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DESCRIPTION Interested in growing vegetables but feeling a bit overwhelmed? Or maybe you're a savvy vegetable gardener looking for delicious tips and anecdotes? Horticulturists Donna Balzer and Steven Biggs make the art of vegetable gardening rewarding and FUN. In this graphic-novel-meets-gardening-book, Balzer and Biggs take no prisoners: they say what they think, pointing out the folly of garden perfectionism, soil hypochondriacs, and front-yard veggiephobics. Their he-says, she-says banter shows that there's more than one way to slice a tomato and more than one way to garden. At the end of every chapter, bumbling old Guff chimes in with silly advice, which they debunk. Along with a fabulous crop chart for planning and tending crops, this book takes the science of gardening and puts it in language anyone can understand. No other book likens eggs in baking to organic matter in soil. Instead of shrouding it in mystique, this book puts vegetable gardening within reach of everyone, making it really, really fun in the process. ABOUT THE AUTHORS STEVEN BIGGS Steven runs the how-to website www.The-Locavores-Garden.com, from which he also distributes his e-zine, Homegrown in Toronto. He gives readers no-nonsense advice about growing edibles and engaging kids in gardening. As a journalist, Steven focuses on gardening, farming, and food. He gardens in Toronto, Canada with his three young children; and is joined in the kitchen, cooking homegrown vegetables, by his wife Shelley. DONNA BALZER Donna is a freelance garden consultant and writer. She answers caller inquiries on CBC radio throughout the province of Alberta and writes local and regional books and articles for magazines and The Calgary Herald. Her television show, Bugs & Blooms, is often re-run on HGTV and around the globe. A peek over her garden fence will reveal her and her husband enjoying their little rock garden with the tumbling stream or mixing up a batch of compost tea.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #160857 in Books
• Published on: 2011
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages