Rebecca's Garden: Four Seasons to Grow on - Hardcover

Kolls, Rebecca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380975750 ISBN 13: 9780380975754

Publisher: Avon Books, 1998

Synopsis

Offers gardening tips for beginners, arranged by season, discussing everything from houseplants and vegetable gardens to plant doctoring and fertilizing

About this title

Review:

TV gardener Rebecca Kolls brings her lively personality to the page with this beginner's guide to gardening. The reader will find basic advice on choosing tools, composting, and preparing beds as well as more substantial directions on growing and caring for vegetables and flowers, trees and shrubs, lawns, and water gardens throughout the seasons. Kolls gives brief lessons here and there in fertilizing, watering, cleaning tools, doctoring houseplants, starting seeds, and making simple crafts, while quick tips in shaded boxes are sprinkled throughout the text. An alphabetized section on vegetables with facts on site, growing, harvest, storage etc. is at the back of the book.

Rebecca's Garden is a solid gardening book; it includes something on just about everything a reader might want, down to a recipe for herbal mustard and snapshots of Rebecca's family, but the information, albeit sound and environmentally friendly, is general. Gardening novices who are inspired by Rebecca's warm on-air enthusiasm will get the most out of this more permanent resource of her guidance. --Karen Karleski

About the Author:

Rebecca Kolls is the host of the syndicated TV show "Rebecca's Garden." She has also worked as the lead meteorologist on WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, and has been a contributor on radio and television shows in addition to writing a newspaper gardening column. She lives in Hudson, Wisconsin, with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0380975750
• ISBN 13: 9780380975754
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186