num_pages: 673
description: Garden simply, beautifully, and well with The Garden Primer, a comprehensive gardening reference jam-packed with useful information, advice, tips, and quirky wisdom. Barbara Damrosch, an "old-fashioned dirt gardener," spent years refining her natural, common-sense approach to gardening and now guides you through all aspects of planning, planting, and upkeep.Each fully illustrated chapter is a book in itself, from planning your property and stocking the tool shed to growing perennials, annuals, roses, bulbs, vegetables, herbs, fruits, lawns and ground covers, trees, shrubs, vines, and more. Instructions are included for growing and tending approximately 300 plants, plus 365 illustrations, easy-to-read diagrams, and design plans for all types of gardens.
language: English
title: The Garden Primer
titlecomplete: The Garden Primer
genres: Plants, Nature, Environment, Science, Horticulture, Gardening, Design, Reference, Food, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 865
publisher: Emmaus, PA Rodale Press