In Vera’s Vegetable Garden , Vera Greutink takes you month by month through her own permaculture garden to show how you can harvest a varied selection from your own plot all year round, even in winter. She generously shares her experiences with well-known and lesser-known breeds and varieties, and which ones perform successfully for various purposes. She also devotes significant attention to polycultures (combining vegetables, herbs, and flowers) to use your soil efficiently and make your garden resilient.

She shares her expertise on how to advance and extend the harvest. Clear explanations on establishing an asparagus bed (lucrative!), propagating sweet potatoes, growing flowers, choosing fruit trees, saving seeds, and the various ways to store your garden harvest or turn it into simple, tasty dishes: this book is bursting with practical knowledge you won't find anywhere else.

Vera is an experienced and attentive gardener. Her pragmatic tips and tricks are clever aids for the hobby gardener. By employing permaculture methods, she knows how to keep garden maintenance to a minimum while simultaneously creating a vegetable garden that is resilient to climate change. She makes full use of permaculture methods in her garden and shows that permaculture can be neat, organized, and applied effortlessly. It is not without reason that she reaches a large audience as a result.

Vera Greutink lives in Twente, where her vegetable garden, surrounded by a food forest, is based on permaculture principles. She is a garden designer, teaches courses, writes for various gardening magazines, and was editor-in-chief of De tuin op tafel. In 2022, she was a guest on the TV program Binnenstebuiten. More than 12,000 copies of her previous book, Tuin Smakelijk, have now been sold. You can see her garden at www.tuinsmakelijk.nl