I Garden: Urban Style Book Review

Down-to-Earth, practical, whimsical, and beautiful. If you like gardens, you need this book.

veg horticulture in cosmopolitan has enjoyed a atrocious and well-timed resurgence in this state for several geezerhood now . Growing at least some of your own food has always been a goodly , bionomical , and financially smart practice session . Unfortunately , in the past , grow intellectual nourishment has been equalize with farms or big area of kingdom for which to grow crops .

But , that was then and this is now .

You may have noticed that a big percentage of the universe have very little extra distance border their homes . Which does n’t exactly yell “ garden patch . ” But that has n’t stop the practical , the persistent , and the prompt gardener of the mankind like Michael Nolan .

I Garden : Urban Styleby Reggie Solomon and Michael Nolan is a down - to - earth and practical guide that somehow overstretch off exciting , too . With its fabulously friendly voice , this cheerleader of a book has so many fast and mythological estimate that I found there was no way to finish the ledger before I was heading down to the nursery and local computer hardware store .

The book has profile of other mythical gardening personalities that offer up their own pattern for grabs . And I have no trouble grabbing them . Nolan and Solomon not only discuss voguish gardening in urban space , but they extend solid horticulture advice that anyone with any size garden can use successfully .

From the practical such as figuring out your ground type , to the whimsical ; a water garden complete with goldfish — in a claw - foot bathtub ! You ’ll come up composting basics ( and you know how I dig that ) , container planting tips , and yes , even the kitchen swallow hole ( swear ) . The photos are beautiful and there ’s plenty of them .

If none of these reasons have moved you to click over to Amazon , they even made space for recipes for veggies that come straight from your garden to the kitchen . How does Sage in Browned Butter grab you ?

If you ’ve never originate a thing in your animation , I Garden : Urban Style will have you planting this weekend . If you ’re seasoned gullible quarter round , it ’ll inspire you to sample something newfangled . detect Michael Nolan atMy Earth Garden . If you are n’t already reading his blog , you should be .

I Garden : Urban Styleby Reggie Solomon & Michael NolanPaperback:160 pagesPublisher : Betterway Books ; ( December 30 , 2010)ISBN:978 - 1440305566

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