Review: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
or does it?First of all you have to read this book. I decided last year to grow a garden but I went to our neighborhood Orange Depot store for advice on plants. It was too late for seeds so I bought the young plants. My yard man told me what he needed to do to condition the soil. He helped me with the planting and told me how often to water.I created a book and and took a lot of photos along the way. STOP! Don't buy my book!Buy this book. It has everything I didn't know but should have known. It starts with planning your garden and conditioning the soil. It covers everything you need to know in between including preparing repellents for different insects. What she said about birds was an eye opener. I was putting up Scarecrows, fake owls and streamers made of video tape.Her answer was "place pans of water around the garden. That's what the birds really want. They eat the plants for the moisture content.I must add one more thing. Sally adds a chapter on canning. When I was young, we dreaded canning season because there was so much work to do with peeling apples and peaches and peas and shucking corn. We canned the veggies and fruits and made jelly of the peaches. We canned enough for the winter. I'm sure that most adults in their thirties know nothing about canning.This book has everything for the beginning and intermediate gardener. Get your copy right away.