This is the definitive guide to gardening in California! At over 700 pages, no other California gardening guide contains this depth of information. The California Master Gardener Handbook is an invaluable reference tool for all California gardeners. Chapters cover soil, fertilizer, and water management, plant propagation, plant physiology; weeds and pests; home vegetable gardening; specific garden crops including grapes, berries temperate fruits and nuts, citrus, and avocados. Also included is information on lawns, woody landscape plants, landscape design and developing problem-solving skills.
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"Now there's a new bible on the block for home gardeners . . ." --Holly Hayes, San Jose Mercury News, February 8, 2002
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35 of 47 people found the following review helpful:
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Complete Waste of Time and Money,
This review is from: California Master Gardener Handbook [UNABRIDGED] (Paperback)
First, take an insular bureaucracy (University of California Davis), next mandate a comprehensive text that's dumbed down to the semi-literate level(CMGHB), then assign a group of disinterested academics to the task of writing, and this is what you get. Honestly, it gives me no pleasure slamming CMGHB, it's just that bad. The information it contains is outdated, incomplete, and not useful. This a reference book that NEVER has the answer you need. Variety information? Twenty five years out of date. Pest Info? Full of useless facts with no viable technics. If there's any consise, usable material, it's too buried in the 700 pages to find. The Sunset Western Garden Book puts CMGHB to shame, and costs about one third.
Update 4-11. The new "Grow Fruit" by DK publishing resets the bar for fruit books, while "The Vegetable Gardeners' Bible" has been the best vegetable growing resource for awhile.
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I received the book about a week early. I was pleasantly suprised. The book was in perfect condition. I will be using them again.
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Excellent Southwestern Gardener Information,
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This is an excellent resource book written by experts in all of the areas connected with gardening and agriculture. It is in a form that is easily accessible as to the type of information needed at any given time as well as being the basic text for the California Master Gardener course.
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