The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb: 400 Thrifty Tips for Saving Money, Time, and Resources as You Garden

by Rhonda Massingham Hart

Overview

Discover how frugal gardening can lead to fantastic results! Rhonda Massingham Hart provides practical, time-tested tips that stretch your dollar even as they yield beautiful, bountiful plants. From starting seeds to preserving produce, Hart’s advice ensures that you won’t waste time and money while growing your own vegetables, flowers, houseplants, or landscape foliage. Perfect for thrifty gardeners of all levels, The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb covers everything you want to grow, indoors and out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603426664
Publisher:	Storey Books
Publication date:	09/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	281
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Rhonda Massingham Hart is a master gardener and the author of several books including Vertical Vegetables & Fruit, The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb, and Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden. She has written articles for a variety of magazines, including Flower & Garden, Woman’s Day, and Fine Gardening. She writes extensively on organic gardening techniques and lives in Washington State.

Editorial Reviews

Written by a Master Gardener with thirty years experience, this handy guide for gardeners of any experience includes ten chapters. They cover everything from soil, tools, plants, varieties, seeds versus starter plants, and guidelines for doing things the easiest and cheapest way. The chapters are relatively short and divided graphically for ease of identification and usefulness. Along the way, a color coded "Dirt Cheap" tip is included on the subject at hand. Black and white illustrations are utilized when necessary to aid understanding. There are plenty of lists for necessary items, such as: plants that do best in wet or dry soils or acid or alkaline soils, essential tools to have on hand or plants to discourage pests. All the information is designed to make gardening as productive, reasonable in cost, and enjoyable as possible. Anyone who gardens knows the rewards and frustrations. The more knowledge one has ensures more successful gardening. This book is a handy source for that knowledge. Appendices list varieties of fruits and vegetables best suited for various situations as well as resources for further information. Reviewer: Meredith Kiger, Ph.D.

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