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Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding!
Patricia Lanza
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Book Description
A gardening system that works-- so you don't have to!Turn in your tiller for a stack of old newspapers! Replace your shovel with a layer of grass clippings! Let Pat Lanza show you how you can create lush, successful, easy-care gardens in practically any location without hours of backbreaking digging or noisy tilling.* Practical, first-person advice from an experienced gardener* Great ideas to let you spend more time enjoying your gardens and less time working in them* Specific "lasagna" techniques for the most popular vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruits, and more
Customer Reviews:
It's all true!.......2007-05-13
I was amazed to discover that the techniques in this book actually work! As someone with some mobility issues, gardening has always been an ambivalent activity. I love to garden, but the activity itself is painful. This book provides a relatively pain free solution (for me, anyway)!
In addition to the gardening method, the book also gives you specific tips for successfully growing a large number of fruits, veggies, flowers, herbs, bramble fruits, and more.
This is the easiest way to garden - and do it organically - that I've ever heard of. Hooray for Patricia Lanza! I'll be Lasagna Gardening for as long as I continue to garden. Buy the book!!! You won't regret it.
Lasagna Gardening.......2007-05-12
I, for one, am going to do the Lasagna Gardening way this year. I can't wait. It makes so much sense to garden this way. I am so glad that this book came my way because I am rather new to gardening and lazy, I must add because I really don't care to bend over to weed the garden.
This should be my new way from now on.
Lasagna Gardening.......2007-01-09
Ordered this book as a gift because the receiver truly enjoyed reading our copy. Excellent.
All-Around Organic Gardening Book.......2006-11-12
This book is an all-around gardening reference. It follows organic methods to ensure safe production of vegetables, fruits, and flowers, and covers a wide range of gardening topics, with information about growing vegetables, herbs, berries, flowers, fall and winter gardening, pest control, and garden design. The chapters include detailed sections describing growth habits and techniques for specific plants, arranged alphabetically, as well as summary tables for quick reference noting hardiness zones, the size of plants, and tips.
So what is lasagna gardening? It is a gardening method that Lanza developed that involves layering growing media in beds in such a way that there is a continuous supply of nutrients and organic matter for the plants. This unique layering method eliminates the need for rototilling or digging, while minimizing weeds. One example of layering that Lanza describes is to start by putting a layer of newspaper directly on undisturbed sod or lawn, followed by a layer of peat moss, some barn litter, more peat moss, some compost, more peat moss, grass clippings, more peat moss, chopped leaves, more peat moss, and wood ashes. This material is then allowed to sit for a few months for the layers to decompose, creating a rich, light, mostly weed free soil; covered with black plastic to raise the temperature, the garden bed may be ready for planting in as little as six weeks. The actual components of the layers will be determined by what is readily available in the neighborhood. Lanza provides suggestions for what materials work well in her system, as well as some suggestions for how they can be obtained at little or no cost.
While her lasagna method certainly sounds as if it would work well, the book goes far beyond explaining just this method, and provides answers to many general gardening questions that have little relation to lasagna gardening (such as rock gardening). In seeking to be complete, a few of her descriptions sound a little far-fetched, as if she were relying on others' experience or simply guessing (such as when she suggests that one can tell if elderberries are ripe by taste-testing for sweetness--has she ever tasted an elderberry straight off the bush?). Nevertheless, the layer approach sounds promising as well as easy and organic, and the reference lists of plants are very useful for garden planning.
I read it-I did it-It works!.......2006-10-16
It's a great idea, one that saved me backbreaking work on getting new garden beds established in a very short time. I wish I had heard of this book years before.
The hardest part is lugging home the bags and bags of soil needed. But at least I avoided the digging that breaks nails, backs and spirit. Plus I can start out with organic soil in the first place.
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The Fence Bible: How to plan, install, and build fences and gates to meet every home style and property need, no matter what size your yard.
Jeff Beneke
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Book Description
A fence is more than just a barrier. Used in imaginative ways, it can become an architectural feature that blends well with the style of your house, a landscape element that enhances the appearance of your property, or an accent piece that helps define a part of your yard or garden.
In The Fence Bible hands-on home improvement expert Jeff Beneke provides an in-depth, comprehensive how-to encyclopedia that enables homeowners to choose and build the fences and gates that are best for their landscape--both for appearance and function.
Beneke suggests the appropriate types of fence to keep the swimming pool secure, con fine the livestock, keep deer away from the garden, or create outdoor living spaces. He then discusses the essentials of proper fence design and provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for planning, building, maintaining, and repairing any style of fence.
