- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Rodale Press; New edition edition (30 Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0875969178
- ISBN-13: 978-0875969176
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.9 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,876,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Do you want a luxurious lawn? More beautiful flowerbeds, or hints for making your yard look bigger or smaller? You'll find all that and more in 1001 Old Time Garden Tips. This incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century gardeners knew what they were doing - they had to because they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation. Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. This book includes: Old time wisdom boxes that highlight early gardeners best planting notions; Tried and true recipes from yesterday's kitchens; Strange but true features that reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques; A recommended reading list
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114 of 116 people found the following review helpful
A new gardening jewel!
22 Sep 1998
Format:Hardcover
What a jewel! This book is a well-organized, illustrated collection of OLD gardening tips, including everything from herbs to houseplants to lawns to controlling pests. Paragraph-long entries end with their original publication sources--which are almost as interesting as the advice. The suggestions are timeless. I find I "hear" my grandparents' wisdom about plants on every other page. This book will definitely hit my list of favorite books to give as a gift--but I'll always save a copy for myself.
68 of 81 people found the following review helpful
Full of ideas not easily found in other resource books.
14 Nov 1998
Format:Hardcover
This book is a joy to pick up when you're bored or looking for gardening ideas or help. I especially enjoy the "Strange But True" sections. New and Long time gardeners will enjoy this publication.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A Terrific, Highy Useful Book!!
21 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
1001 Old Time Garden Tips
I enjoyed this book very much, and find that it is one of those gardening books that I keep going back to for new advice.
What is interesting about 1001 Old Time Garden Tips is that so much of the advice, the tips, so much is old stuff, good old advice that has often been forgotten. I do landscaping, design work, horticultural consulting, and am a garden writer myself ( Allergy-Free Gardening, and most recently, Safe Sex in the Garden ) and I love to have good, solid, informative, well-written gardening books on hand for quick reference.
The longer I garden ( and I've been at it for close to 5 decades now ) the more I appreciate an organic approach. 1001 Old Time Garden Tips: Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did, sure has the longest title I ever saw! But it is also a mighty good, easy to follow, highly useful book and if you garden, I'm almost certain you'd enjoy owning it. I know I sure like my copy. The editor for this great collection of useful tips and advice, Roger Yepsen, has done a terrific job.
I enjoyed this book very much, and find that it is one of those gardening books that I keep going back to for new advice.
What is interesting about 1001 Old Time Garden Tips is that so much of the advice, the tips, so much is old stuff, good old advice that has often been forgotten. I do landscaping, design work, horticultural consulting, and am a garden writer myself ( Allergy-Free Gardening, and most recently, Safe Sex in the Garden ) and I love to have good, solid, informative, well-written gardening books on hand for quick reference.
The longer I garden ( and I've been at it for close to 5 decades now ) the more I appreciate an organic approach. 1001 Old Time Garden Tips: Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did, sure has the longest title I ever saw! But it is also a mighty good, easy to follow, highly useful book and if you garden, I'm almost certain you'd enjoy owning it. I know I sure like my copy. The editor for this great collection of useful tips and advice, Roger Yepsen, has done a terrific job.
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