How to cheat at gardening and yard work : shameless tricks for growing radically simple flowers, veggies, lawns, landscaping, and more / Jeff Bredenberg.
For most homeowners, the landscape is a big green monster, demanding all manner of hard labor to keep it happy. Who ever imagined that so much of adult life would be devoted to raking, tilling, trimming, mowing, digging . . . and cursing bulky and expensive power tools? Surely not Jeff Bredenberg, w...
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| Language: | English |
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[Emmaus, Pa.] :
Rodale,
[2009]
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| Physical Description: | xii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The cheating frame of mind
- Soil: a healthy garden, from the ground up
- Vegetables: the juiciest shortcuts
- The sweet 16: experts' favorite can't-miss veggie varieties
- Sneaky garden and yard design
- Sub-plots: raised beds, containers, rooftops, and more
- The rot stuff: the world's easiest composting
- Flowers made easy even for late bloomers
- Grass: bringing peace to the turf war
- Trees and shrubs: trimming down the maintenance
- The handiest tools and sneakiest storage
- Seasonal challenges: weeds, leaves, snow, ice, heat, drought, and deluge
- At peace with mother nature: bugs, bunnies, bambi, groundhogs, and more.