Format: Hardcover  

ISBN: 978-1-60652-042-0

Pages: 176

Copyright Year: 2011

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"When your garden contains lots of earthworms, your soil is good." This maxim may not sound familiar, but before the days of landscapers and lawn-maintenance companies, this type of knowledge was common. Gardening skills were passed down from generation to generation, and yards were personal places that flourished under the care of time-tested wisdom. Today the pace of life is faster, and modern advances make gardening tasks easier, but we can all benefit from the techniques and common-sense advice of the past to have beautiful, fruitful gardens now. With Back to Basics: Traditional Garden Wisdom, anyone can:

• Develop a dream, green garden without spending a fortune
• Grow an organic and eco-friendly garden with minimum fuss and maximum taste
• Discover how to collect and save seeds
• Make your own compost and learn "no-dig" gardening
• Make a cold frame and protect plants from frost
• Repel moles with castor oil, prevent mice with the right plants, and make herbal insect repellents
• Find out the best way to prune a hedge, tree, or climbing flower
• Know which gardening tasks to do for each season
• Raise a panel fence and use recycled materials for landscaping
• Plant raised beds and container gardens, and build a natural grape arbor
• Discover how companion planting can discourage harmful pests and encourage growth

Back to Basics: Traditional Garden Wisdom has full-color step-by-step illustrated instructions that will bring new knowledge to gardeners of all levels. Soon you'll be adding fireplace ashes to the garden to give it a potassium boost and using your elbow to see if the soil is warm enough for planting. With this insightful book, you'll discover why sage advice never goes out of style.