A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide [Paperback]

Carolyn Herriot (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2011

Full of seasonally relevant, practical information, this bestselling weekly gardening guide can be picked up any day of the year for timely advice on how to create a beautiful, healthy ornamental landscape and food garden. Full of helpful tips and recipes, this highly illustrated book covers everything from soil building to pruning to four-season food growing and seed saving, interspersed with recipes, poetry and humour.

Organic gardening expert Carolyn Herriot digs up:
- four secrets of successful soil building
- methods to maintain a healthy green lawn
- non-toxic solutions to common garden problems
- pruning, plant propagation and more!

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About the Author

Carolyn Herriot is the author of the bestselling A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide. She is much in demand as a speaker and workshop leader on organic gardening in the Pacific Northwest, with regular columns in GardenWise and
Common Ground magazines. Carolyn grows her certified-organic seed business, Seeds of Victoria, at the Garden Path Centre for Organic Gardening in Victoria, BC.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harbour; 1 edition (January 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973805803
• ISBN-13: 978-0973805802
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,115,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now in an updated second edition, January 7, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide (Paperback)

Now in an updated second edition, A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide is a practical walkthrough to creating healthy landscapes and food gardens organically. Packed cover to cover with great gardening tips and recipes, A Year on the Garden Path covers everything from soil building to maintaining a healthy green lawn, nontoxic antidotes to gardening problems, pruning, seed saving, plant propagation, and much more. Black-and-white photographs throughout enhance this step-by-step guide, filled with both general advice and suggestions specific to individual plant species.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A year on the garden path by carolyn herriot, August 6, 2010

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organy - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide (Paperback)

Hello,
Just want to say there is a 2nd edition of this book, and that is what I am shopping for. A friend has it, and how very imformative, I'm hooked on this book. Love the ideas for simply solutions to bugs, enjoyed the week by week help, and simply put, I gotta have it!!

To more gardening with simplicity.