An Ear to the Ground: Understanding Your Garden - Softcover

Thompson, Ken

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9781903919200: An Ear to the Ground: Understanding Your Garden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903919207 ISBN 13: 9781903919200

Publisher: Transworld Publishers, 2008

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How did plants get to be the way they are? Why do they have pretty flowers? How different would things have been if the wrong kind of pollinators had got the upper hand? Why are Latin names so complicated, and why Latin anyway? Why is a weed-free lawn an ecological impossibility? This entertaining book gives the answers to these questions and many more. It shows how a little botanical knowledge can bring not just better results but peace of mind, and that losing sleep over such traditional gardening bogeys as weeds, pests, and pruning is not necessarily the best course. This new edition explains why any old plant will do for companion planting—but also that it can do as much harm as good—and why planting by the moon is complete and utter nonsense.

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From the Back Cover:

Do you have a clue what's actually going on in your garden?

We call ourselves a nation of gardeners but few of us have any idea, and still less understanding, of the science that is happening before our very eyes. How did plants get to be the way they are? Why do they have pretty flowers? Why are Latin names so complicated, and why Latin anyway? Why is a weed-free lawn an ecological impossibility?

Expanded for this new edition, An Ear to the Ground gives the answers to these questions and many more. It shows how a little botanical knowledge can bring not just better results, but peace of mind . . .

About the Author:

Ken Thompson is a plant ecologist who has written more than 100 articles for scientific journals and writes a regular column on the science of gardening for Organic Gardening magazine. He is also the author of Compost and coauthor of The Ecology of Seeds.

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