Caring for Perennials: What to Do and When to Do it
by Janet Macunovich
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Author: Janet MacunovichEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-03
ISBN: 0882669575
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Book Review: invaluable guide for the new or unorganized gardener
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book because the subtitle, What to Do and When to Do It, precisely captured my state of confusion as a new gardener. I don't always know how to do a thing and just as often don't know when to do it either! The author takes us through a full year's worth of work, beginning with using a garden diagram and proceeding through finding plants and tools, pruning, weeding, mulching, watering and fertilizing, pest control, maintenance and getting ready for the next season. The book concludes with a chart of instructions for particular species of perennials, an index and a bibliography. The chart, in fitting with the emphasis of the book, instructs in each plant's proper care and is divided into months, April through November. The first chapter, kind of an overview of the year-in-gardening approach, has many color photographs, and the rest of the book contains many line drawings to illustrate techniques. Quite nice and very helpful.
Summary of Caring for Perennials: What to Do and When to Do it
Macunovich teaches her month-by-month schedule for perennial gardening. Includes care charts for more than 130 perennials.I am a lousy gardener. What I know about gardening could be summarized in a few words: "Plant something and hope for the best." Yet, I love to garden, and keep trying year after year in my tiny flowerbeds around the street trees in a sea of concrete here in San Francisco. I don't even bother to attempt planting annuals or growing things from seed, but for years I've been experimenting with perennials to see if I can find something that will survive for more than one year out there in the urban jungle. If I'd had this book years ago, I might have been successful a long time ago. For me, it's a walking tour of everything I have done wrong. For you, it can be a guidebook to doing things right from the get-go!
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