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Imagine a book titled "Gardening - How to Grow Tasty and Nutritious Vegetables" that doesn't actually tell you anything about using a shovel to put seeds in dirt:
About the author: How many copies the Authors previous books sold.
Preface to the 5th Edition: Why this is the greatest book about growing vegetables that will ever be written.
Introduction: Prepare to be shocked, you might want to sit down for the radical ideas that follow.
Chapter 1: Vegetables grow and there is a subversive group of mavericks who eat them.
Chapter 2: Part 1: Great vegetable growers.
Chapter 2: Part 2: Why everyone who says vegetables don't grow is wrong.
Chapter 3: Don't fall into the trap of believing vegetables are poisonous.
Chapter 4: The psychology of successful vegetable growers.
Chapter 5: The importance of having a system for growing vegetables.
Chapter 6: Baseball, how to think outside of the box.
Chapter 7: Intuition and experience.
Chapter 8: How people end up paralyzed by vegetable-related decisions.
Chapter 9: Data from high-profile vegetable growing champions the press doesn't want to cover.
Chapter 10: Why you should select vegetables that fit your personality.
Chapter 11: Professional Horticulturists can only tell you what happened to your vegetables in the past.
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Chapter 38: You'll find almost no information about this reclusive vegetable grower.
Chapter 39: The uselessness of black-box vegetable systems.
Chapter 40: An interview with the former growing partner of that failed vegetable grower that was the subject of my previous book.
Chapter 41: The life story of a cattle farmer's son who finally convinced his old man to try growing tomatoes.
Afterward: The reaction to the first edition of this book.
Foreward to the first edition: How little I knew about vegetable growing as an antiques dealer.
Foreward to the second edition
Foreward to the third edition
Foreward to the fourth edition
Foreward to the second edition
Deep-sounding quotes about growing vegetables.
Appendices: Introduction to the eight Appendices.
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