How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By L. Pazzaglia
Format:Paperback
Ruth Stour's book is so incredibly conversational that I feel that I've been invited over for tea and weeding. It's broken up in several different essays and fun to read cover to cover. Despite the fact that it's more of a novel than a how-to book, you'll want to run out to your garden and try out a few things after each page. Today, she's well into her 90's -- a testament to how beneficial gardening is both for the garden and the gardner!
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've read this book numerous times, and enjoyed it every single time. I'm a garden writer myself (Allergy-Free Gardening) and I always appreciate good garden writing. For my money, no one did it any better than Ruth Stout. Her writing is useful, practical, easy to follow, sensible, fun, often funny, and is a joy to read. She was quite the gardener, and went about gardening in an intelligent and creative way, with her eyes wide open to things that worked, or those that didn't.
Ruth Stout really ought to be known as the "Mother of Mulch," since she was such a strong advocate for this practice. This book would make a fine addition to anyone's personal gardening library, and would also make an excellent gift for a friend who loves gardening. If you grow vegetables and flowers and have never read this gem, treat yourself to a copy. Remarkably good!
Ruth Stout really ought to be known as the "Mother of Mulch," since she was such a strong advocate for this practice. This book would make a fine addition to anyone's personal gardening library, and would also make an excellent gift for a friend who loves gardening. If you grow vegetables and flowers and have never read this gem, treat yourself to a copy. Remarkably good!
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a great book. I found this book in my mother's basement when we moved her last year. It had a great "70's" style cover and a title that intrigued the gardener in me. Well, all I can say is WOW! What an entertaining and informative book. I really felt like I was in the garden with Ruth. She was guiding me through my entire growing season and I was loving my garden again. I was truely entertained by the book, but most impressive were the results that I saw in my own garden. My best season ever. It lasted well into November here in PA (brocolli from my own garden for Thanksgiving dinner) and I attribute that to the great tips and practices that I learned and used from this book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love Ruth Stout, would have loved to be a nieghbor
I read this thing cover to cover and the passed it on to my friend Amy, we have both followed her instructions to the letter in our gardens last year, and again this year, will do... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Roxanne Riley
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Great Gardening
This book tells of an amazing way to garden. The print is easy to read and the author's chatty style makes it very easy reading. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Gingercat170
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Mulching with Hot Manure and Hay
This is an autobiographical reflection on life including vegetable and flower gardening for 20-30 years preceding its publication in 1955. It is not contemporary. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Chef Robin
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable read that fulfills the title's promise
This is partly a "how-to" book explaining Ruth Stout's easy gardening techniques, and partly an autobiography of her life as it pertains to her gardening. Read more
Published on October 29, 2010 by Barbara C. Duval
5.0 out of 5 stars
a wonderful commentary on my favorite hobby, growing things
Loved the practicality and self deprecating humor throughout the book. I see so much of myself in her stuggles. Read more
Published on August 17, 2010 by souska
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very useful and entertaining
I was very lucky to find it in our library, and I definetely think it has to be reprinted(with some corrections- like she recommends to use DDT on your lawn), but for the most part... Read more
Published on June 26, 2010 by deepest
5.0 out of 5 stars
how to have a green thumb without an aching back
interesting and fun read. My husband has already started using her advice. Has put much spoiled hay and 5000 earth worms in our garden!
Published on August 26, 2009 by Doyle L. Reed
5.0 out of 5 stars
Timeless advice
Ruth Stout is witty and sharp. At the end of the book you feel as if you have just finished a conversation with a good friend. Read more
Published on July 5, 2009 by Holly DeVault
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