Warm-climate gardening: Tips, techniques, plans, projects for humid or dry conditions [Paperback]

Barbara Pleasant (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Springtime always brings a new crop of enthusiastic gardeners, and these two books will help those in pursuit of an edible garden. In The Harvest Gardener , McClure, a botanist and garden writer, discusses a wide range of topics, including seed selection and start-up, soil improvement, site selection, succession crops, pests and diseases, and harvest storage, preservation, and preparation. McClure intersperses her conversational and personal text with boxed charts and quoted advice from more than 50 contributors. While a true beginner may be overwhelmed, most gardeners will enjoy the cornucopia of information provided here. More concise in writing style and gardening technique is Riotte's Successful Small Food Gardens , which is a slightly revised edition of her 1977 Success with Small Food Gardens (Garden Way Pub.). Riotte, author of several organic and astrological gardening books, provides sound advice on companion planting, vertical gardening, edible and ornamental flowers and shrubbery, container gardening, and other techniques to get the most produce from a small garden. A useful purchase for collections that do not have the previous edition.
- Virginia A. Henrichs, Chicago Botanic Garden Lib., Glencoe, Ill.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 204 pages
• Publisher: Storey Communications (1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882668196
• ISBN-13: 978-0882668192
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,882,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have the greatest job in the world, which is helping gardeners find neat ways to make the world a more beautiful and productive place. Writing feature article for Mother Earth News and other magazines helps to break up long stretches spent on books, and it's also great fun to talk with fellow gardeners, who are a constant source of new and better ideas.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best all Around Resource for SW Florida Gardeners, February 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Warm-Climate Gardening: Tips, Techniques, Plans, Projects for Humid or Dry Conditions (Paperback)

After a grave search for information on gardening here in Naples, Florida, I found this book to be the best one I could really trust. The climates are mapped out so perfectly for our region which is unique to anywhere in the United States. We have a wider choice of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall growing periods which are shown here. You need this book if you live South of Tampa on the West or below Daytona on the East coast of Florida.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just what a beginner gardener needed in St. Petersburg, Florida, July 24, 2007

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Robert Randolph "Admiral Bumblebee" (Saint Petersburg, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warm-Climate Gardening: Tips, Techniques, Plans, Projects for Humid or Dry Conditions (Paperback)

When I began my search for information on what to do with my yard and garden, I looked to the internet, and soon found that a lot of information was geared toward climates where there is actually a winter with SNOW and summers that don't suck the life out of you. Since I was gardening and landscaping in Central Florida, I was hoping I'd find a reference for a hot humid climate. I was lucky enough to find this book at my local public library and it has proved a valueable resource. One of the things I like best about this book are the plant lists (such as the 20 best perennials) and the month by month section on what to do in the garden. And I know I can trust it because it is tailored to my climate! I give it 4 out of 5 stars because there were some times I wanted more information about a certain plant and had to go elsewhere to look it up. I suppose it would have been quite a hefty book if it included all the info I wanted.

All in All, I think this is a great book, and I think I may break down and buy it for a penny at the Amazon Marketplace.