The 20-Minute Gardener: The Garden of Your Dreams Without Giving up Your Life, Your Job, or Your Sanity
In a follow-up to their collaboration on Compost This Book (Sierra Club, 1994), garden writer Christopher and Asher, editor-in-chief of Vintage Books, explore the possibilities of low-maintenance gardening. This book is a lovable hodgepodge of plant lists, anecdotes, handy tips, "20-minute projects" (rooting old roses, making a water lily barrel garden), and opinions on just about everything horticultural. It explains how to make compost, hire landscaping help, select the best tools, and outsmart weeds (or, failing that, learn to love them). The guidelines on shopping for plants at local nurseries and by mail order are some of the best around. Gardeners are guaranteed to get something out of the book (if only a chuckle), whether they garden for minutes or hours a day. Recommended for most gardening collections.?Beth Clewis Crim, Prince William P.L., Va.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.