Amy Stewart had a simple dream: She wanted a garden. From the Ground Up is Stewart's chronicle of the seedlings and weeds, cats and compost, worms and watering that transformed a plot into a glorious garden. Delighting in triumphs and confessing to gardening sins, Stewart dishes...
Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She wanted a garden. When she and her husband finished graduate school, they headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they found a modest seaside cottage with a small backyard. It wasn't much--a twelve-hundred-square-foot...