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GENERAL GARDEN TIPS include natural fertilizers, toilet roll planters, how to fit a garden hose, feeding the birds and removing rust from garden tools; DEALING WITH PESTS AND WEEDS includes beating slugs, discouraging moles and banishing weeds without chemicals; THE VEGETABLE GARDEN includes rotating crops, what to grow, the best tomatoes and storing apples and pears; ALLOTMENTS includes checking the rules, growing flowers amongst the veg and preparing the plot; THE FLOWER GARDEN includes what to grow for the scent , where to buy for success with roses, what to plant in a shady corner and when to dead-head spring bulbs; THE HERB GARDEN includes where to plant kitchen herbs and how to use them, which herbs to dry and how to preserve..
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There is clearly a lot of demand for this kind of book, and I am sure it will sell well. I'm afraid i was very, very disappointed by it. Others may, of course, love it. The W.I. really knows about gardening, and this book comes out under the aegis of that excellent organisation, with the imprint "the WI - inspiring women" (are male gardeners expected to read it too???). It could have been an opportunity to share some genuine, experienced gardening knowledge.
Unfortunately, what I have here in my hand is definitely a gift book, not a practical manual of gardening advice. It is colourful and "quirky", with retro-style illustrations. Each page contains a single snippet of "wisdom" in the middle. Page 32 bears the following: "How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence" - Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881; unusually for him neither witty, nor unexpected, nor wise. Unfortunately, it is a fair sample of what to expect. Page 72 is headed "To dead-head flowers" and contains just the following three sentences: "If you have the patience and time to cut off flowers that are past their best, you'll see your plants continue to bloom. Do this at least every other day. Cut off rose heads as if you are pruning, and perennials down to the ground; just take the heads off annuals" Now this isn't just inadequate, it is misleading, and if you DO dead-head your roses "as if you are pruning" you will most likely curse this book grievously.
Regretably, a lot of the book is an even-handed mix of the worryingly wrong, and the bewilderingly pointless. What little good advice there is could easily be found in any better book on gardening. Even the title of the book as it appears at the top of this page is wrong; the book shown ISN'T "Shrubs for small gardens" at all, and there isn't anything about shrubs to speak of.
Buy this book if you are stuck for a gift, but I'd be very reluctant to get it for a keen gardener. It certainly isn't a book one would buy for oneself.
Unfortunately, what I have here in my hand is definitely a gift book, not a practical manual of gardening advice. It is colourful and "quirky", with retro-style illustrations. Each page contains a single snippet of "wisdom" in the middle. Page 32 bears the following: "How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence" - Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881; unusually for him neither witty, nor unexpected, nor wise. Unfortunately, it is a fair sample of what to expect. Page 72 is headed "To dead-head flowers" and contains just the following three sentences: "If you have the patience and time to cut off flowers that are past their best, you'll see your plants continue to bloom. Do this at least every other day. Cut off rose heads as if you are pruning, and perennials down to the ground; just take the heads off annuals" Now this isn't just inadequate, it is misleading, and if you DO dead-head your roses "as if you are pruning" you will most likely curse this book grievously.
Regretably, a lot of the book is an even-handed mix of the worryingly wrong, and the bewilderingly pointless. What little good advice there is could easily be found in any better book on gardening. Even the title of the book as it appears at the top of this page is wrong; the book shown ISN'T "Shrubs for small gardens" at all, and there isn't anything about shrubs to speak of.
Buy this book if you are stuck for a gift, but I'd be very reluctant to get it for a keen gardener. It certainly isn't a book one would buy for oneself.
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