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California Master Gardener Handbook [UNABRIDGED]

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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 The information it contains is outdated, incomplete, and not useful.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 Twenty five years out of date.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.

I received the book about a week early. I was pleasantly suprised. The book was in perfect condition. I will be using them again.

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.