Provides ten low-maintenance, environmentally friendly garden designs with guidelines for week-by-week activities
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From Publishers Weekly:
Considering 10 different types of American gardens, Sombke ( The Environmental Gardener ) tells us how to establish and care for them, using organic methods ("you won't need to use any synthetic chemical pesticides or fertilizers"), following the garden's progress with week-by-week guidance--all this instruction culminating in recipes. The types? A salad garden, meant to sate hungry beginners and vegetarians, among others; an herb garden; a "classic American" garden, resembling a "World War II Victory Garden"; a kind dubbed gourmet culinary for its petit pois and Charentais melons; one grown from heirloom seeds; an edible garden, with nothing purely ornamental in it; a cottage orchard; pan-Asian, which takes in Thai basil and Japanese eggplant; a sunny cutting garden; and a "shady glen." Though some are more exotic than others, all seem within reach, as defined by individual taste, in Sombke's capable hands. He leads us with tirelessly practical instructions--plant the beans, pull the weeds--and doesn't try to entertain with too many asides. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1564402150
- ISBN 13 9781564402158
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages221