Pearls of Garden Wisdom: Time-Saving Tips and Techniques from a Country Home

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Pearls of Garden Wisdom is a great book for the home gardener -- especially the beginner. It's not an indepth, technical book that talks about formulas for fine tuning your soil, crop rotation for maximum yield, or garden plot lay-out. It IS a book of ideas to try and easy-to-carry-out handy tricks to make gardening more convenient, more fun, and more efficient. There are tips for using space well, caring for gardening accouterments, using a greenhouse, and controlling pests and diseases without spending a bundle. (For instance, tip #304 tells how to remove seed ticks with tape; tip 339 tells how to shield seedlings from plant munching bugs with a cardboard and a bit of screen.) Find plants listed according to the type of garden you want -- plants for a tea garden; a culinary, medicinal, or bath and beauty herb garden; a bee or butterfly garden; and more. There are instructions and recipes for simple gifts, crafts, beauty aids and edibles, and just general gardening ideas. For the apartment dweller or indoor gardener, there are useful ideas as well.Pearls of Garden Wisdom is not all-inclusive, and won't take the place of a basic how-to-garden book, if that's what you need. If you love making gardening easier and more effiecient on a small scale with common sense (and often down-right clever) ideas, or experimenting with different down-home methods, you will enjoy this book.