• Age: 11
• Grade: 6

Full of seasonally relevant, practical information, this bestselling weekly gardening guide can be picked up any day of the year for timely advice on how to create a beautiful, healthy ornamental landscape and food garden. Full of helpful tips and recipes, this highly illustrated book covers everything from soil building to pruning to four-season food growing and seed saving, interspersed with recipes, poetry and humour.

 

Organic gardening expert Carolyn Herriot digs up:

- four secrets of successful soil building

- methods to maintain a healthy green lawn

- non-toxic solutions to common garden problems

- pruning, plant propagation and more!

Carolyn Herriot is the author of the bestselling A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food and, most recently, The Zero-Mile Diet Cookbook: Seasonal Recipes for Delicious Homegrown Food. She is much in demand as a speaker and workshop leader on organic gardening in the Pacific Northwest, with regular columns in BC Living and
Common Ground magazines. Carolyn grows her certified-organic seed business, Seeds of Victoria, at the Garden Path Centre for Organic Gardening in Victoria, BC.

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"A wealth of information . . . compiled by somebody who knows her stuff."

Des Kennedy, author

A Year on the Garden Path: A 52-Week Organic Gardening Guide

First published in 2005, this revised second edition is a week-by-week gardening guide that started as an email newsletter. Herriot provides practical information for developing and maintaining a year-round garden with guidance on soil building, pruning, seed saving and planting, and harvesting produce. The author describes the importance of feeding the soil to nurture the myriad microorganisms that dwell in it. Gardeners at all levels can create healthy produce without resorting to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The inclusion of drawings, recipes, poetry and an easy-to-follow format make this an excellent reference resource for any school that is planning to start a garden.

Herriot also wrote The ZeroMile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food.