Don't Throw In the Trowel

Vegetable Gardening Month by Month

Rosefiend Cordell

$25.95 $23.75

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Rosefiend Publishing.
25 June 2020

Plant pathology & diseases; Gardening: plants; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Organic gardening; Practical interests (Children's&YA)

Series: Easy-Growing Gardening

At last, help for home food gardeners. The simple, month-by-month layout of Don't Throw in the Trowel will help gardeners grow a bounty of vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Grow luscious tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, melons, and more, and enjoy all the fresh produce (and give the surplus to family and friends) that your garden grows using these easy tips. Don't Throw in the Trowel: A Month-by-Month Vegetable Gardening Guide is a fun read for every locavore who wants to cart tomatoes out of the garden by the wagonful.

Even if you've never been a farmer or a gardener before, this vegetable gardening book covers everything you need to know to get started. Here you can find specific information about starting seeds, transplanting, mulching, organic fertilizers, dealing with pest and disease problems, compost, and of course, information about different vegetables and helpful advice on how to grow them. You can also find information about square foot gardening, beneficial insects (and insect pests), easy ways to keep weeds down, and ways to extent the growing season into the winter months using cold frames and floating row covers.

What's more, the methods used in this book are those to save time (and your poor back and joints). Gardening can hurt sometimes - as the author can attest after having been felled by a bad back during her horticulturing days. This book is full of ways to keep you from ending up the way she did. Many organic methods actually help make gardening easier. For instance, putting down a thick layer of mulch early in the year helps you keep weeds down, reduce watering, add organic matter to the soil, and keep the plants cool in the summer heat. Grow heirloom vegetables for a reliable, colorful crop - and you can keep using the seeds from these plants years after year.

Don't Throw In the Trowel! guides the Midwest gardener, month by month, through the many gardening tasks that need to be done. This book helps you be more effective, plots out your month-by-month to-do list, and keeps you up to speed.

Melinda R. Cordell has worked in horticulture half her life, including a stint as city horticulturist in St. Joseph, Missouri.

By: Rosefiend Cordell
Imprint: Rosefiend Publishing.
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9781953196033
ISBN 10: 1953196039
Series: Easy-Growing Gardening
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 25 June 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rosefiend Cordell (aka Melinda R. Cordell) has been a municipal horticulturist, and has worked as a greenhouse manager, a perennials czar, a landscaper laborer, and a landscape designer through her career, and she ran a public rose garden with over 300 roses (mostly antique roses). Now she writes books (it's easier on the back) about what she's learned over the years in gardening. The maple that she's posing with in her author photo is one she planted in the parks system in the late 1990s. Good times! Rosefiend Cordell is her gardening book pen name; she writes epic fantasy with dragons under her real name (you can read those as well, hint hint).

Reviews for Don't Throw In the Trowel: Vegetable Gardening Month by Month

I can't recommend this book enough. Other gardening books are intimidating, but this one is practical and often times pretty funny. -- Rachel, 5 stars Loved her style-almost felt like having her right here chatting with me or in a very small, friendly classroom - a quick & easy read. -- MajB, 5 stars I should probably be named Agent Orange for my luck in growing plants. That being said, Rosefiend Cordell makes it sound like it might be possible for me to have a successful garden! Her writing style is approachable and understandable. Her division of labor in a month by month way is very helpful. -- GG, 5 stars I have several of Ms. Cordell's books on gardening and I have found all of them to have good how-to's and advice for the absolute beginner (never gardened before) and the experienced (long-term) gardener. She advises on every aspect of gardening (also on lawns and house plants in some of them). She deals with pests (bugs and four-legged). improving your soil, which varieties do better in warmer and in cooler climates. How to plant and transplant, which varieties need to be sowed as seed directly into the garden as they don't tolerate transplanting and which ones can be transplanted from starter beds or pots without a problem. How to handle too much rain or too little. Gradually I'm getting the whole set. If you are interested in gardening it would be to your advantage to get as many of her books as possible. -- drp6149, 5 stars