Gardening Through the Year: A Step-By-Step Guide to Seasonal Gardening Tasks

By Peter McHoy and Jonathan Edwards

Book Overview

Illustrated in colour throughout, this is th e first comprehensive step-by-step practical guide to garden ing season by season. It includes projects for the flower ga rden, the kitchen garden, and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0831738693
• ISBN13: 9780831738693
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

If You Want to Know How to Plant, Ask an English Gardener!

That's exactly what I did when I bought Peter McHoy's "Gardening Through the Year" while on a trip to England. The book is subtitled, "A step-by-step guide to seasonal gardening tasks," and it is all that...and more.This full color book is divided into each of the four seasons, with each season further subdivided into early, mid and late seasons. Each of the 12 chapters begins with a list of seasonal jobs for the kitchen garden, flower garden, greenhouse and conservatory (you gotta love those Brits!). There's also a list of plants that are at their best at each time of year. Various garden tasks are pictured and clearly described in step-by-step sequence.Of particular interest to this novice are chapters on pruning and propagating from seed, layering, and stem and leaf cuttings. There are also excellent sections on overwintering plants and how to plant baskets and containers.McHoy's book proves that there can be something to do in the garden nearly every day of the year. It's a great cure for the winter doldrums and a valuable reference throughout the year. Plus, you can impress your friends with charming phrases such as "pricking out" and "potting on"...delivered with an English accent, of course!