Customer Reviews

Month-By-Month Gardening in New York: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year

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I guess I didn't expect to really like this book, and I'm not entirely sure why. Perhaps I have bad associations with month-by-month instructionals. At anyrate, I was completely won over. This book is handy, handy, handy. If you live in NY or a similar climate with the extreme winter and tropical summer, this is a helpful reminder. I garden professionally and still rely on it as a task list just to remind myself when my brain's on overload. Plant categories are covered separately month-by-month which was a little confusing at first glance--why not have all plants listed in monthly sections, but no matter. The categories are: Annuals and Biennials; Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes, and Tubers; Herbs and Vegetables; Houseplants; Lawns; Perennials; Roses; Shrubs; Trees; Vines, Ground Covers, and Ornamental Grasses; and Water and Bog Plants. Pretty comprehensive. Buy it and make your gardening a little easier!

Clear, concise format -- a little redundant in spots (did we really need to be reminded in every section that January is the month to get our 'wish list' together?) but I expect this expenditure to pay for itself several times over. Thanks!

Month by month gardening arrived in a timely fashion and was in perfect condition. It was not what I expected - I wanted a book that told me what to do with each plant by month - of which I had an old out of print, falling apart book. I was hoping this was the same. Instead you have to know the botanical name or common name of each plant and then try to match it up with the month in which you should be doing something to that plant. Very time consuming. No fault of the book - just not what I wanted.