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Review by Pat Regel
The last book will help you develop strategies that will give you a beautiful garden with less work. Gardening doesn't have to be time consuming -- there are shortcuts. This winter, plan to spend less time doing spring and summer chores while still creating the impressive garden you want. This reviewer highly recommends The 20-Minute Gardener: The Garden of Your Dreams Without Giving up Your Life, Your Job, or Your Sanity, by Tom Christopher and Marty Asher (Random House, $19.95, 0679448144). Here is a user-friendly guide for beginners and experienced gardeners, that is based on low-maintenance organic techniques that put the fun back into gardening and money back into your wallet.
The book covers everything from choosing the right plants, shopping for them, designing your garden, and getting rid of insect pests -- all in 20 minutes a day. Also included are easy-to-follow, inexpensive, 20-minute projects and tips. The book is packed with humor: "Nursery catalogues, while a great pleasure to read, have no relevance to gardening, unless they are used as mulch. The magnificent plants described in and pictured on their pages have never actually appeared on this planet."
And wisdom:
"You shall never buy more than three of any plant -- four is the beginning of monotony and smacks of the unimaginative excess that makes traditional gardening such hard work."
Gardeners will be entertained and informed in this commonsense approach to practical, no-fuss gardening.
Pat Regel writes and makes plans for her own spring garden in Nashville.
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