1,001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun and Fabulous That Will Change the Way You Garden - Forever! (Rodale Garden Book) [Hardcover]

Deborah L. Martin (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 12, 1999 | Series: Rodale Garden Book

How can you keep from dragging your garden hose over newly planted seedling? Where can you find cheap garden stakes? What can you use to keep the family cat out of your freshly tilled flower beds? This book answers these questions and hundreds more with unique new tips. Plentiful illustrations make for great browsing, while subject-area organization leads you to specific problem solutions. This book is sure to spur you on to improve the bloom and beauty of your garden.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The editors of Rodale offer readers a seat on the back porch with avid gardeners from around the country sharing tips and shortcuts on their favorite pastime. This informative volume is bursting at the seams with ideas culled from garden writers, nursery owners and other seasoned green thumbs and horticultural experts. The information is grouped thematically and presented in a series of chunks, with topics ranging from tools and composting to seed propagation, landscaping and troubleshooting. Vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits and berries all get equal time. A trio of recurring sidebars ("Problem Solver," "Homegrown Hints" and "Timely Tips") help unify the book visually, and line drawings add to the lively mix. With its informal, chatty and downright neighborly tone, the text invites browsing, and the bright ideas presented are commonsensicalAorganic, of course, coming from RodaleAand nearly always low-tech. For instance, an old dish drainer inverted over a catnip patch allows the leaves to grow through, giving kitty something to rub up against without destroying the plant; sunflowers conceal a compost bin; fresh garden herbs snipped into melted butter and then frozen provide a blast of instant summertime for year-round cooking. The hints and advice come fast and furious. The only risk readers may run is wanting to rush out into the garden to try them all at once.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

In a true idea book for organic gardeners, more than 1000 gardeners from across the United States and around the world offer tips based on what works in their own gardens. The individual gardener is identified and the tip written in understandable language. There are sections on gardening tools, composting, plant care, seeds, vegetables, herbs, fruit and berries, flowers, landscaping, attracting birds and butterflies, and more. Almost any gardener can pick up some useful hints about organic methods. This book will not stay on gardening shelves for long. It makes for great browsing, and this reviewer wanted to start trying out its suggestions even when it was still late winter in the upper Midwest.ADale Luchsinger, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll. Lib, Greendale, WI
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (June 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875968090
• ISBN-13: 978-0875968094
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best garden common sense book I've read!, August 27, 1999

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This review is from: 1,001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun and Fabulous That Will Change the Way You Garden - Forever! (Rodale Garden Book) (Hardcover)

Common Sense, that is what we really want to use and 1001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas gets us going. Let's use what we all stash in the garage, lamp shades, newspapers, plastic bottles, old plastic pots. This book is so easy to read, and to re-read. I don't know how I got along without it all these years. I can't wait for the next 1001 suggestions.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for the adventurous gardener!, November 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 1,001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun and Fabulous That Will Change the Way You Garden - Forever! (Rodale Garden Book) (Hardcover)

As a beginning gardener myself, I found this book to be quite fascinating. I wanted to utilize all these tips because I had most of the materials at home! It was a very easy book to read, and I thank the author for gracing us with these tips.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another wonderful Rodale book, April 24, 2004

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L. J. Frederick (Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1,001 Ingenious Gardening Ideas: New, Fun and Fabulous That Will Change the Way You Garden - Forever! (Rodale Garden Book) (Hardcover)

Being a novice gardener, I am sometimes intimidated by gardening books. I have checked out several Rodale books at my local library and have found this one to be another winner. It's easy to read and loaded with useful tips and ideas, some so simple that I wonder how come I didn't think of that myself! Others I think "Wow! What a cool idea". I've got plans to utilize many of them this year. I'd recommend this book for just about anyone, especially a new gardener. This is another one I'm adding to my wish list.