Gardening Month by Month in Northern California [Paperback]

Bob Tanem (Author), Don Williamson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

America's Happy Gardener (tm) and award-winning KSFO radio host BOB TANEM brings all of his gardening know-how to this valuable new tool for the Northern California gardener. GARDENING MONTH BY MONTH IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA is a beautiful perpetual calendar and month-by-month guide you can use year after year to keep track of your garden's progress. With 265 brilliant, color photographs this book is an absolute delight. This easy-to-use, sturdy book with its lay-flat binding contains great features, on garden design, sprouting plants from seeds, container gardening, creating wildlife habitat, composting, house plants, pest control and many, many references and resources for the Northern California gardener.

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About the Author

BOB TANEM, America's Happy Gardener(tm), has been in the nursery business for more than 40 years and has logged over 20 years of air time as a broadcaster on gardening. Bob Tanem in the Garden is featured each Sunday morning on KSFO Radio in San Francisco, a show that has twice garnered Bob the coveted "Quill & Trowel" Award for the best radio program on gardening in America. Bob also has made numerous television appearances, written hundreds of magazine articles, writes gardening features for local newspapers and publishes his own newsletter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing; First Printing edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551053659
• ISBN-13: 978-1551053653
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars More Pictures than Information; Not Well Organized, March 23, 2009

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I was expecting that this book would be essentially a checklist of gardening tasks to perform for each month in Northern California. There is information of that nature here, but a large part of the 155 pages consists of color photographs of plants. Beautiful as the photographs may be, the text suffers from lack of organization.

The size of the text is relatively small and is printed in gray on blue, which makes for difficult reading, as the contrast is insufficient. The text is not categorized by similar tasks and lacks headings and subheadings. A standardized format for the monthly tasks would have improved the book's utility, with tips on repetitive tasks, such as pruning, put in a separate section in the back.

Bob Tanem is a very experienced and knowledgeable horticulturalist, but he needed editorial guidance on how to organize his material for practical use.