Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The subtitle to this book is: “Everything You Need to Know to Start and Sustain a Thriving Garden” which is a gross exaggeration. I am a black-thumbed wanna be gardener who would like to grow at least one crop besides weeds. This book is full of the obvious like don’t overwater, don’t underwater, check your soil composition but does not have any instruction on what to do if you isolate a problem. Comments go unexplained: “squash have both male and female flowers so they can self pollinate”. Good to know BUT how do I identify which is which? There are no photos, drawings, or prose to demonstrate the difference and do I need to know which is which? This published book reads like a good outline of what a book entitled as such should be but nothing is flushed out or filled in. Most info could be gotten off the back of a seed packet.