The Cape Cod Garden: A Master Gordener's Handbook for Successful Planting [Paperback]

C. L. Fornari (Author), Barnstable County Cooperative Extension (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1996

This is the revised and updated version of The Cape Cod Garden. Since it was originally published in 1996, this book has been the definitive guide to gardening in the coastal regions of Southeast Massachusetts.

Addressing the challenges posed by sandy soil, moist off-ocean air, cold spring temperatures and wind, The Cape Cod Garden provides hundreds of practical "how-to" tips on gardening. Home-landscapers and gardeners will find advice on choosing and planting annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, and vegetables. Here too are the most effective yet least toxic ways to deal with pests and diseases common in the area.

The revised edition includes many new topics of concern to gardeners including new plants that have been recently introduced to the market, and strategies for coping with several insect pests that are new to the area. For beginners and experts alike, The Cape Cod Garden is an invaluable guide to the joys and pleasures of gardening by the sea.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

C.L. Fornari is an artist and the author of The Cape Cod Garden, Your Garden Shouldn’t Make You Crazy, and Gardening in Sandy Soil. She is the host of GardenLine, a weekly gardening program heard on WXTK Radio, 95.1 FM, on Saturday mornings from 8 to 10. C.L. writes articles about gardening for several publications, and is a frequent speaker on a variety of garden-related topics. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: Parnassus Press; 1st edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094016065X
• ISBN-13: 978-0940160651
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,561,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seaside and cape gardeners will find practical information., March 21, 1998

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This review is from: The Cape Cod Garden: A Master Gordener's Handbook for Successful Planting (Paperback)

Cape Cod gardeners from beginners to experienced respect this book. But it may be useful to any gardener with Cape-like growing conditions. The question and answer format is easy to use thanks to a good index and chapter divisions. The biggest drawback is shortage of drawings and no pictures. Plant lists organized by need (for example,Seaside ground covers, Low maintenance shrubs) would be useful for gardeners in similar environments to the Cape.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cape Cod Garden Lady, November 3, 2006

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David A. Kirchner "CapeReader" (MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cape Cod Garden (Paperback)

...when I started reading this I felt vindicated! Many of the things that C.L. talks about are unique to the Cape and Eastern Massachusetts gardening, (i.e. late Springs, high ocean winds, temporate zones, sandy soil, etc) and the book discusses how to deal with them. She writes very practically about these issues in a nice Q&A format.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excelent Book for the Cape Cod Gardener, October 4, 2010

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This review is from: The Cape Cod Garden (Paperback)

I gave this book to my mother as a birthday present after she retired and moved to Cape Cod. She is an experienced gardener, and found it very helpful in her quest to adjust her hobby to the particular challenges created by the weather and soil conditions. As an upstart gardener, I too found it a useful read. One drawback (4-stars), is that there are not many pictures, and the ones they have are not particularly impressive looking. Overall I find this book very helpful, and would recommend it to other seaside gardeners.