Gardening month by month

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MARTHA STEWART'S GARDENING Martha Stewart has been gardening since she was three years old, when she worked at her father's side in Nutley, New Jersey. In a crowded but orderly backyard plot, flowers and vegetable beds were tended every day, prizewinning roses, tomatoes, and peaches were grown, and Martha made her first mistakes and had her first successes. Here were the practice grounds for her own garden, the six-acre "place in the country" documented in this book. Located in Zone 6, in Westport, Connecticut, this property has for twenty years been the focus of Martha's intense interest in serious gardening. The basic tenets of landscape design, seed propagation, and cultivation were learned, absorbed, and used to transform neglected onion fields into a personal, evocative, colorful, and useful garden of great charm and hidden delights. While the garden was growing, Martha kept a journal, noting the mix of grass seed that made the sturdiest path, the fifteen varieties of basil... Tovább

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MARTHA STEWART'S GARDENING Martha Stewart has been gardening since she was three years old, when she worked at her father's side in Nutley, New Jersey. In a crowded but orderly backyard plot, flowers and vegetable beds were tended every day, prizewinning roses, tomatoes, and peaches were grown, and Martha made her first mistakes and had her first successes. Here were the practice grounds for her own garden, the six-acre "place in the country" documented in this book. Located in Zone 6, in Westport, Connecticut, this property has for twenty years been the focus of Martha's intense interest in serious gardening. The basic tenets of landscape design, seed propagation, and cultivation were learned, absorbed, and used to transform neglected onion fields into a personal, evocative, colorful, and useful garden of great charm and hidden delights. While the garden was growing, Martha kept a journal, noting the mix of grass seed that made the sturdiest path, the fifteen varieties of basil that would grow in the herb garden, the mold that grew under the buckwheat-hull mulch, the name of the oldfashioned climbing rose that best covered the chicken house, the tree that gave the most flavorful apples for baking. From that journal grew this book, filled with detailed information on growing beautiful and unusual perennials, Martha's idiosyncratic methods of planting and transplanting, and her step-bystep instructions for establishing a garden plan, improving the soil, choosing cultivars, and maintaining a productive garden. (Continued on back flap)
(Continued from front flap) It is a gardener's tale, informed bypassionate intelligence, and by experience. Its lessons can be applied to any garden, by anyone who ever dreams of planting a tree, sowing a seed, or plucking a rose from a blossom-laden bush. martha stewart is the author of eight best-selling books-Entertaining, Hoys d'Oeuvres, Pies and Tarts, Quick Cook, Quick Cook Menus, Weddings, The Wedding Planner; and Christmas- and four "Secrets of Entertaining" videos. She is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine Martha Stewart Living and a consultant to the K mart Corporation. Mrs. Stewart lives in Connecticut and New York, and is presently creating a new rose garden on Long Island. elizabeth zeschin's photographs have appeared in HG and many other publications. Ms. Zeschin has received two New York Art Director's Awards of Merit. * gael towey, former creative director of Clarkson Potter and art director of HG, is now art director of Martha Stewart Living. Photographs copyright © I99I by Elizabeth Zeschin Jacket design by Gael Towey Vissza