It's all here---step-by-step guidance for gardening success in Michigan's varying soil types and often difficult climate. Veteran garden writer Jerry Minnich presents detailed directions and practical tips for growing vegetables, herbs, flowers, landscaping plants, and house plants, as well as dependable advice on hundreds of garden operations.
Minnich begins where gardening begins---in the soil---as he tells how to build a healthy and productive soil, and how to solve soil problems. In subsequent chapters he reveals composting and mulching techniques, and what to do when the weather is less than congenial for gardens. Minnich describes more than sixty Michigan vegetables, tells how to grow them, and lists recommended varieties for each. There are also chapters on growing fruits, berries, and nuts, and on food storage. Minnich devotes a chapter to growing annuals and perennials, another on lawns, trees, and ornamental woody plants. He tells how to deal with insect and animal pests without using harmful chemicals, and he includes a major section on houseplants.
Throughout, Minnich approaches the subject with experience, wit, and style. Readers will learn how to deal with weeds in the lawn, how to surf the landscape for com-posting materials, and how to grow mulch at home. He explains intercropping, companion planting, seed saving, cover cropping, strip composting and other techniques. He tells how to raise unusual crops such as tomatillos and radicchio, as well as the standard favorites. He explains how the science of phenology can help the gardener, how to take a soil test, how to use earthworms to turn household wastes in to compost, and how to attract birds and toads to the garden. And he lists more than a thousand varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and ornamentals that can be trusted to grow in the Michigan climate.
The Michigan Gardening Guide is the one backyard guide that Michigan gardeners can trust. It is a tool as indispensable as the hoe and the shovel.
Jerry Minnich has written about gardening for more than twenty years and has been commended with a Certificate of Merit by the Garden Writers Association of America. His interest in gardening began when he joined the staff of Organic Gardening in the 1950s.

The Michigan Gardening Guide

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Minnich, Jerry

Gardening & Landscape Design

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL

A complete gardening guide for the beginner or for the more experienced gardener for use as a reference. Covers building healthy soil, making compost and mulch, weather difficulties, vegetables, herbs, flowering plants, trees, and houseplants; and handling diseases and pests organically. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Ohio Gardening Guide

Ohio University Press

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The Rodale Guide to Composting

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rodale Pr

Discusses the quality of American food, explains how to select the most nutritious varieties of fruits and vegetables, and offers advice on their cultivation, harvest, and storage

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The Wisconsin garden guide

Stanton & Lee

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The Wisconsin Garden Guide

Heartland Pr

Jerry Minnich's Guide to Eating Well in Wisconsin

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Prairie Oak Pr

For the past 35 years, thousands of Wisconsin gardeners have relied on the The Wisconsin Garden Guide. Now for the first time in full color, this revised and updated guide should be your one dependable reference to gardening the Badger State. Whether your garden is in a small backyard or on several acres, you will find just what you need to know to be a successful gardener in Wisconsin s challenging climate. Jerry Minnich is the Wisconsin garden expert. With more than forty years of gardening experience, and as the author of countless books and articles on gardening, there is no better source of information.

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Wisconsin With Kids

Visser, Kristin

United States

Eating Well in Wisconsin

Reference

Trails Books

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The Michigan Gardening Guide

Ohio Gardening Guide

The Rodale Guide to Composting

Gardening for Maximum Nutrition

The Wisconsin garden guide

The Wisconsin Garden Guide

Jerry Minnich's Guide to Eating Well in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Garden Guide

Wisconsin With Kids

Eating Well in Wisconsin