Rodale Organic Gardening Solutions

Over 500 Answers to Real Life Questions from Backyard Gardeners

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Contrary to popular belief, larger asparagus spears are tastier than thin spears. It's also true that putting sprigs of rosemary, sage, and lavender in with potatoes will inhibit sprouting while in storage, and that weeds can be controlled organically. Once again, Organic Gardening Magazine comes through with advice and answers to more than 500 questions asked by new and veteran backyard gardeners. The easy-to-read chapters are divided into subject categories, ranging from vegetables, fruits, and herbs to essentials of starting and saving seeds, composting, and maintaining carefree lawns. Comprehensive resource listings and "Check It Out!" boxes provide alternative advice on finding answers locally. Compiled from 10-plus years worth of "Solution" columns, this useful volume features leading hands-on gardening experts from all around the country offering shortcuts, tips, and secret approaches to solving myriad garden problems. Doris Taylor
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Book Description

For years, gardeners have submitted questions to the staff and editors of Organic Gardening magazine, dealing with the real challenges they face in their own yards and gardens. Combined with the honest, well-informed answers of the OG staff, the question-and-answer department has become the most popular in the magazine. Now the best of these questions have been collected in one volume. The OG experts answer tough questions about gardening safely and organically, such as "will it hurt my garden...

Customer Reviews

Reviewer: Midwest Book Review from Oregon, WI USA
In Rodale Organic Gardening Solutions, Cheryl Long collaborated with the editors of "Organic Gardening" magazine to offer the gardener easy, proven, practical organic, non-toxic solutions for sixty common gardening problems. Readers will learn how to get the most from their vegetable crops, produce beautiful flower gardens, learn to nurture tree and vine fruits, discover how to grow their own seasonings, master the nuts and bolts of saving and starting seeds, improve composting and soil management, keep pests under control, control weeds organically, and simplify lawn and landscape care. Superbly organized and thoroughly "user friendly", Rodale Organic Gardening Solutions is a "must" for the novice gardener, and has much of significant value to offer even the more experienced horticulturalist.

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