Notes from the Garden: Reflections and Observations of an Organic Gardener - Hardcover

Homeyer, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584651091 ISBN 13: 9781584651093

Publisher: Univ Pr of New England, 2002

Synopsis

Henry Homeyer, a hands-on gardener, gives practical advice on how to garden - whether building a hot box, transplanting peonies, defeating the deer, planting ginseng, growing ladyslipper orchids and shiitake mushrooms, or keeping the birds out of the berry bushes. The book is arranged by month, each of which covers a range of topics relevant to the season, including starting seedlings, edging and mulching, gardening with children, getting rid of invasive plants, pruning, putting the garden to bed, and growing houseplants. His seventy-two short "reflections and observations" will interest amateur, dedicated, and armchair gardeners alike, especially those living in zones 3 through 5, the climatic belt that includes New England and runs across southern Canada and west to the Rockies.

About this title

About the Author

HENRY HOMEYER is a landscaper and garden designer whose column appears weekly in ten regional newspapers. He is the Vermont and New Hampshire editor of People, Places, and Plants, a New England-only gardening magazine. He also writes for The Boston Globe, Gardener's Companion, Yankee, and other publications.

Reviews

With the plainspoken, straightforward manner for which New Englanders are famous, Homeyer espouses the philosophy and practices of organic gardening: no insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or chemical fertilizers should ever make their way into the earth or onto a plant. For Homeyer, such customs reflect not only a respect for the environment but a reverence for the gardening traditions imparted to him first at his grandfather's knee and then honed through the University of New Hampshire Master Gardener programs. Starting with March and progressing through the year in monthly chapters, Homeyer culls the best of his weekly newspaper gardening columns to offer advice on everything from starting seedlings to growing garlic, all from an organic-gardening approach. Along the way, he introduces fellow organic gardeners: some locally infamous, such as 85-year-old Marguerite Tewksbury; others nationally famous, such as renowned garden author Jamaica Kincaid. Spare, succinct, and sincere, Homeyer's guidance is down-home friendly and unthreatening, warm and wise. Carol Haggas
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Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584651091
• ISBN 13: 9781584651093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Yunger Josh
• Number of pages: 224