Parsnips in the Snow: Talks with Midwestern Gardeners

by Mary Swander and Jane Anne Staw

Book Overview

Interviews with twelve gardeners reveal their approaches to growing vegetables and flowers in the harsh climate of the Midwest. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877452792
• ISBN13: 9780877452799
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Like speaking to your grandpa about his garden

I found this book to be not only entertaining, but informative. It is a tour of the midwest and its vegetable gardners. Within the authors' investigation of the various gardens he finds are slices of each gardner's life and their views on the world. Each personality is shown through the garden, from a man who live in a shack and swears to letting his vegetable vines ramble wildly, to an older man who drives from his home to his plot with percise neat rows. It is also a nice compilation of gardening tips that read like a conversation with an old-timer. While reading you can almost picture these people, sitting before you and pointing out the potato bugs on the leaf, or letting the soil fall through their fingers, harvesting tomatoes, ect . . . I recommend this book because it shows pretty much why we are drawn to plant our own crops and watch them grow.