Gardening Hints and Tips (Paperback)

by Pippa Greenwood (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Videos are often the preferred format for presenting how-to information because of their "picture-worth-a-thousand-words" quality and their brief time demands. This book is like a video in print. Greenwood, a BBC garden show personality and author of The New Gardener (LJ 4/1/95), runs through some general areas of gardening, like lawns, water features, and landscaping, presenting basic information and quick ideas for improvement. A subject like plant propagation does fairly well with this technique; others, like general maintenance, will almost certainly require readers to search out another book before repairing those brick steps. The illustrations are small but clear, and, despite the wealth of sidebars and boxed tips, the pages are not too cluttered. More basic than The Big Book of Gardening Skills (LJ 2/1/93), this will be most useful for gardeners just beyond the novice stage to browse for ideas.?Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Greenwood offers readers more than 2,000 ideas for establishing and maintaining a garden. She divides the book into sections on restoring landscapes, plants and planting, container gardening, plant care, pests and diseases, lawns, water features, propagating, and general maintenance. There is a gardener's diary (a seasonal checklist of essential tasks) and tip boxes offering money-saving and time-saving advice. A quick-reference box at the beginning of each chapter outlines its contents, warning boxes give information concerning health and safety, and equipment boxes display the tools and equipment needed for a specific job. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations in color complement the straightforward text. George Cohen

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT (October 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789410710
• ISBN-13: 978-0789410719
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #234,183 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun reading sparks new ideas, April 2, 2001

By A Customer

This book is fun to read and sparked many ideas for me, an occasionally industrious but remarkably un-creative gardener. Down to earth and practical.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wide Ranging, Broad Overviews, January 11, 2001

By	J. Hardy IV (Snohomish, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As the title suggests this is a wide ranging book which touches on a lot of areas of gardening. I approached it from a container/patio gardening background and found that there was only a small section devoted to that unfortunately. But, it did produce some interesting tips like using spent tea bags or broken plastic nursery pots when providing drainage at the bottom of pots instead of the traditional shards of pottery. There were also interesting sections on water gardening which I'm going to delve into in the spring. The rest dealt with larger gardens proper, including lawn care, animal/pest control, plant care, concrete/brickwork etc. Similar in scope to the previously reviews Virgin Gardener by Edwards, it is a more compact and transportable read. I'll use it as a reference when I graduate beyond the confines of my patio.