Toby Bost, Bob Polomski

Carolinas Gardener's Handbook

All You Need to Know to Plan, Plant & Maintain a Carolinas Garden

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Your one-stop source for all your questions about gardening in the Carolinas! Creating a flowerbed that draws admiring looks from passersby, complementing the look of your home with a beautiful landscape, and harvesting your very own homegrown edibles fresh from the garden does not happen by chance. No matter where in the Carolinas you live, you know that gardening success depends on knowing not only how but when to perform certain tasks. "Carolinas Gardener's Handbook" features: Chapters on edible gardening, including fruits, herbs, and vegetablesTen popular plant categories, from annuals to treesMonthly to-do calendars for each of the plant categoriesInformation on sustainable and environmentally sound gardening practicesA special section on growing roses in the Carolinas, a rose for every regionWith input from a number of seasoned gardeners from both North and South Carolina, we have compiled a complete garden reference to answer any question. Happy Gardening!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cool Springs Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 208mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9781591865391
• ISBN-10: 1591865395
• Artikelnr.: 35428942

Autorenporträt

Toby Bost is a native Tar Heel and has spent most of his life gardening in Piedmont clay soil. Bob Polomski, Ph.D., is widely known and respected for both his down-to-earth gardening expertise and knowledge of the latest technical information. As field faculty emeritus, Toby Bost is best known for his thirty-one years as a horticulturist and Extension Agent with the NC Cooperative Extension Service. For more than two decades, he recruited and certified more than 400 Master Gardeners in Durham and Forsyth counties, appearing frequently in the media as a gardening educator. He has been a garden writer for several newspapers and magazines, including Carolina Gardener and Our State . Many landscape professionals have attended the programs he developed to assist them with licensure in myriad trade associations. For six years, he was director of the Arboretum at Tanglewood Park. Toby continues to dedicate his time to helping gardeners conquer stubborn clay soils and grow healthy lawns and gardens as both a volunteer mentor and consultant. He is an adjunct instructor at the local community college in the horticulture department. He is the author of North Carolina Gardener’s Guide and co-author of Carolinas Gardener’s Guide; co-editor of The Successful Gardeners Guide: North Carolina by Blair Publishing; and co-author of Carolinas Gardener’s Handbook by Cool Springs Press. Toby and his wife, Becky, reside in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where they serve in leadership at their church. In his leisure time, Toby enjoys golf, fishing, and of course, the joy of gardening.