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Weedless Gardening
Conventional wisdom says to garden from the bottom up, turning over the soil every spring until your back aches. Ironically, this does such a good job aerating that gardeners spend the rest of the season pulling weeds and replacing the suddenly energized (and easily used up) nutrients. Mother nature, on the other hand, gardens from the top down-layering undisturbed soil wi...more
Paperback, 200 pages
Published
January 28th 2001
by Workman Publishing
(first published 2001)
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Although the concept is interesting, I was pretty disappointed that Reich didn't go into very much detail in this book. My husband asked me several questions while I was reading it that didn't get answered: How do you actually plant seeds, especially seeds like radishes and lettuce that are microscopic, using this technique? How often do you have to reapply newspapers? In addition, I felt that Reich kept mentioning that you might have to do some "maintenance weeding" at several differe...more
An interesting and fast read. Mr. Reich's approach seems logical from a scientific viewpoint. I will apply his gardening methods this spring because I've been loosening soil in plant beds for years followed by an application of shredded bark - the result of which has been anything but weedless. Disturbing the soil surface as little as is practical, addition of only 1" of organic mulch per year, and drip irrigation delivered only to plants that are welcome in the garden are the three factors...more
I came across Lee Reich's book a few years ago in our local library. Since I was knee deep in weeds at the time the title intrigued me. At the time it was mid summer and my garden, as usual, was an example of spring time work gone awry.
Each year, I dilligently tilled and rowed my garden as my father and his father had done, arranged the sprinklers, planted the best plants, staked the beans, caged the tomatoes and planned how this year I was going to have a TV worthy garden. Then May...more
Each year, I dilligently tilled and rowed my garden as my father and his father had done, arranged the sprinklers, planted the best plants, staked the beans, caged the tomatoes and planned how this year I was going to have a TV worthy garden. Then May...more
I didn't actually read this book from cover to cover. I read the first few chapters that introduce his theory and the chapter on vegetable gardening because that was what I was especially interested in. We are going to do some version of weedless or less weeds gardening this year, so this was a good read. I guess I don't totally trust his approach to gardening, so I don't dare take the whole leap. It would be a fun experiment some year though.
I'm eager to try the author's methods of using a kill mulch (among others) to get a good start to the garden. The book is very short and simple, but so are his recommendations.
interesting, I may try some version in the spring. i'll keep looking for a book on workless gardening, though!
Good overview of weedless techniques, I'm not sure it would work for me... but it will be fun to try.
Highly recommend this for all gardeners out there. We've been doing it for years to great effect.
Adrienne828
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So far it's really good. Still got a quarter of it to go
Useful! I like the concept
Five stars for now. Ask me again after implementation.
Very clear and easy to read, with a lot of good tips. But flawed because the system isn't really scalable about the backyard level, and half of the book is devoted to basic gardening information everyone knows. A good book for a beginning urban gardener to buy or for everyone else to check out of the library. Visit my blog to read the highlights of weedless gardening.
SO GOOD.
For a novice gardener, this book helps explain where weeds come from and how to avoid having them. It's really common sense stuff a lot of people know, but I did not! Also, it's the basics of composting and soil quality in making yourself a weedless garden, so it's great to get those basics under your belt as well.
I wish everyone read this book before buying posion to get rid of weeds!
For a novice gardener, this book helps explain where weeds come from and how to avoid having them. It's really common sense stuff a lot of people know, but I did not! Also, it's the basics of composting and soil quality in making yourself a weedless garden, so it's great to get those basics under your belt as well.
I wish everyone read this book before buying posion to get rid of weeds!
This is for us! Now to implement ...
This book is short and to the point. Definitely worth reading and I plan on incorporating some of Reich's ideas in my yard. You could really just read the first half of the book and skip the second half as a lot of the material is either pretty basic (for example, how to plant a tree), or covers very specific situations such as growing a meadow.
This book was very interesting, but I still struggle with weeds! I got some great ideas from this book about suppressing weeds.
For those of you with backyards it is an interesting approach to gardening. I am going to try it this spring!
if one did this, one could save lots of time for reading.
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