Easy Gardening 101: 20 Sure-Fire Lessons Guaranteed to Make You a Better Gardener

Provides twenty gardening lessons, including tips on avoiding beginners' errors, watering, soil building, plant diseases, and pruning

The editor and publisher of the quarterly magazine GreenPrints, "The Weeder's Digest," Pat Stone was also the garden editor and assistant editor at Mother Earth News for 12 years. He is the editor of The Healthy Garden Handbook and has written the books Easy Gardening 101 and Real Gardeners' True Confessions, of which he says the following: "This book takes the basic skills that every gardener should know and goes through them simply and clearly (hopefully, even humorously)... I want to spare you some of the agony I've been through, to help you feel a little less foolish and garden a good bit more successfully." Pat had a weekly gardening program aired on 20 public radio stations nationwide from 1991-1995 and he has appeared annually on CBS This Morning. Pat has four children and lives in Fairview, North Carolina, with his wife Becky.