Review: A Good, Inspiring Introduction to Organic Gardening, Including Container Gardening in Your Kitchen Window
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
This is a useful introduction for gardeners contemplating their first organic garden. Even apartment dwellers will find this a useful booklet due to the author's discussion of container gardening.The writing is easy-flowing with few, if any, grammatical or typographical errors. Further, most of the discussion is basic common sense. What I mean is that the writer keeps the discussion simple and practical with no elaborate wild ideas.Having said that, I do believe the booklet would be improved if he included photographs and illustrations to amplify his discussion. Showing, by photo or buy a sketch, what he considers to be the ideal balcony or kitchen window container garden, and a sketch displaying the ideal garden populated by a diversified wildlife and companion planting setup could keep readers dreaming.And, finally, the almanac at the end of the booklet doesn't state the climate he contemplates the growing instructions for. Further, the growing instructions are far too brief and, hence, might be more properly published as a separate booklet. Still, this is only my opinion.Also, although organic gardening is usually fraught with fewer health risks than is conventional, the author should point out the risks that can be present when consuming foods that are grown organically, but that are not cooked.Otherwise, I liked Organic Gardening: 7 Easy Steps to Freedom, Fun, and Fantastic Health by Growing Your Own Organic Food enough to recommend its purchase.