Review: Lame Look a Like
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2014
I was so excited to see this Kindle book for free.  Unfortunately, it's only a look a like cover to the Storey publication I thought it was.  At only 27 pages and a confusing mish mash of ornamental/vegetable species included (the cover makes it look like it's about vegetables, but at least half of the content is ornamental), this brief offering is incredibly generic and offers nothing of real value to those wanting to produce food for their families vertically.  Trellis designs?  Nope.  Discussions of wind load?  Nope.  Training vines to go up?  Nope.  None of that.Even for free, I'm going to recommend you pass.  This book reads like the author did some Googling and whipped this booklet together to make some quick cash.  It doesn't read like it's written from personal experience at all.  There are very few pictures included, and none that demonstrate practical applications that were discussed in the book (maybe because there aren't any practical applications in the text?)I've been reading a lot of gardening titles as we put a new one in, and we're using vertical techniques.  Derek Fell's Vertical Gardening book, or even Mel Bartholomew's SFG are much better and far more practical for vegetable growers.