Gardening in the South: Surviving the Bugs, Heat, and Everything Else the South Throws at You
Hell Is Humid, #2
Part of the Hell Is Humid series
Hell Is Humid: Gardening in the South When Everything Dies If you've ever Googled "why do my tomatoes get blossom end rot" "Gardening in extreme heat and humidity" Or simply screamed into the void while holding a dead pepper plant… This book is for you. Gardening advice sounds wonderful until you try doing it in a Southern summer, where the air feels like soup, the bugs have military training, and your plants collapse from heat stroke by July. This is not a pristine gardening guide written from a magazine garden. This is what humid climate gardening for beginners actually looks like. Inside you'll find: What really happens when you try vegetable gardening in extreme heat, The mistakes every beginner makes (especially in the South),Why your tomatoes rot, your cucumbers melt, and your squash betrays you, How over watering, under watering, and "doing everything right" can still go wrongA survival guide for gardening in hot, humid weather, and the humor you need when your garden fails anyway.If you live where summers are brutal, the soil is questionable, and traditional gardening advice doesn't work - you are not the problem. The climate is. This is a funny, painfully honest, and incredibly relatable look at southern vegetable gardening, written for beginners, frustrated gardeners, and anyone who has ever loved plants that did not love them back. Welcome to gardening in humidity.n Bring snacks. And electrolytes.