You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening
- ISBN13: 9780743270144
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This is not your grandmother’s gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality.Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com, provides guidance for both beginning and intermediate gardeners with engaging tips, projects, and recipes — whether you have access to a small backyard or merely to a fire escape. You Grow Girl eliminates the intimidation factor and reveals how easy and enjoyable it can be to cultivate plants and flowers even when resources and space are limited. Divided into accessible sections like Plan, Plant, and Grow, You Grow Girl takes readers through the entire gardening experience: Preparing soil Nurturing seedlings Fending off critters Reaping the bounty Readying plants for winter Preparing for the seasons aheadGayla also includes a wealth … More >>
You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening
This book is fantastic. I have been gardening for 8 years and I wish I had had this book when I started. Even though it’s target audience is the young city dweller. I, a suburban housewife and mother of two, find it more useful than all my other gardening books (I love Martha, but I just don’t have that kind of time or money!).
All the basics are here, distilled into an easy to read format that is fun to read and ispiring. In addition, the book has lots of fun projects that are affordable and easy.
I ran across http://www.yougrowgirl.com and found this book. It’s given me a completely different perspective on gardening….from clueless to hopeful. After reading this book I feel I have the confidence to grow things that don’t die after the first week. The book was very easy to read, very colourful and interesting. I highly recommend it to someone who is even just slightly interested in plants.
Great book about gardening, particularly urban and organic gardening. The author’s passion for gardening just exudes from this book and inspires me to grow things and get my hands dirty! It provides a very good lesson on what can and should be done; however, it doesn’t go into a great deal of specifics (but how can it, since it covers so much ground!)… you will need to do more homework to do what you are inspired by this book to do. Fortunately there is a great list of resources in the back. You Grow Girl also contains a lot of garden-related projects (like making a gardening tool belt (apron), making seed packets, and making herbal bath & body products. Highly recommended reading, especially right before spring! YOU GROW GIRL! (For additional resources, and to get a feel for how material is presented, visit the website! yougrowgirl.com!)
This book is absolutely fantastic. It’s really filled in all the information that my mom’s gardening books left out. This book is chock full of great information on plant types, garden pests, fertilizing, and how to make your own fertilizers and pest repellants. There are even great craft projects so you can make your own garden apron and seed packets. Best of all, the author’s website http://www.yougrowgirl.com has more information for when you’re ready to take it to the next level, or if you just need some extra help.
This has been a great addition to my gardening books!
Although I question the subtitle (not much groundbreaking info here!), I love this book. I have a number of fat, wordy gardening tomes, but this provides the most essential, critical info in a short, simple format. Great job!