How to Have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

by Ruth Stout

Overview

Ruth Stout's classic How to Have a Green Thumb is a welcoming and trusted advisor for any gardener seeking a natural, bountiful harvest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781648373527
Publisher:	Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Publication date:	10/17/2023
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Best known for her no-work garden books, Ruth Stout is an American author. Frustrated by traditional techniques and practices, Ruth simply planted seeds and waited to see what happened. Eventually, she determined that thick mulch was the best method for a low-maintenance, organic garden. Ruth wrote several books and had a long-running series of articles in Organic Gardening and Farming magazine on her gardening methods. She left the copyright to How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back to Plan International USA, a humanitarian assistance and international development organization focused on girls' rights. Visit www.planusa.org to learn more about their work in more than 80 countries.

Editorial Reviews

"...really delights while it instructs. A labour-saving book explaining how much of the back-ache of gardening can be eliminated by an intelligent policy of mulching and the use of natural rather than artificial methods of cultivation." -The Book Exchange

"This is a completely captivating little book about a woman's deep love and respect for the soil and its produce. Her devotion and care to growing things is wonderful to read about and it kind of makes you all warm and happy inside."-The Hartford Times

". . . offers hope to people whose time and energy are limited."-Dorothy S. Manks, Horticulture

". . . Miss Stout's chief delight is in proving the experts wrong and testing short cuts-mulching portulaca, growing gardenias in shade, renewing strawberry beds without buying new plants, and especially mulching with spoiled hay from the neighbors. She has had fun; and the reader shares it."-Lewis Gannett., New York Herald Tribune

"It isn't often that we get this excited about a new book . . . useful information on all phases of vegetable and flower growing . . . well documented. "- Organic Gardening and Farming

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