The Vermont Gardener's Companion: An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Green Mountain State

by Henry Homeyer

Overview

The Vermont Gardener's Companion tells how to get the most out of Vermont's short gardening season and details how readers can use organic methods to improve soil, deal with diseases and pests, and get better results with their plants in a state where "winter temperatures plunge far below zero and rocks left by the glaciers pop out of the ground each spring like bread from hyperactive toasters." With good humor and a natural teacher's gift for explanations, Henry Homeyer makes gardening fun and readily accessible to all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493022113
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2016
Series:	Gardening Series
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	607,160
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Henry Homeyer is a landscape designer and University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Master Gardener with more than fifty years of experience in organic gardening. He is a freelance writer whose weekly gardening column is carried by several New England newspapers. He served as an associate editor of People, Places and Plants magazine for 10 years and is the author of 4 gardening books, including Notes from the Garden (University Press of New England), selected as one of the best gardening books of 2002 by the Christian Science Monitor. Henry is a regular gardening commentator on Vermont Public and has a short weekly interview during Morning Edition on New Hampshire Public Radio. He regularly speaks to garden clubs, libraries and Master Gardener groups.

Table of Contents

Introduction viii

Finn Foundations

1 Soils 2

2 Growing Seasons 22

3 Water 40

Green Things

4 Vegetable Gardening 54

5 Eating from the Garden All Year 78

6 Annual Flowers 88

7 Perennial Flowers and Bulbs 108

8 Trees and Shrubs 126

9 Lawns 144

10 Invasive Plants 158

Garden Solutions

11 Tools of the Trade 172

12 Coping with Pests and Diseases 183

13 Vermont Gardens to Learn From 202

14 Resources for the Vermont Gardener 212

Glossary 223

Index 229

About the Author 236