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5.0 out of 5 starsMy "Gardening Bible" is covered with my dirty fingerprints!
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2004
When I first bought this book in 1988 I read it cover to cover on a cool winter evening, dreaming into the night of all the wonderful seeds I could begin to sprout....and plants that I could grow and eat. I now have the most recent edition as well, to loan out to "gardening newbies", but every year I pull out the older copy as a reference when planning & planting my spring garden. (Hence the dirty fingerprints throughout!)
The book is an excellent easy-to-read source and guide for the importance of good soil preparation as well as companion planting and planting by phases of the moon.
(By the way, the reviewer that called this book "New Age Crap" was wrong wrong wrong.)
The author takes old concepts (such as planting by lunar cycles) and encourages one to try it. I did, and am very pleased year after year with the results. I think the reviewer (HL - a self-proclaimed "technical specifications reader") who did not care for the style of the book should stick to reading and let us gardeners stick to the dirt!
May all the newbie vegetable gardeners out there be as inspired as I continue to be by this book!
Incidentally, for San Francisco Bay Area readers, the author occasionally teaches in person at Common Ground in Palo Alto (559 College Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-493-6072) A wonderful down-to-earth store where one can buy seeds "by the teaspoon" from shelves of seed jars and take informative classes. [...]
