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Dirt-Cheap Gardening: Hundreds of Ways to Save Money in Your Garden

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this book gives all kinds of helpful advice and can definetly save you all kinds of money. It cuts to the chase and does not waste any of your time. I would recommend it highly.

What? Another gardening book? This book, "Dirt Cheap Gardening, Hundreds of Ways to Save Money in Your Garden," is a guide that every gardener needs, whether or not he already owns other gardening books. It has some very practical advice, from starting seeds inexpensively, to drying your own produce. Rhonda Massingham Hart, the author, packs a lot of info into this paperback of only 166 pages. You can skim-read it in an evening, and the information you read will help you with your gardening all year. This book mostly covers vegetable gardening, harvesting, and storage. If you are an avid gardener who enjoys saving money, too, this book is for you.

If you are in any way a cheapskate, this book has so many little tricks that WORK! The index is a little lacking, but I usually write in the margin for future reference anyway. Sometimes snippets of information is hidden in an unlikely spot, but overall, the book is laid out very logically.

Covers starting a garden, kinds of mulches, tools you need vs want, how to propagate plants and when, how to make a cold frame, cheap and easy watering methods, storing seeds, you name it. Lots of organic solutions in this book too.

I have shelves full of gardening books, but this is the one I turn to most often and with the best results.