1001 Old-Time Garden Tips: Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did

by Roger Yepsen

Book Overview

- Old-time wisdom boxes that highlight early gardeners' best planting notions- Tried-and true recipes from yesterday's kitchens- Strange but true features that reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875967663
• ISBN13: 9780875967660
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Advice from the Past

Imagine you could ask your great-grandparents for gardening advice. You would take it in a minute, because the folks who depended on their gardens to feed their families really knew what they were doing. This book is a collection of advice from your grandparents and beyond. Some of the advice goes back hundreds of years. Best section is the home-cooked, and organic solutions to common garden pests. Includes chapters of vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and useful tools.

If I could give this 6 stars, I would!

This is the best gardening book I've ever read, and I highly recommend it. Matter of fact, I always keep two copies in case I lend it and don't get it back! The newspaper and magazine clippings are helpful and creative, as well as entertaining and endearing. You'll have plants growing inside and out, and best of all, no chemicals!!! 342 pages, including introduction, illustrations, tip boxes, references, map, merchant list, recommended readings, and index

Full of ideas not easily found in other resource books.

This book is a joy to pick up when you're bored or looking for gardening ideas or help. I especially enjoy the "Strange But True" sections. New and Long time gardeners will enjoy this publication.

A new gardening jewel!

What a jewel! This book is a well-organized, illustrated collection of OLD gardening tips, including everything from herbs to houseplants to lawns to controlling pests. Paragraph-long entries end with their original publication sources--which are almost as interesting as the advice. The suggestions are timeless. I find I "hear" my grandparents' wisdom about plants on every other page. This book will definitely hit my list of favorite books to give as a gift--but I'll always save a copy for myself.