Summary: <br> This Week on Vegetable Gardening<br> In this week's episode, Mike chats with Steve Albert, author of the book, <a href="http://amzn.to/20h17cO">The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A Practical Vegetable and Herb Garden Encyclopedia</a>, about various tips, tricks and techniques that you can use, regardless of space, to grow your best garden ever.<br> Steve, a Master Gardener, will show you how to grow in anything from a few raised beds, to patio gardens, to large scale gardens and more. He'll give you his list of his favorite heirloom varieties that he likes to grow, as well as which ones grow great in small spaces.<br> From there Steve will give us insight into growing zones, and a lot more details on making your best soil ever with some composting techniques. This and so much more on this week's episode of Vegetable Gardening!<br> In this episode, here's what we'll cover<br> <br> Gardening in raised beds<br> Gardening in small spaces<br> Composting for great soil<br> Heirloom varieties that you must try<br> Easy solutions to common gardening problems<br> What harvest to table really means<br> Knowing what you can grow in your zone<br> <br> Items mentioned in this podcast<br> <br> <a href="http://amzn.to/20h17cO">The Kitchen Garden Grower's Guide: A Practical Vegetable and Herb Garden Encyclopedia</a><br> <a href="http://www.harvesttotable.com/">Harvest to Table</a><br> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Harvest-to-Table/158779800876857">Harvest to Table on Facebook</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/harvesttotable">Steve on Twitter</a><br> <br> About this week's Guest Steve Albert<br> I live in the Sonoma Valley of California just a mile or two from the bustling village of Kenwood—post office, grocery and feed store, gas station, and two churches—a village surrounded by crop land, pastures, orchards, and vineyards. My vegetable garden and kitchen are in USDA growing zone 8b; that means we get some frost and freezing every year but almost never any snow.<br> I write Harvest to Table in my utility room with one door leading into the kitchen and the other out into my vegetable and flower garden. (The coat and boot rack sit right behind my chair and my two cats Sister and George are either sleeping on the utility counter next to me or are in the kitchen demanding to be fed).<br> Everything you’ll find at Harvest to Table I either learned in my garden or kitchen—with a little help from my gardening and cooking neighbors, friends, and family. Everything you’ll find here I’ve grown in my garden and cooked in my kitchen. Just so you know up front, I’m a big fan of compost and butter.<br> Harvest to Table is for the beginner and veteran gardener alike. The goal is to find easy solutions to common garden problems. I’ve found that no matter where I have lived to get great results in the garden what’s been important are the fundamentals. No matter where you live you have the same growing sequence as I do. To bring great food from your garden to your table, stick to the fundamentals.<br> About the Host<br> Mike Podlesny is the author of the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557074266/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0557074266&linkCode=as2&tag=indocquent-20&linkId=QWXL4RPHEB5H7O6F">Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person: A Guide to Vegetable Gardening for the Rest of Us</a> as well as the creator of the <a href="http://www.averagepersongardening.com/seedsclub">Seeds of the Month Club</a> where members receive non gmo, heirloom variety seeds every month. Be sure to listen to Mike each week on the <a href="http://www.averagepersongardening.com/podcast">Vegetable Gardening Podcast</a>, as he interviews the gardening industry's leading experts. You can also read gardening articles from Mike on his blog at <a href="http://www.averagepersongardening.com/blog">AveragePersonGardening.com/blog</a><br> Be sure to Visit th
