Review: Good Overview, But Not the Best
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2013
I take no pleasure in giving a bad review, but i would encourage the author to consider pulling this book off the market and re-releasing it later with some necessary changes:1) Change the title. Homesteading is a bell jar term that covers many different aspects of the activity and this short book only discusses the vegetable garden.2) Though I'm certain the author has been successful in his own vegetable garden, the overview does not cover a lot of ground for its price. There is no mention of mushroom mulch, square-foot gardening, raised bed gardening and other aspects of raising one's own food that are considered standard for those forced to utilize a minimum space on a budget.3) Where did the chapter on mushrooms come from? And though the title mentions wild edible plants, it only mentions mushrooms.4) It would help to have the book reviewed by others to deal with typos and stilted sentences.Nonetheless, there are some gems in the book, such as putting plants with specific water requirements together, the minimum amount of sunlight certain crops need, and though never worded in this manner, that the gardener raises dirt which in turn raises the vegetables.