything and everything in our gardens because there is always next year. It is better to have tried something new than to regret not doing it later. Thank you, Jess, for such a beautiful book. I will be reading it again now that I have started really getting into my garden. ## Frequently Bought Together - The First-time Gardener: Growing Vegetables - Allotment Month By Month - VEGETABLE GROWING --- ## 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/215669056-the-first-time-gardener-growing-vegetables-all-the-know-how](https://www.desertcart.pt/products/215669056-the-first-time-gardener-growing-vegetables-all-the-know-how) --- *Product available on Desertcart Portugal* *Store origin: PT* *Last updated: 2026-10-14*