The 5-Minute Gardener: How to Plan, Create, and Sustain a Low-Maintenance Garden

by Brenda Little

With a little preparation and a few minutes a day, new or experienced gardeners can have a colorful flower garden and a bounty of vegetables with this fun and handy manual. Readers interested in a successful flower garden learn how to choose low-care perennials and annuals as well as develop blueprints, analyze the soil, and choose the right equipment. A productive vegetable garden can be achieved with low-care, high-yield vegetables as well as efficiently mulching and fertilizing the soil and the effective control of pests and disease. Useful, easy-to-follow information on the basics of efficient gardening ensures that even the most harried gardener gets their planting off to the right start.

Genres: Gardening

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Kriste · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good suggestions on how to simplify gardening. A lot of it I already knew, but it would make a handy reference book, particularly for planting and diagnosing/treating plant insects and disease.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some really nice charts and illustrations in this book, including plot plans, and how many veggies would be needed for a family of four.

[sves yvonne]

made gardening simple and lots of simple tricks about gardening and then good index for vegetable and flower gardens. also takes pressure off of being a "perfect" gardening. provides good choices for gardeners who are afraid of failure. also small compact and short to read