Beneke covers every kind of fencing: wood, masonry, and metal, as well as shrubs, hedges, and trees.
Whether you have a tiny urban backyard, a sprawling suburban plot, or a small spread in the country, this book is sure to help you find the perfect fence.
Customer Reviews:
Pretty Pictures.......2007-01-17
This book has lots and lots of pretty pictures of fences that are not explained or detailed. There is decent information about rock walls, but otherwise this book really lacks in the substance needed to build fences.
Excellent purchase - highly recomended.......2007-01-16
The author (Jeff Beneke) has a nice way of explaining options in a approachable and casual manner making the project of designing/building a fence and/or gate much more fun. This book is very complete in it's review of latches, hinges, fence options for consideration along with beatiful photography and sketchs to illustrate ideas or concepts.
Even the guys at our local fence supply company where we bought our materials were impressed with this book when I used it to reference a particular piece of hardware.
Review from someone who's not known as a handyman.......2006-07-05
I bought this book to build a 6' privacy fence. I didn't know the first thing about building a fence but this book takes you by the hand and walks you through each step. The author does a great job of keeping things simple for the reader/beginner and includes illustrations and photos to help you envision the process. I keep referring back to sections of this book as I continure to build. Highly reccomend this book to all beginners.
Fences: In thought, word, and deed........2005-09-21
"The Fence Bible: ..." by Jeff Beneke is an excellent, comprehensive guide. The title says it all, and the author delivers. Whether you want to build your own fence, or contract the project out this book can help you get it done right.
Fully lives up to its name.......2005-04-06
Jeff Beneke is an expert woodworker, house renovator, gardener, and author of more than a dozen highly commended home-improvement books designed specifically for the non-specialist general reader wanting to renovate, remodel, or otherwise improve their home and property values. The Fence Bible: How To Plan, Install, And Build Fences And Gates To Meet Every Home Style And Property Need, No Matter What Size Your Yard is Beneke's latest (and in many ways) his best "how to" title to date. This 272 page instruction manual is superbly illustrated with full color photographs and exemplary illustrations from cover to cover. If you want any kind of fencing on any kind of property, then The Fence Bible is the complete reference on how to build one whether you choose wood, stone, brick, concrete, mesh, wrought iron, living hedges, or anything else. Also available in a hardcover format (1580175864, $34.95), The Fence Bible is one reference that fully lives up to its name! Also very highly recommended from Storey Publishing is Peter Jeswald's How To Build Paths, Steps & Footbridges: The Fundamentals Of Planning, Designing, And Constructing Creative Walkways In Your Home Landscape (1580174876, $19.95, paperback; 158017-5759, $29.95, hardcover)
Customer Reviews:
Gardening Book.......2007-07-10
Great Book--I have actually tried this method for the last 8 months--I live in the desert close to Boise ID. It has cut my gardening work greatly--the mulching holds the moisture in the ground = LESS watering! and VERY FEW weeds!!!!
GREAT BOOK - GREAT AUTHOR.......2002-08-29
With arthritis, degenerative disk disease and spinal stenosis, I may very well be spending my last years in a wheelchair. With Ms. Stout's method of gardening, I will never go hungry. It is possible to plant a few plants (or harvest a few things) every day in the very early morning hours when I can stand to be outside. When my kids come see me, they lay a few bales of hay (or straw) around here and there so I can grab a handful and throw it on anything growing without permission. She was a wise old woman (with a great sense of humor)!!
Nowork gardening, easy reading, lots of information!.......1999-12-22
My mom gave me this book ages ago, which is why I have a copy (it's been out of print for a while). I finally decided to read it this winter, and have been enjoying it immensely. It's based on previously published articles, so you won't find all the information on asparagus all on one page. But her writing style is clear and easy, and so engaging and entertaining that you don't mind reading it from cover to cover. Also, there is a handy index in the back, so that you can always just go to the pages that have the useful info on any particular item. I liked the book so much that I decided to order Ruth's No Work Gardening for the Aging, Busy, and Indolent. It just arrived today and I can't wait to start reading it!
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Great design ideas and practical tips.
Walks readers through the remodeling process to developing plans.
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Here's a beautifully illustrated volume making it possible for apartment or condo dwellers, or those with only a small plot of land, a deck, pathway, or even a rooftop to create a garden in a small space. A creative and practical sourcebook of innovative ideas and simple techniques for transforming a limited space into a gardening oasis.
