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Trowel & Error
by Sharon Lovejoy
Ever since she was old enough to help her grandmother in the vegetable garden, Sharon Lovejoy has spent her life working with plants - and along the way, through "trowel and error," she's accumulated hundreds and hundreds of remedies, tips, short-cuts, and cure-alls. Trowel and Error collects all of her homespun vegetable garden advice into an inviting, environmentally friendly, whimsically illustrated yet dead-on helpful book that will benefit every heirloom vegetable gardener, beginner or experienced.
Cure plant viruses with spoiled milk. Make a natural and effective insecticide out of fresh basil. Place flat stones under squash or melons to hasten ripening. Recycle an old apple corer as the perfect dibler for muscari and other small bulbs. Start rosemary cuttings in a green glass bottle. Sprinkle baby powder over seedlings to discourage rabbits. Crush a garlic clove and apply it to your skin as an insect repellent. Trowel and Error is a direct line to the kind of practical wisdom that comes only after a lifetime of experience. The book is indexed by problem, plant, pest, and solution, and includes a list of tools and common household items--borax, cornmeal, vinegar--that completes the vegetable gardener's arsenal.
Paperback 336 pages
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$13.95
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