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The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers: Based on the New York Times Column "Garden Q & A."

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I love to cook, and I decided to try my hand at gardening to see if I could grow some of our food. Needless to say, I had no idea what I was doing. I found this book at Smith and Hawken and it and helped me to obtain reasonable results the first year. My garden now grows a little more each year. I turn to this book regularly, when I am planning on expanding my garden or troubleshooting.

The book is subdivided as follows:
1. The Flower Garden
2. The Landscape Garden
3. The Kitchen Garden
4. The Potted Garden
5. Garden Keeping

The Flower Garden deals with annuals, perennials, roses and bulbs. Plants that bloom in the spring, summer, fall and then fade back in the winter.

The Landscape Garden will answer questions about the bigger picture it covers: ground cover, lawns, shrubs, trees and vines. The chapter also covers path materials and garden design.

The Kitchen Garden provides information about fruits, vegetables and herbs.

The Potted Garden covers indoor and outdoor container gardening.

In Garden Keeping they cover soil, compost, mulch, fertility and disease and pest control.

The index in the back of this book is very well done. I have found answers to 95% of the questions that I had. The book is weak on organic gardening. If that topic is of special interest to you (as it is to me), I suggest you buy another book on that topic alone.

Overall, I have been pleased with the information available in this book. It has allowed me to grow a fabulous herb garden, and a nice vegetable garden. It has also provided me with enough information to keep a Meyer lemon tree alive and producing fruit for two years. I would recommend this book to anyone that that is interested in gardening.

This is an easy to read, practical guide to everyday gardening questions, with lots of specifics, reference materials, and explanations. The index is massive, the research is thorough, and the subject matter will strike a chord with every true gardener. I highly recommend this book to help answer the mysteries that seem to crop up every year in a northeastern garden.

With its question/answer format and a blending of information gleaned from over a decade of New York Time's gardening column, The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions And Answers: Based On The Column "Gardeners Q. & A" gathers the questions of avid gardeners and the experiences and advice of gardening professionals under one cover. Add a chatty tone to their answers, which goes into more than just a few lines of detail, and an organization by type of plant, and you have a title which lends to leisure browsing as much as reference.

Great book for any gardener will help me a lot to have a beautiful and healthy garden.

Interesting book, but being in southern CA, I found it not so informative for my zone. Yet, there were many good ideas, current and modern items on the market.

One of the best garden questions and answers I've ever read. I've been gardening for years and I find things in this book I've never read or heard before. You can pick it up and start anywhere. You can pick by subject matter - flowers, shrubs, annuals, etc.

I wouldn't trade this book for any other I've read. I highly recommend it for you, your friends, your sisters (or brothers!).

An additional copy of the NYT 1000 Gardening Questions was purchased as a gift.
As a gardener myself, I have many "helpful" books, but this one is the best!

The gift was appreciated.

I liked this book so much I got one for my mother-in-law for mothers day. She is big into gardening and like me, starting reading the book as soon as she opened it.

This book, a compilation of "Garden Q & A" columns from The New York Times, is well organized, well written, and a gardening book for everyone - not just those of us with perpetually dirty knees and who get stopped at airport security because we forgot to remove the bypass pruners from our purse. As a professional garden designer, I get lots of questions in social settings. My answers always revolve around "buy this book and read it". I even keep a copy in my car so that if I get delayed, I can continue my self education. It's a perfect hostess gift and/or thank you present for all levels of gardeners. Don't leave home without it! (And the pricing on Amazon is great, new or previously perused!)

This book was bought as a gift for someone who is a seasoned gardener. She requested the book and loves it. Highly recommended.