50 years ago I bought several vegetable garden books, I thought they were all great, especially books with good pictures. Now I know all of my books are trash so I threw them in the trash. If the author lives near Canada he claims best time to plant, corn, tomatoes, bean, is 2nd week of June. 2nd week of June at my house it's 100°F no rain & dry as desert. I have not seen a book yet that knows the correct time or how to plant, potatoes, onions or garlic. No one every talks about first frost & last frost. Most books don't say much about fertilizer. Books like to talk about zones but never tell you want zones are. Some books claim raised beds are best but never tell you a 2 ft tall raised bed 3 ft x 8 ft will cost you $500 for lumber and 50 bags of potting soil. Book pictures show 12 raised beds all spaced 4 ft apart, wow what a terrible waste of garden space. I use to be stupid, now I am less stupid.