The Year I Ate My Yard Author:Tony Kienitz In this thoughtful and funny book, Tony Kienitz challenges our notions of what a vegetable garden should provide. Instead of growing freakishly giant, unblemished and insipid crops using factory-made fertilizers and nasty poisons, Kienitz offers practical advice and guidelines for creating gardens that cooperate with natural systems. He shows th... more »at by changing the way you look at a vegetable garden you will change the way the plants respond. Most importantly, Kienitz stresses that a vegetable garden, or for that matter, any garden, only needs love for it -to thrive-and he provides thoughts on how we can bestow that love.« less