The Garden Primer: The Completely Revised Gardener's Bible - 100% Organic (Revised) (2ND ed.)
Contributor(s): Damrosch, Barbara (Author)Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761122753Physical Info: 1.66" H x 9.08" L x 6.05" W (2.41 lbs) 820 pages
Barbara Damrosch is one of the nation's most respected garden experts and writers. She is the author of Theme Gardens and The Garden Primer and wrote a weekly column for The Washington Post called "A Cook's Garden" for nearly 15 years. She appeared as a regular correspondent on the PBS series The Victory Garden, and co-hosted the series Gardening Naturally for The Learning Channel. She is the co-owner, with her husband, Eliot Coleman, of Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, that is a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.
Jacket Description/Back:
Remarkably complete, this is the one: the indispensable one-volume reference guide to gardening simply, beautifully and well. It is jam-packed with useful information, old-fashioned common sense, and a lifetime's worth of experience, and is thoroughly revised and expanded to be 100 percent organic in its recommendations. Updated with the latest on plants, soils, techniques, and tools, it includes: The basics of landscaping, emphasizing sustainable methods. Understanding what plants need and avoiding complex rules and formulas. How to choose and combine flowers for season-long color, orchestrating with perennials and accenting with annuals. Extending the season - that's right, harvest carrots in January. The secret to raising roses without fuss, less demanding lawns, vines with discipline, and trees that will enhance your property. There is new information on native species, and all the gardening resources you need--explained in a voice that "has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose"
Review Quotes:
"Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods."-- Chicago Tribune
"Best of the crop."-- House Beautiful
"Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose."-- The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer
"Covers just about everything you could think of and then some." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"An extraordinarily comprehensive guide." -- The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
"Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the ground."-- The Toronto Star
Table of Contents:
Greenside UpPlanning Your Property
What Plants Need
Gardening Gear
How to Buy Plants
Annuals
Perennials
Vegetables
Herbs
Fruits
Bulbs
Roses
Lawns and Ground Covers
Vines
Shrubs
Trees
Wildflowers
Houseplants
The Garden Primer: The Completely Revised Gardener's Bible - 100% Organic
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