|
Newspapers, Pennies, Cardboard, And Eggs--for Growing A Better Garden: More than 200 New, Fun, and Ingenious Ideas to Keep Your Garden Growing
|
| List Price: | CDN$ 19.95 |
| Price: | CDN$ 13.07 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $39. Details |
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca
12 new or used available from CDN$ 10.36
Average customer review:
Product Description
Transform a Good Garden into a Great Garden in One Season What's the secret? It's a mix of ingenuity and efficiency, accented with fun! Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard, and Eggs-For Growing a Better Garden contains more than 400 clever solutions for easing garden troubles, new techniques for turning around an underperforming garden, and innovative ideas that will amaze even long-time gardeners. If you're looking to add more nutrients to garden soil, whip up a kitchen scrap smoothie and pour the juiced-up liquid right in the planting hole. If you need to chase away bulb-hungry voles, a little sharp-edged driveway gravel around the bulb will do the trick. And if digging potatoes is too tiresome, discover the no-dig, no-shovel method that lets you grow potatoes in a heap of straw mulch. You'll also discover: Intriguing and new plant varieties for sweeter corn, delicate salad greens, and handsome winter squash How to fill a shady spot with color, find affordable bulbs, rejuvenate peonies and perennials, and enjoy blossoms even when there's snow A creative arsenal for dealing with backyard weeds, including vinegar, hot water, plastic, and flames Ways to turn inexpensive items from the garden, closet, and pantry into indispensable yard and garden helpers Filled with usable, earth-conscious, and creative ideas and tips, this lively book will help you discover how to work smarter-not harder-to cultivate a better garden, year after year. Let a few of these suggestions and projects take root, and you'll have the better-looking, more productive, and more rewarding garden in just one year.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #187802 in Books
- Published on: 2007-12-26
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
ROGER YEPSEN has written and illustrated many books on gardening, home hints, and health, and won an American Horticultural Society Book Award for his work. He is the author of Apples; Berries; and A Celebration of Heirloom Vegetables, three books that reflect his passion for heirloom crops.
Customer Reviews
Save money, time, and some of your sanity.
For something that is supposed to be relaxing, gardening can be a frustrating hobby. Happily, this engaging book is full of both new and time-tested tips and advice for every gardener -- whether you are planting a few vegetables in containers or landscaping a large yard. It's just as useful to seasoned gardeners as to those just getting started.
Tips range from above-ground potato growing to deer-proofing your garden to building a rock retaining wall. All of them are written in a casual manner and most fit on a single page making it an easy book to pick up and put down or just browse through.
