You Grow Girl: You Grow Girl

by Gayla Trail

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743270142
• ISBN13: 9780743270144
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

fun way to garden

Perfect for beginners. Lots of tips. Fun and quick read. Some of the resources in the back of the book are dated. A good number were printed in the 90s. Makes me question some of what was in this book and want to branch out to other books for confirmation that the tips are reliable. What worked best in the 90s might not work best now. Also not sure a gardening book should have bath and body recipes. Different specialties.

Very inspiring - a great primer for organic and urban gardening!

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!)

beginners delight

I purchased 2 of these books. One was for myself, I'm in my second year with a garden, and my friend who is interested in gardening, but didn't know where to start. It's easy to read and understand. The great pictures and quirky approach make is all seem like such a fun hobby. We were especially interested in organic gardening and the book made so many thing so much clearer for me. It was very realistic, since most of the other gardening books I have overwhelm me. This book is so easy to find things in, I use it as a reference tool and have tabbed a few pages so I can refer back to them over and over. The book is young and fun. I highly recommend it.

Brings the fun into gardening....

I ran across 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.

Fantastic!!

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 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!

Not just for the new gardener

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.