Pearls of Garden Wisdom: Time-Saving Tips and Techniques from a Country Home [Hardcover]

Deborah S. Tukua (Author), Vicki West (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 2001

Nearly 600 time- and money-saving tips.

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In Pearls of Garden Wisdom, authors Deborah S. Tukua and Vicki West have collected over 500 gardening tips - for the lawn, the orchard, the flower bed, and more - each designed to yield complete satisfaction from the soil. Here, they combine years of hard-earned experience with invaluable hints they've gathered from farmers and neighbors who live in nearby rural towns. Much of this tried-and-true advice has been passed down through generations of men and women who have worked and lived off the land. Tukua and West tell readers how to grow flowers, fruits, vegetables, and herbs, both indoors and out, and then use their harvest in everything from salads to natural remedies to household decorations. They also offer various solutions to such questions as how to successfully bring a garden through a harsh winter or extremely dry summer; how to set-up and maintain a greenhouse and/or potting shed; how to keep a garden virtually pest-free and how to help children enjoy the satisfaction of gardening. (5 3/4 x 8 1/2, 352 pages, b&w photos, recipes)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1585744018
• ISBN-13: 978-1585744015
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,451,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pearls of Garden Wisdom, December 9, 2001

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C. Miller (Warsaw, MO 65355) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pearls of Garden Wisdom: Time-Saving Tips and Techniques from a Country Home (Hardcover)

Pearls of Garden Wisdom is a great book for the home gardener -- especially the beginner. It's not an indepth, technical book that talks about formulas for fine tuning your soil, crop rotation for maximum yield, or garden plot lay-out. It IS a book of ideas to try and easy-to-carry-out handy tricks to make gardening more convenient, more fun, and more efficient.

There are tips for using space well, caring for gardening accouterments, using a greenhouse, and controlling pests and diseases without spending a bundle. (For instance, tip #304 tells how to remove seed ticks with tape; tip 339 tells how to shield seedlings from plant munching bugs with a cardboard and a bit of screen.) Find plants listed according to the type of garden you want -- plants for a tea garden; a culinary, medicinal, or bath and beauty herb garden; a bee or butterfly garden; and more. There are instructions and recipes for simple gifts, crafts, beauty aids and edibles, and just general gardening ideas. For the apartment dweller or indoor gardener, there are useful ideas as well.

Pearls of Garden Wisdom is not all-inclusive, and won't take the place of a basic how-to-garden book, if that's what you need. If you love making gardening easier and more effiecient on a small scale with common sense (and often down-right clever) ideas, or experimenting with different down-home methods, you will enjoy this book.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pearls of Garden Wisdom: Saving Tips and Techniques from a Country Garden, June 17, 2009

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