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Vegetable Gardening

Select, grow, and harvest delicious vegetables from your home garden.
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This full-color publication provides information about growing vegetables--from selecting the best site for your garden to harvesting your vegetables. Vegetables discussed include asparagus, beans, brassicas, bulb vegetables, cucurbits, leafy vegetables, peas, peppers, root peppers, sweet corn, baby corn, and pickling corn, eggplants, and tomatoes.

Who is this for?

Home gardeners

What will you learn?

Selecting a garden site; preparing the site; mulching; growing vegetables in containers; irrigating; selecting cultivars; transplants; managing pests; managing weeds; specifics about asparagus, beans, Brassicas (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts), bulb vegetables (onions, leeks, and garlic), cucurbits (cucumbers, melons, squash, and pumpkins), leafy vegetables (lettuce, spinach, turnip and mustard greens, endive, escarole, and radicchio), peas, peppers, root vegetables (beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes, rutabagas, salsify, scorzonera, and turnips), sweet corn, baby corn (pickling corn), and popcorn, and tomatoes and eggplants

Professor of Horticultural Systems Management
Expertise
  • Sustainable vegetable systems
  • Organic vegetable systems
  • Field vegetable production systems
  • High tunnel vegetable production systems
More By Elsa Sánchez, Ph.D.
Extension Educator, Vegetable and Fruit
Expertise
  • Commercial Vegetable Production
  • Commercial Small Fruit Production
  • Commercial Tree Fruit Production
More By Timothy Elkner
Professor Vegetable Pathology
Expertise
  • Integrated vegetable disease management
  • Plant pathogen diagnosis
  • Disease monitoring and forecasting
  • Sustainable crop production
More By Beth K. Gugino, Ph.D.
Peter Ferretti
Professor Emeritus of Vegetable Crops
Pennsylvania State University
Steve Bogash
Former Extension Educator
Pennsylvania State University
William Lamont, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Vegetable Crops
Pennsylvania State University
Michael Orzolek, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Vegetable Crops
Pennsylvania State University
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