The Woodchuck's Complete Guide to Gardening - Essential Tips for Beginners & Experts | Outdoor Planting, Landscaping & Home Garden Care

This book is a collection of tips and garden lore written especially for the Northern New England gardener. It is arranged seasonally, with sections for spring, summer, fall and winter, and a separate section on children and gardening. The chapters include poems, recipes, and photographs as well as tips on seasonal gardening tasks and organic and biodynamic gardening practices. At the end of each section is an appendix with lists of books, catalogs, and more specific details on topics covered in the section. End material for the book includes a glossary and index.This book isn't an all-around gardening reference (like Ed Smith's Vegetable Gardener's Bible, for instance), but it does include information on a wide range of gardening topics. The integration of poetry, stories, and seasonal wild edibles makes it an engaging book to read, and every reader is likely to find some new information. Gardeners in the far north need to keep in mind, however, that while Krupp gardens in Vermont, he lives in one of the warmer regions of the state, so they may need to plan for cooler conditions than those Krupp describes.