Master Gardener Manual by PennState Extension.

4/5 rating. 743 pages.

Book #15 of 2023. Read May 8, 2023.

This was the accompanying textbook for my Master Gardener’s class in Vermont.

The amount of information in this book is absolutely overwhelming. It is a true guidebook with information about a wide-array of topics about gardening: from soil health, to tree care, integrated pest management, and many more.

I think that this book does a great job of making the information readily available. Obviously you’re not reading a novel, it’s still a textbook, but they do a great job of not throwing in jargon that they don’t define and I felt like even as an absolute novice, I was able to grasp the majority of the topics. (Though in the most cursory way because of the sheer breadth of material covered.)

If you’re looking to get a good overview of some of the science behind your garden and plants and animals in general, I thought that this book did a great job of laying out a good amount of this. I definitely will be referring to it EXTENSIVELY in the future for a variety of topics about gardening. Just realize that each chapter I read probably took a minimum of an hour to get through, and many took much longer than that!

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