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Gardening Basics For Dummies

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If you're looking to start gardening or to update your current knowledge about gardening, this book is the place to start. Steve Frowine makes the gardening information accessible, practical and fun. Like all the ...for Dummies books, I particularly like the no-nonsense way he describes some fundamental gardening tasks like planting a tree or creating a flower bed. This book covers all the basics such as vegetable and fruit gardening, herb gardening, flower gardening, landscaping with trees and shrubs, growing bulbs, container gardening and even gardening projects with kids.

But it's also good for a more experienced gardener. There's a detailed chapter on building and water gardens and raising fish and some quick, handy gardening projects to do.

I really enjoyed this book and can't wait till next spring to start my first garden. This book is full of helpful information and tips for the first time gardener.

i have a little garden and i wanted to learn how to manage it. this book really helped me learn many things that i honestly didn't know before.( i have never gardened and usually had someone come in weekly to plant and clean it up) slowly i'm doing little thing the book suggests and i'm enjoying it.

I killed a cactus. This book is not designed to fix that kind of stupid. It gives some basics, but not quick and easy tricks. It expects you to know something. I got more help from internet research.

This book was read prior to an in depth gardening book and I feel as if it was a great introduction to the subject. Reading this book before a real serious gardening book was a great companion as it touched based on a wide variety of topics so once explained further in detail I had a good basic knowledge from which to build on.

It's a good book but not what I expected. If all you want is instruction on a vegetable garden, don't buy this.