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

Garden expert and lovable eccentric Ruth Stout once said: "At the age of 87 I grow vegetables for two people the year-round, doing all the work myself and freezing the surplus. I tend several flower beds, write a column every week, answer an awful lot of mail, do the housework and cooking-and never do any of these things after 11 o'clock in the morning!"

This, her first book about her no-work gardening system: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back, was the kind of book people can...