- ISBN13: 9780865715530
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand la… More >>
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)Good information. Easy to read. Glad I purchased this book
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is full of good gardening information. However its hard to use it. The binding came apart 3 days after I got the book
Rating: 2 / 5
This very informative book is easy to read. I can’t wait to put Mr. Solomon’s years of experience to practice!
Rating: 5 / 5
I had very high hopes for this book. My family has started the path to self sufficiency and we were all looking forward to reading the wonderful information touted by some of the reviewers on Amazon. However, the author is condescending and pompous. He seems more interested in showing others how smart he is than writing a meaningful book. He constantly treats the reader like he/she is an idiot, not capable of intelligent, independent thought. Perhaps he has some good information. I don’t know. Every time I pick the book up to read, he starts a paragraph with a condescending remark and I put it away. Horrible, horrible book. Run. There are much better books out there. If there were a zero star option, I would have chosen it.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is overall a fair to good gardening manual, and it presents a different viewpoint, which makes you think.
But….., it’s not a survival type gardening manual, so I think that its title is not accurate.
Rating: 3 / 5