Best Books About Vegetable Gardening [Top 10] [Handy & Easy] [2024]

What are the best vegetable garden books to get you started with your own vegetable garden? Read on for good vegetable garden books for beginners and experts …

Books about and for vegetable gardens: sow, spit and harvest the best titles

Relaxed gardening with your own vegatables is for everyone. Not convinced yet? The authors on this list are guaranteed to warm you up. We start our recommendations with the top 10 best books about Vegetable Gardening of all time. This list has been updated this year, including all the recent titles.

Best Books About Vegetable Gardening	Author
The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!	Carleen Madigan
All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects – NEW Solutions – GROW Vegetables Anywhere (Volume 9) (All New Square Foot Gardening, 9)	Mel Bartholomew , Square Foot Gardening Foundation
Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Sustain a Thriving Garden	Tammy Wylie
The Old Farmer’s Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook (Old Farmer’s Almanac (Paperback))	Old Farmer’s Almanac
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)	Jessica Sowards
The Family Garden Plan: Grow a Year’s Worth of Sustainable and Healthy Food	Melissa K. Norris
Plant Grow Harvest Repeat: Grow a Bounty of Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers by Mastering the Art of Succession Planting	Meg McAndrews Cowden
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil	Edward C. Smith
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: A Simple Guide to Growing Vegetables at Home	Jill McSheehy
The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season	Jennifer Kujawski, Ron Kujawski

The updated top 10 list: the best vegetable gardening books

Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Eat the Best Edibles for Northeast Gardens (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

This book is aimed at people who have a garden or a piece of land in the Northeast. It shows you how to grow fruit, vegetables, and herbs in this climate. It also addresses soil and other conditions needed for a good crop each season.

Better Homes and Gardens Vegetable, Fruit & Herb Gardening (Better Homes and Gardens Gardening)

You don’t need a big garden to grow your own food. This book explains how you can have fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruit all year round. Follow the steps and cut the costs of your groceries.

DIY Hydroponics Gardens: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Building the Best Inexpensive Systems at Home Step-By-Step. How to Quickly Grow Delicious Hydroponic Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs Without Soil

In our opinion hydroponics should be on everyone’s radar, because it takes much less water to grow crops this way than with regular growing methods. This guide will help you design and execute your hydroponics garden.

California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening, 2nd Edition: Plant, grow, and harvest the best edibles for California Gardens (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

If you live in California and want to grow your own food, then we think this book will help you achieve your goals. What grows best where, with how much water and sunlight, it is all addressed in this second edition.

Western Garden Book of Edibles: The Complete A-Z Guide to Growing Your Own Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits

Whether you want to grow your own food in full ground or in containers, this book will tell you what you can grow. Not only fruits and vegetables, but also nuts and tropical fruits are part of the contents of this book.

Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

This book is aimed at people who live in Florida and want to grow fruits and vegetables in their garden. Learn all you need to know about when to plant what, where, and when to harvest.

Northwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles – Oregon, Washington, northern California, British Columbia (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

When Covid-19 made us stay at home, many people turned to gardening and growing their own food. It is not only cheaper and more fun to grow your own vegetables, fruits and herbs, but there is also something therapeutic about it. This book is for everyone who lives in the Northwest.

Midwest Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles – Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, … (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

This is the same book as the previous one on our top ten list, but now this version is for the Midwest. Reduce your costs in the fruit and vegetable section of the grocery store, and start your own food garden in the Midwest.

Carolinas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

This version of fruit and vegetable gardening is especially written for the states of North and South Carolina. Knowing your climate and what grows (and doesn’t) makes for a better crop.

Rocky Mountain Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles – Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah & Wyoming (Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Guides)

The larger a country, the more different climates there are. This book is aimed at people living in the Rocky Mountain region. Read Diana Maranhao’s suggestions for what to grow and how to get the best soil for your food garden.