Customer Reviews:
Container gardeners beware........2003-03-02
Several things turned me off about the book. First, it's seems very British for some reason. Second, it goes in to pages and pages and pages of assessing your situation, whether you are a blind gardener, "the importance of design", then gets into water gardens and water features, and raised beds. Suffice it to say that it didn't seem very geared toward the apartment owner with a 7x10 foot balcony!
It's not there isn't useful information in this book, but it's about plants in general, though. This is not totally geared toward the container gardener. I guess that's said in the subtitle: Creating gardens on patios, balconies, terraces, AND IN OTHER SMALL SPACES. About 85 pages into the book, about types of hanging baskets, window boxes and other containers. Then it gets into container design where you choose compatible plant partnerships. But even here there's a little trouble, because the illustrations show plants that are NOT IN CONTAINERS but in a garden setting. From there you get into soils, how to propagate the plants, how to control pests (suggests picking off caterpillars will do...ewwww!),
I needed more from this book. I needed a book on containers and tha plants that grow well in them. One that talked about a wide variety of plants, especially those that grow well in my zone. I could care less about the parts of a plant and stuff I had in biology. In the very back, where it talks about "lack of space makes this plant list no more than a suggestion." Well, if they hadn't filled it with [stuff] what was off-topic, there may well have been room to discuss more plants. The main problem with this book, in my opinion, is that it lacks focus.
Bottom line, I guess it depends on what you need out of this book. This book works well as a general plant care reference book, but if you need a book specifically on the special needs of plants in containers, I'd try another book. One that was more helpful to me, and one which I consider my own personal bible as far as container plants goes, is called Container Plants for Patios, Balconies, and Window Boxes by Halina Heitz, published by Barron's. I have plumbagos, and while there's no mention of them in the No-Garden Gardener, you'll find useful references to them there.
Black thumbs be gone!.......2000-04-25
This is probably not a book for more experienced gardeners... but luckily I'm not. The writing on the design aspect of the non-garden seems common sense (and it is), but the book is a real treasure for the beginning gardener and those of us who just have two left thumbs. This is because it includes basic guides on such diverse topics as: plant biology, planting (from rock gardens to hanging plants), caring for the plant, propagation and pest control. Guides to planting and plant maintenance include diagrams and step-by-step instruction for easy use. The book's best feature though is its lovely photography; the photos are intended to inspire the reader with ideas about the design of their no-garden garden.
Customer Reviews:
A fabulaus surprise.......2000-10-14
I am constantlly looking for new publications, materials in the market and this book surpased all of my expectations. We think that Elle Deco is a marvillous magazine and this book resumes the best of the gardens that they have pictured. The contents presentation is specially interesting as they devide gardens in to different categories, for example, exotic gardens, kitchen gardens, small gardens, etc. Beutifull photography, a perfect presentation and a wonderfull art design.
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California has unique and varying growing conditions. This easy-to-use guide for California gardens gives you step-by-step instructions on selecting and growing for more than 150 low-maintenance plants and shrubs that thrive in diverse California, including annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees.
In addition, you'll find gardening basics for maximum result, such as:
- The benefits of one-time soil preparation
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- The "less is more" fertilization technique that keeps your plants in perfect shape
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Customer Reviews:
A gardener with a sense of humor!.......2007-07-12
Intrigued by the title, I began reading this book and found myself laughing out loud with the author's descriptions. Though a good book for anyone with an interest in gardening, with its easy-to-follow instructions, beautiful pictures and recommendations, this is also a 'good read' for those of us who are already gardening addicts. I was glad to find someone else who couldn't pass up an intriguing plant even though we had absolutely no idea where we were going to put it. This is a book for the curious, the experimenter, and those who simply find joy in the garden. I loved the book, have already enjoyed reading the commentary over and over again...and, of course, will look for some of the recommendations I haven't heard of before. This would also make a great gift for any 'budding' gardener!
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No, this isn't a slimy murder mystery! Here's a guide to natural pest control in your home and garden (and even on your pets). It offers simple techniques to help you avoid the use of toxic pesticides and chemicals around the house, and is a welcome alternative to the old "Kills Them Dead" mentality of poison sprays and powders common in the past (which is where they should be--the past). Here's the guide you've been waiting for!
Customer Reviews:
Save your money.......2005-10-26
This book provides nice reviews of life cycles of various pests and beneficial speicies, but very little practical, useful information for controlling most of the pests. Very superficial work.
