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Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener |  | Creators: Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara Ellis, Ellen Phillips Publisher: Rodale Books Category: Book
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Media: Paperback Edition: Original Pages: 720 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7 Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.9
ISBN: 1594869170 Dewey Decimal Number: 635.0484 EAN: 9781594869174 ASIN: 1594869170
Publication Date: February 3, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years—and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design. In this indispensable work readers will find: - comprehensive coverage for the entire garden and landscape along with related entries such as Community Gardening, Edible Landscaping, Horticultural Therapy, Stonescaping, and more - the most in-depth information from the trusted Rodale Organic Gardening brand - a completely new section on earth-friendly techniques for gardening in a changing climate, covering wise water management, creating backyard habitats, managing invasive plants and insects, reducing energy use and recycling, and understanding biotechnology - entries all written by American gardeners for American gardeners, with answers for all the challenges presented by various conditions, from the humid Deep South and the mild maritime coasts to the cold far North and the dry Southwest Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has everything anyone needs to create gorgeous, non-toxic gardens in any part of the country.
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Kindle Edition Useless March 13, 2010 Ellie Mae (North Carolina) 5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Getting around in the Kindle Edition of this book is next to impossible. I feel that I completely wasted my money. I won't buy another Kindle reference book unless its downloadable in a format, such as PDF, that I can search for material. The purpose of the Kindle purchase was to eliminate the lugging of multiple books out to my garden this spring. Now I find it is best suited for "brain candy" books LOL. If I am doing something wrong, I don't know what it is and would welcome input.
Informative for new gardeners March 12, 2010 Karen B. Bartlett (Bradyville, TN) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book has alot of information for beginning, as well as experienced gardeners. Very informative from pest control to garden and flower beds, to harvesting and planting just about anything. Great resource book.
thorough February 14, 2010 Just Me (here and there across the USA) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found the earlier edition of this book to be the most thorough of the gardening books I have collected. It goes into greater depth. For example, it was one of the few general gardening books (as opposed to one on just berries) which mentioned the existence of June-bearing and everbearing strawberry plants, and the advantages and disadvantage of each. I look forward to getting this updated edition.
Not encyclopedic, in my opinion February 3, 2010 Jackie (Champaign IL United States) 6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed most of the other books in this series, so perhaps my expectations were high. This book is really just not that helpful. Partly the problem is the "encyclopedic" organization. The book is (obviously) arranged alphabetically. Fine - but then the index and TOC are useless additions of wasted paper that serve no real function, because hey - everything is alphabetical! The index is worthless for cross-referencing. Oddly, some things are alphabetical by scientific name, others by general name, etc. Another reviewer mentioned it was good for general reading. I didn't feel it was readable this way at all, but I wasn't expecting to. It really is organized as an "encyclopedia" and more conducive to looking up specific items. But when you look something up, the information itself is just not that useful. As a beginner to intermediate gardener, I was underwhelmed with the depth of the info - and at 700+ pages, you'd think there would be a lot of information! There are also about a half-dozen small black and white illustrations in the entire book.
Overall - it's okay, but not worth the money or the wasted trees....
A standard for every organic gardener December 9, 2009 J. McCoy (Twinsburg, Ohio) 10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is an excellent reference book that I find myself constantly using. Sometimes it is in reference to a specific problem, other times, I just find it interesting to read. Most often, I will pick it up to look something specific up and then realize that 30 minutes has gone by because I have found other interesting things to read. Great, reliable, organized well, and lots of great ideas.
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