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Tips from Old Gardeners
Duncan Crosbie
ISBN: 9781573242196
Book (Hardcover)
Conari Press
$11.00
5 7/8 x 6 5/8
96 pages
March 15, 2005

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As research has begun to show, a surprising amount of gardening folklore is actually true.

* An apple a day helps keep the doctor away -- apples contain pectin, which has germicidal qualities.

* Roses love old banana skins near their roots -- the skins contain phosphates, calcium, magnesium, etc., in which many soils are deficient.

* If you cut yourself badly, wrap yarrow (achillea) round the wound -- yarrow contains blood-clotting chemicals, which stop bleeding.



Tips from the Old Gardeners offers hundreds of good ideas (and a few not-so-good ideas) about what to plant and where to plant it, which plants and animals will ward off garden pests, and which plants can serve as homeopathic remedies, plus quite a few belly laughs for contemporary gardeners -- "If you want to know when to sow, take your trousers off and sit on the ground!"

Good old advice from good old green thumbs.

SJG - North America