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Gardening For Dummies [Kindle Edition]

Bill Marken (Author), Sue Fisher (Author), Michael MacCaskey (Author)

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"...comprehensive..easy–to–follow..." (Amateur Gardening Magazine, April 2006)

" A splendid guide for the absolute Beginner..." ( Gardens Monthly, December 2006

"It′s astonishingly comprehensive and really does cover everything the aspiring gardener needs to know..." (Let′s Talk, December 2007)

"...comprehensive..easy–to–follow..." (Amateur Gardening Magazine, April 2006)

" A splendid guide for the absolute Beginner..." ( Gardens Monthly, December 2006)

"It′s astonishingly comprehensive and really does cover everything the aspiring gardener needs to know..." (Let′s Talk, December 2007)

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If you want to develop your green fingers and be part of one of the most popular pastimes in the UK, Gardening For Dummies is the book for you. Packed with expert advice, helping the novice get a solid start and the seasoned gardener broaden their breadth of knowledge, you can learn and develop skills in how to do everything from planning your planting to controlling pests - and everything in between. Full of useful illustrations and insider's tips this book will be a vital reference for everyone with an interest and love of gardening, whether you have a few containers in the back yard or a huge back garden with a rolling lawn.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 9199 KB
Print Length: 400 pages
Publisher: For Dummies (16 Feb 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B004PGMI9G
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #124,728 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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78 of 79 people found the following review helpful

A lovely, comprehensive book 13 Jan 2006

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I bought this book for my daughter who has just moved into her first house with a garden, but ended up reading it myself! It's a comprehensive guide to gardening which is intended for beginners, but as someone who's done some gardening in their time, I found some really useful advice here, as it goes into a fair bit of detail on topics such as lawns and special topics such as containder gardens and gardens for wildlife. There's also a 'tear-out' gardening calendar at the front of the book that tells you what to do when, at a glance. I found this book had far more useful information in it than many of the 'glossy' gardening books out there, and is jargon-free and non-patronising. Highly recommended!

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

Gardening without pictures 15 Mar 2008

By A reader

Format:Paperback

I bought this as a gift for someone who really needs basic gardening instruction. The only photographs it has are 20 photographs of flowers; not a single photo showing how to do things. Diagrams are limited to around one per chapter too. I returned it as it simply was not fit for purpose. For example, the chapter on pruning and propagating had one basic outline diagram on pruning and one on propagating - hardly enough to help a dummy. I recommend instead the RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening, or RHS Month by Month gardening. The latter answers the question "what should I be doing in my garden this weekend?", the former answers the question "and how do I do it?", and for the dummies amongst us, there are millions of pictures, diagrams and photos to back up the text.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Worthless for Novice Gardeners! 14 July 2008

By Anne Chalmers

Format:Paperback

I bought this book as I moved to a house with a large garden. I assumed this book would be able to help me to tend/care for various plants in the garden. The title and descpription led me to assume that I'd find out useful things like when/if to prune things. What to do with tomato plants (budding, pollinating, watering information), and maybe even a chart that tells a novice when to do key tasks.

Nothing like this at all - for tomato you will find out that they are a greenhouse plant (no, really!) and for apple trees, you will find out that you need to go to an 'Apple Day' at a large garden in your area!!

So if you get a house with an established garden, and not buying a house with a blank plot of earth - this is not the book for you. Really disappointing.

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Good for Dummies!!

Very well written as are all books in the series, explains everything but allows you to move on quickly if you know a little about a certain topic. Read more

Published 12 months ago by Mrs. D. Wilkie

Pointless!!

I bought this book because I already have the 'normal' sized 'Grow your own fruit and veg for dummies', which is really good value, but this 2" book is a waste of money. Read more

Published 14 months ago by A. L. Ogram

Good starter and reference book

This book is good if you are starting out gardening for the first time, but really doesn't have that long a shelf life, which I suppose means it does EXACTLY what it says it does.

Published on 27 Mar 2010 by GJH Williams

Great book

As a novice gardener I have found this book a great help, information from everything to what bulbs to buy & how deep to plant them to how to prune a rose bush, a good buy for all... Read more

Published on 22 Nov 2009 by mellieg72

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