The Garden Primer

The Garden Primer - Barbara Damrosch

The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised:

• "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods." ?Chicago Tribune
• "Best of the crop." ?House Beautiful
• "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose." ?The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer
• "Covers just about everything you could think of and then some." ? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "An extraordinarily comprehensive guide." ? The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
• "Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the ground."?The Toronto Star

Newly revised, front-to-back. Workman Publishing. 820 pages.

Barbara Damrosch is one of the nation's most respected garden experts and writers. She is also the author of Theme Gardens, and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post called "A Cook?s Garden." She appeared as a regular correspondent on the PBS series The Victory Garden, and co-hosted the series Gardening Naturally for The Learning Channel. She is the co-owner, with her husband, Eliot Coleman, of Four Season Farm, an experimental market garden in Harborside, Maine, that is a nationally recognized model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.