Gardening / Horticulture
Review
You might be looking for a way to bring some calmness and peace to your life. You want to get involved in something that works to reduce and relieve stress. If you’ve chosen gardening, you’ve made a wise decision.
One thing you’ll want to remember is that the garden you create can be whatever you want it to be. There’s no right or wrong selection in what you choose to put into it.
However, you will need to know what to do when you want to have a garden. It’s not knowing what to do that throw some people for a spin. They get lost trying to figure out which steps they need to take and when to take them.
Thankfully, though, all of the guesswork has been done for you with the Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season. Continue reading
Review
I was having a silly moment while browsing Amazon for gardening books. I saw the first part of the title to this book Companion Planting: The Vegetable Gardeners Guide: The Role of Flowers, Herbs & Organic Thinking and wondered if this was about planting a garden with a friend – a companion, or if it was about planting one’s companion. Okay, I said it was a silly moment.
The practice of companion planting has been around for centuries. It is the Grandfather of the modern eco-friendly, going green, organic gardening practices. If you want to avoid using chemical fertilizers and insecticides, then companion planting is for you. Healthy crops will abound when you practice sound companion planting.
This book is a quick read and an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of companion planting. Continue reading