The Avant Gardener Author:Thomas Powell For the budding novice or the expert, The Avant Gardener offers information on new discoveries and plants that are making gardening America's fastest-growing hobby. — Its 27 chapters cover every aspect of gardening. Unusual "new" flowers...rediscovered old-fashioned ones--improved trees and shrubs--interior "plant sc... more »aping"--dream greenhouses--scented lawns (and long-season grasses)--fruits and nuts--container gardening--the most useful tools, products, and new procedures. And each entry is followed the name and addresses of its sources, just where you need them, without having to thumb back and forth through the book.
The Avant Gardener is a mine of useful and fascinating information, including:
How to keep a garden growing despite shortages of commercial fertilizers
Which organic, homemade, or inexpensive mulches and compost materials have the highest nutritive content
Why bananas skins are good for roses and eggshells for houseplants
How to break up a clay soil without breaking your back.
With The Avant Gardener by their side, the new gardener will save money and avoid disappointments by learning how to garden the modern way, as well as finding out which variety of plant will best suit their needs. The veteran gardener will be delighted with the numbers of new plants that are available to gardeners who know where to find them.« less