Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener''s Handbook: Perfectly Timed Gardening for Your Most Bountiful Harvest Ever

About Jennifer KujawskiRon Kujawski

Jennifer Kujawski grew up helping in the family garden. She has many memories of the experience both fond (eating peas straight from the pods) and not-so-fond (squashing potato beetles between rocks). Jennifer earned degrees in botany and horticulture and worked as the assistant manager of USDAs National Plant Materials Center in Beltsville Maryland. She has written articles for numerous publications including American Nurseryman and Native Plants Journal and was one of the authors of the Community Forest Buffer Guide (Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2001). Jennifer currently works as a freelance writer and editor for such organizations as University of Massachusetts Extension USDAs Forest Service and Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association. She is passing along the family gardening tradition to her young son in the 2000 square foot vegetable garden she tends with her father.Ron Kujawskis indoctrination into vegetable growing began at an early age when he worked on a family onion farm in upstate New York. That experience provided the motivation to pursue a career that involved teaching and research in plant sciences and horticulture. Though now retired he continues to write lecture and consult in the horticultural field while maintaining a passion for gardening which he shares with his daughter Jennifer a professional horticulturalist.