So, I tried to read this a month at a time, and that is one way to do it. But I think I would get more use out of blazing through the early part of the year, then going back and reading it month by month, just so I get the full notion of planning (I am bad at planning) my garden. If you want a regional gardening book that is REALLY helpful (for New England), this is it. But you probably already knew that. The charts and tables and the presentation of the information made it easy to digest and act on.