From Grass to Gardens: How to Reap Bounty from a Small Yard"Inspires, sustains, surprises, and consoles."--National Geographic Traveler (for River Time) "The good stuff . . . Not only good history, but an engaging intellectual autobiography."--Sue Hubbell, New York Times Book Review (for Dangerous Birds) Janet Lembke loves to garden. But when she moved into her urban home in Virginia, she only had one-eighth of an acre to work with: a small front yard and a small backyard. How she traded a postage-stamp lawn for an edible cornucopia is what this enchanting book is all about. Lembke joyfully guides us on her gardening journey, in chapters called: "Tomato Haven" "The Grass Extermination Project" "Tools of the Trade" "How a Garden Grows" "Herbs" "Flowers" "Vegetables" "Outwitting the Gardener" "Wooing the Green Man, Courting Dame Kind" and "Garden Dreams" From Grass to Garden is chock-full of tips and advice for gardeners with tiny plots, including what plants are compatible with others; garden paths and seating; what vegetables and plants work best in front versus backyards; and more. She offers everything a hopeful gardener needs to reap bounty for the kitchen table from what was once a small, pesky lawn. |
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... crop! Soon, the inimitable sweetness of a homegrown tomato! I harvested and savored a few, but many of the fruits, both green and red, that I'd had my eye on would go missing. The culprit was discovered one morning as it tried to haul a ...
... crop! Soon, the inimitable sweetness of a homegrown tomato! I harvested and savored a few, but many of the fruits, both green and red, that I'd had my eye on would go missing. The culprit was discovered one morning as it tried to haul a ...
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... crop. The task became easy when the Chief presented me with a minitiller, a little twenty-pound machine that purred up and down the aisles between the rows. We'd never had a cleaner garden. But the Carolina days came to an end the March ...
... crop. The task became easy when the Chief presented me with a minitiller, a little twenty-pound machine that purred up and down the aisles between the rows. We'd never had a cleaner garden. But the Carolina days came to an end the March ...
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... summer and a cole-crop patch in the fall. My journal records the first bright yellow cuke blossoms in early June, the first fruit three weeks later. The variety is one called 'Little Leaf', and THE GRASS EXTERMINATION PROJECT 13.
... summer and a cole-crop patch in the fall. My journal records the first bright yellow cuke blossoms in early June, the first fruit three weeks later. The variety is one called 'Little Leaf', and THE GRASS EXTERMINATION PROJECT 13.
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... crops like wheat and maize that are usually planted in fields, not yards and parks. Areas devoted to grass have been around for millennia but morphed into Lawn as we know it today only about three hundred years ago, a mere blip of time ...
... crops like wheat and maize that are usually planted in fields, not yards and parks. Areas devoted to grass have been around for millennia but morphed into Lawn as we know it today only about three hundred years ago, a mere blip of time ...
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... cropping or shearing the vegetable surface of lawns, grass plats, and pleasure grounds.” It was a clunky device, made completely of cast iron, and its operation must have required considerable muscle— man's work, not woman's. But it did ...
... cropping or shearing the vegetable surface of lawns, grass plats, and pleasure grounds.” It was a clunky device, made completely of cast iron, and its operation must have required considerable muscle— man's work, not woman's. But it did ...
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