Vermont Gardener's Companion: An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Green Mountain State (Gardening Series) - Softcover

Homeyer, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762743344 ISBN 13: 9780762743346

Publisher: Globe Pequot, 2007

Synopsis

The Vermont Gardener's Companion tells how to get the most out of Vermont's short gardening season and details how readers can use organic methods to improve soil, deal with diseases and pests, and get better results with their plants in a state where “winter temperatures plunge far below zero and rocks left by the glaciers pop out of the ground each spring like bread from hyperactive toasters.” With good humor and a natural teacher's gift for explanations, Henry Homeyer makes gardening fun and readily accessible to all.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Grow a garden bountiful and beautiful
The Vermont Gardener's Companion is the only guide focused on the challenges of cultivating a successful garden in the Green Mountain State. Whether you are an experienced green thumb or a curious novice, whether you live in the Green Mountains or along Lake Champlain, this easy-to-understand guide will help you grow bountiful vegetables, abundant flowers, and lush lawns. You will learn:
What's in your Vermont soil and how to improve it
How to stretch the state's short growing season
The best high-performance plant varieties for your climate Organic fertilizing and plant care approaches
Ways to combat pests and plant diseases unique to the state
Local sources of hands-on assistance with gardening questions Information on great public gardens and places to buy unusual plants, such as the showy lady's slipper Tricks from accomplished Vermont gardeners
In short, how to succeed as a cold-climate gardener

About the Author:

Henry Homeyer is a University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension master gardener with more than fifty years' experience in organic gardening. He is a freelance writer whose weekly gardening column is carried by a dozen New England newspapers; associate editor of People, Places and Plants magazine; and author of Notes from the Garden (University Press of New England), selected as one of the best gardening books of 2002 by the Christian Science Monitor. Once a month he broadcasts on Vermont Public Radio as "the gardening guy," once or twice a year he appears on an hourlong call-in gardening show on New Hampshire Public Radio, and he often speaks to garden groups, such as the Boston Flower Show.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0762743344
• ISBN 13: 9780762743346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224