Organic Gardening Guide by Steve Solomon - Grow Vegetables West of Cascades for Home & Farm Use

This was not my first time reading a book by Steve Solomon, I have tried quite a few of things that he recommends over the years in my vegetable garden. The best part of this book is the new COF ( complete organic fertilizer) recipe. I had good success with the past recipe in the last edition but this was a way better year for me with the new version! My cucumber plants and zucchini all have done better than ever now that I found out they needed zinc. That is just one example of the improvements I have experienced from my first year of trying to better improve the balance of minerals in my garden. The soil in my newer garden plot barely grew decent weeds when I started growing in it. I know some people don’t really enjoy his writing style but I do, growing up I never got to enjoy having a grandpa around to learn from. His style is what I imagine could have been if I had ever had a garden savvy grandpa, a little rambling but very useful advice.