Grow your own groceries from the backyard you already have.

You keep meaning to grow your own. Something keeps going wrong.

Maybe the tomatoes came in late and split. Maybe the seedlings went in too early and the frost got them. Maybe you did everything a blog told you and still ended up with three sad peppers and a lot of weeds.

It is not your thumb. Most gardening advice is written by folks who have never grown a thing, chasing pretty pictures, with vague tips and no dates, no amounts, no "do this, then that." So you guess, you lose a season, and the grocery bill just keeps climbing.

The garden was never the hard part. Knowing what to do, and when, is the part nobody wrote down. That is the whole of this book.

From John's Green Life

I grew up in a house that grew its own food. We did not call it homesteading, we called it Tuesday. There was a row of tomatoes taller than I was and a cellar shelf that carried us through winter.

I spent years watching that know-how disappear, and the grocery bill climb to fill the gap. So I wrote it all down, plain and in order, the way someone actually learns to garden. This book is that plan, and tens of thousands of gardeners now follow along.

Questions folks ask.