The 20-Minute Vegetable Gardener by Tom Christopher and Marty Asher

I promised myself I wouldn’t read a gardening book in 2008 until March, because that is pretty much all I read in 2007. Clearly, that didn’t work out. I’d been looking for this book for two years, and I found it used at Bookland, which was such a surprise, since it is out of print. (I am aware of my egregious abuse of commas. I am hooked on commas, and commas are hooked on creating a natural pause in sentences.) Of course, once it was in the house, I couldn’t keep out of it. I was actually pretty disappointed in it. I read their 20 Minute Gardener a few years ago, when I was just starting to get obsessed, and it was terrific. I did a few of the projects out of it and took a lot of their advice. I don’t know if I have read a lot more, or if it is the limitations of keeping the book to vegetables, but I felt like a lot of the information was redundant and unhelpful. Oh well. It can go on the shelf next to the 700 other garden books. Also, Tom Christopher is obsessed with the cucuzzi gourd (three chapters in two books!), so here is a picture to add visual interest!