The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch - ISBN: 9780761122753
Paperback
Grow beautifully: Organic wisdom for a flourishing, sustainable garden.

The Garden Primer

The Completely Revised Gardener's Bible - 100% Organic

  • Paperback

    820 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2008

Summary

The indispensable one-volume reference guide to gardening simply, beautifully, and well, now 100% organic.

Jam-packed with useful information, old-fashioned common sense, and a lifetime’s worth of experience, The Garden Primer is a classic, thoroughly revised and expanded to be 100% organic in its recommendations. Updated with the latest on plants, soils, and techniques, it includes:

  • The basics of landscaping, emphasizing sustainable methods.
  • Understand…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780761122753
ISBN-10:0761122753
Author:Barbara Damrosch
Publisher:Workman Publishing
Imprint:Workman Adult
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:820
Edition:2nd
Release Date:31 March 2008
Weight:1.10kg
Dimensions:226mm x 152mm x 42mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the ground.”

“Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods.”–Chicago Tribune

“Best of the crop.”–House Beautiful

“Barbara Damrosch’s writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose.”–The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer

“Covers just about everything you could think of and then some.” – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“An extraordinarily comprehensive guide.” – The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

“Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the ground.”–The Toronto Star

About The Author

Barbara Damrosch

Barbara Damrosch is one of the nation’s most respected garden experts and writers. She is the author of Theme Gardens and The Garden Primer and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post called “A Cook s Garden.” She appeared as a regular correspondent on the PBS series The Victory Garden, and co-hosted the series Gardening Naturally for The Learning Channel. She is the co-owner, with her husband, Eliot Coleman, of Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, that is a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.

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