Rebecca's Garden: Four Seasons to Grow on
TV gardener Rebecca Kolls brings her lively personality to the page with this beginner's guide to gardening. The reader will find basic advice on choosing tools, composting, and preparing beds as well as more substantial directions on growing and caring for vegetables and flowers, trees and shrubs, lawns, and water gardens throughout the seasons. Kolls gives brief lessons here and there in fertilizing, watering, cleaning tools, doctoring houseplants, starting seeds, and making simple crafts, while quick tips in shaded boxes are sprinkled throughout the text. An alphabetized section on vegetables with facts on site, growing, harvest, storage etc. is at the back of the book.Rebecca's Gardenis a solid gardening book; it includes something on just about everything a reader might want, down to a recipe for herbal mustard and snapshots of Rebecca's family, but the information, albeit sound and environmentally friendly, is general. Gardening novices who are inspired by Rebecca's warm on-air enthusiasm will get the most out of this more permanent resource of her guidance.--Karen Karleski