Rodale's Weekend Gardener: Create a Low-Maintenance Landscape to Enjoy Year-Round - Hardcover

Hynes, Erin

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9780875968032: Rodale's Weekend Gardener: Create a Low-Maintenance Landscape to Enjoy Year-Round

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875968031 ISBN 13: 9780875968032

Publisher: Rodale Pr, 1998

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A guide proposing attractive projects for the more casual gardener helps readers enjoy their property without hours of back-breaking work and includes an encyclopedia of low-maintenance plants, plant tips, and color photographs of weekend gardens.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Can home owners create an interesting, satisfying landscape without the support of an army of gardening help and while maintaining a life outside their garden? The answer from Hynes, coauthor of Great Garden Shortcuts (1996), who admits to spending most of her days "earning a living, raising a child, doing volunteer work," is an unequivocal yes. After enumerating the most energy-intensive gardening chores, she suggests solutions for minimizing such tasks as watering, mowing, weeding and fertilizing. Hynes also urges readers to lighten their workload in the section "Picking Unpicky Plants." Her comprehensively annoted list of such plants includes annual, perennial and biennial flowers, ground covers, grasses, trees and shrubs, and some of the less demanding varieties of vegetables. No aspect of gardening is too insignificant for her attention, as in the reminder that mowing a lawn next to a perennial border is easier if the flower bed has curved rather than straight edges. Also included are plans for such weekend building projects as planters and window boxes, trellises, compost bins, walkways and patios. Hynes's chatty, personable prose adds stylistic appeal to her sound and practical advice.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Hynes (Improving the Boil, Rodale, 1994) gives us a straightforward book geared especially for homeowners long on gardening enthusiasm but short on time and resources. The author begins by taking the weekend gardener through the planning stage without the demands of exacting grid drawings. In addition, Hynes gives readers enough gardening essentials for a basic understanding of soil, sod, tools, plant nutrition and care, and disease and pest control. A "Weekend Gardener's Encyclopedia," including descriptions of the easiest plants to grow as well as a chapter on simple and useful construction projects, is included. The author's easygoing, reassuring writing style and the excellent color photographs make this book an ideal purchase for beginner and intermediate gardeners. Recommended for all public and horticultural libraries.?Art Wolk, Camden Cty. Lib., Winslow Twshp., NJ
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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