Product Description

Do you want a luxurious lawn? More beautiful flower beds, or hints for making your yard look bigger or smaller? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips. This incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century gardeners is guaranteed to give you a green thumb! Early gardeners knew what they were doing-they had to because they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation. Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. This book includes: -Old-time wisdom boxes that highlight early gardeners' best planting notions -Tried-and true recipes from yesterday's kitchens -Strange but true features that reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques -A recommended reading list

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1275812 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

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Discover the secrets of old-time gardeners and their time-tested organic techniques to make a garden grow more beautiful and bountiful. "1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips" features an incredible selection of advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners on everything from how to read weather signs to how to improve soil quality, plus recipes for tasty dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. 150 illustrations Targeted national ads. .