I’ve always had a veggie garden and sometime it thrives and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve decided this year that I would like to get serious about gardening and “do it right.” Does anyone have a good all round gardening book or magazine they would recommend?
(1) Jon Jeavons, [I]How to Grow More Vegetables…**[/I] (8th ed. is the one I have). Gives planting instrux for 100, 200, etc. sq.ft. plots in the ground. **[I]and fruits, nuts, berries, grains, and other crops) than you ever thought possible on less land than you can imagine[/I].]
(2) Mel Bartholomew, [I]All New Square Foot Gardening[/I] (2005 ed.).
(3) Eliot Coleman, [I]Four-Season Harvest [/I](Coleman gardens and harvests in Maine).
I use a combination of Jeavons’s and Bartholomew’s methods: intensive spacing and culture methods in raised boxes of ≥12 sq.ft.
Gardening while the sun is up and knitting while the sun is down is a nice rhythm (but we all need paying work!).
I second Mel Bartholomew’s [I]Square Foot Gardening[/I]! Awesome vegetable yields can be gotten with that method - I grew more than a family of 4 could eat in a 4x12 bed with a trellis on the long side for vining veggies!
DCM - thanks for the reference to Jeavons, I’ll have to find that one. 
Thank you I’ll have to look those up ! I’ve got a Barnes and Noble gift card burning a hole in my wallet.
We had another snow storm to start his week off but the sun is coming out tomorrow and I am excited to get the tiller out and turn some peat and compost into the garden. Really want to get my peas and onion sets in earlier this year.
Normally I love winter but I am so ready for spring this year