The Kitchen Garden - Softcover

Thompson, Sylvia

 
9780553374629: The Kitchen Garden

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Introduces the organic French Intensive Method approach to gardening in which vegetables and flowers are grown together, explains how to select seeds, provides source lists and nutritional information, and includes regional maps. Original.

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usands of readers of Sylvia Thompson's gardening columns in newspapers all over the country have come to trust her wise counsel on growing everything from tomatoes to purslane. Thompson begins with an organic, French Intensive Method approach - vegetables and flowers are grown together, with a special eye for creating a visually appealing garden that also works. She steers her readers carefully through the bewildering plethora of seed catalogues, explaining how to spot quality and how to choose among the hundreds and hundreds of cultivars for the best results in a given climate.



But that's just for starters. This book might be called The Joy of Gardening, Thompson has such an irresistible delight in the garden, and she makes her plants so real on the page that even beginners will be inspired to try their hand. For them there are lists of the easiest, most rewarding plants and frank advice about avoiding pitfalls. For more sophisticated gardeners who've been long

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ISBN 10:  0553081381 ISBN 13:  9780553081381
Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995
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