Garden companion.......2003-05-25
This is probably the most handy garden book in my collection for quick reference for a variety of maladies. Although it is small in size it is big on help. The author is a local weatherman in San Diego and many of the garden tidbits included on his televison weather segment are in this book. If you want to know to rid your garden of pests in a "humane" way than this book is for you. The recipes are more on the organic natural method as opposed to insecticides. There are plenty of old recipres for geting rid of those unwanted visitors to your garden. The book also provides good information on the beneficial visitors including some of the lesser known variaties. For example, recently I was being "bugged" by these hovering flies that mimic the flying motion of helicopters and I was trying to think of a way to rid my garden of them. After checking this book again I found out they are Syrphid Flies and actually are great pollinators and beneficial for controling aphids. Besides telling you o f the purpose of the insects or critters there are also mini history lessons on the origins of the visitors to your garden. Like this little tidbit of garden facts there are countless other informative ideas to help you have a better garden. Recommended for garden hobbyists who like to read in the garden after putting in some labor.
A COMPLETE AND NATURAL SOLUTION TO GARDEN PESTS.......1999-06-12
I read the entire book from cover to cover with a highlighter in hand. I could not stop reading (and highlighting). This book was exactly what I was searching for. A complete and natural guide to ridding my garden of those pesky pests. I have used many of Loren's "receipes" and can honestly say they work. I would and do recommend this book to anyone who has a love for gardening, a love for nature, and a hate for destructive pests who get in the way.
An excellent resource!.......1999-05-14
I listened to Loren's tips for years on television. It is nice to have so many of them compiled in one handy resource. The tips contained are cost-effective, easy to use, and far better for people and the enviroment. Highly recommended!
Book Description
The northern garden, with its unique growing conditions, presents gardeners with a major challenge. Many popular plants simply do not grow well in colder climates. Now, this easy-to-use guide for northern gardens gives you step-by-step instructions on choosing and caring for more than 150 low-maintenance plants and shrubs that thrive in colder climates including…
- Annuals
- Perennials
- Vines
- Shrubs
- Trees
In addition, you'll discover other important gardening basics for maximum results…
- The benefits of one-time soil preparation
- The secret of summer and winter mulching
- The "less is more" fertilization technique that keeps your plants in perfect shape
- The best methods for irrigation
- Tips on keeping your plants pest free without over-using traditional pest controls
Tough Plants for Northern Gardens…your solution for a beautiful, healthy, low-care garden.
Customer Reviews:
Very helpful for a beginning gardener.......2007-09-06
As a beginning gardener, this book has helped me quickly focus in on plants that will work where I live. The pictures are great for identifying neighbors' plants. His descriptions are brief, but more candid (and helpful) than the dry, encyclopedic listings which can be found in other books. Plus his writing is fun to read. I initially borrowed this (and many many many others) from the library. This is one of the few I am buying for ongoing reference.
northern garden plants.......2007-08-20
Book is overpriced, but it costs even more at the bookstore.There isn't really anything new here in this book or anything that couldn't be found in other garden books, in fact, this book offers even a little less than some garden books.
Not your garden-variety gardening book!.......2007-04-20
I live in the upper Midwest, where the climate is extremely cold, wet, and windy, ( except when it's extremely hot, wet and windy) and the growing season is short. But with the help of this book, I learned how to avoid spending money on plants and garden items that just don't work. That means more money to spend on plants that do work, and more free time to enjoy them.
If you live in the region covered by this book, have a garden, or would like have a garden, you really need this book. If you have been baffled or thwarted by all the gardening books and magazines that seem to make things too complicated, or if you just don't know where to start, you need this book! It lives up to the title, because the plants listed in this book really do grow beautifully in our climate with hardly any effort, once you get them in the ground. There is enough variety to satisfy just about anyone's taste in colors and plant forms, and most of the plants are easy to find in your local nursery.
I loved the author's sense of humor and his wonderful attitude-finally someone with the sense to say what I always wanted to hear. Lazy gardening is good gardening!!
Great! Entertaining! Helpful! Real! - Highly Recommended!.......2005-09-30
This is the best gardening book I own. Orginally, I borrowed it from my local library for 6 months. I just couldn't take it back-kept renewing it and renewing it. It was indispensable. Finally, I broke down and bought 5 copies - for myself, my mother and all my friends. Mr. Rushing gives great advice for northern gardners, as we are kind of a "special" club. Also, he has a wonderful sense of humour, so the book is enjoyable to read. I still snicker over some of his comments. It is a great gift for ANY "Northern Gardener," novice or expert.
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
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