The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers: Based on the New York Times Column "Garden Q & A."

About this book

Authoritative accessible and engaging here is a new reference from The New York Times a comprehensive nearly 700-page bible of all the garden news thats fit to print. Based on "Gardeners Q&A." the enormously popular syndicated column 1000 Gardening Questions and Answers is like a passionate conversation between gardeners and gardening experts. Every week readers from around the country send in their most vexing problems--how to divide perennials prune raspberry canes grow basil that really tastes like basil get rid of earwigs find long-lost varieties of flowers keep honeysuckle under control--and every week the authorities at the Times write a column full of answers. Carefully selected updated and expanded by Leslie Land one of the columns two authors here are 1 000 Q&As that add up to an informal encyclopedia of gardening knowledge. The book covers flowers trees shrubs the lawn vegetables herbs fruit indoor plants soil pests and troublemakers. It addresses problems and provides answers to difficulties in every North American zone. Hundreds of line drawings illustrate the book providing botanical identification and demonstrating how-to gardening techniques. In addition sidebars throughout supply supplemental information--"Dos and Donts of Deadheading " "Annuals that Beat the Heat " "To Prune or Not to Prune: The Clematis Question " "Air Layering " "Windowsill Bonsai"--plus quirky facts trivia lore and myth. Its big its got heft its filled to the brim with information. And its so lively it reads like a novel--and belongs on every gardeners potting bench and bedside table.