This is a captivating little book about a woman's deep love and respect for the soil and its produce. A labor-saving book, it explains how much of the backache of gardening can be eliminated by an intelligent policy of mulching and the use of natural rather than artificial methods of cultivation. The author's devotion and care to growing things is entertaining to read, while her chief delight is in proving the experts wrong and testing short cuts - mulching portulaca, growing gardenias in shade, renewing strawberry beds without buying new plants, and, especially, mulching with soiled hay from the neighbors. The book delights while it instructs, offering useful information on all phases of vegetable and flower growing. Ruth Stout is the sister of Rex Stout, creator of the green thumb detective, Nero Wolfe.

How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening

Ruth Stout

Cornerstone Library

The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Richard Clemence

Gardening & Landscape Design

BANTAM BOOKS

Discusses the fundamentals of gardening, recommends a method of natural mulch gardening, and describes the author's gardening experiences

Fireside

The No-Work Garden Book

White Lion Publishers

Gardening Without Work

Devin-Adair Pub

Can you really have a productive garden without plowing, hoeing, weeding, cultivating, and all the other bothersome rituals that most gardeners suffer through every growing season? "Sure," says Ruth Stout, a prolific author and writer at 80 years young. The reason that Ruth can throw away her spade and hoe and do her gardening from a couch is a year-round mulch covering, 6 to 8 inches thick, that covers her garden like a blanket. Thousands of curious gardeners have visited her Redding, Connecticut garden, including university scientists and horticulture experts. The experts have been dazzled by the technique used by the queen of mulch! But the results of 41 years of gardening experience can't be denied. The Ruth Stout No-Work Gardening Book gives Ruth's unique advice on growing techniques and tells how she has escaped the bugaboos that haunt most gardeners. Her poison-free method of combating slugs and other insects, her scheme for growing tasty vegetables all year, her method of foiling both drought and frost -- these and many other growing secrets are revealed -- secrets that have brought this perky organic gardener season after season of growing pleasure. If you're tired of being a slave to your garden, yet still want to enjoy it without the bother of sprays, weeding, hoeing or other toilsome garden chores, The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Books has the information you need. It's completely tested gardening method, perfected during more than 40 years experience and reported in the pages of Organic Gardening magazine, eliminates gardening strain and toil, and does it organically with no dangerous chemical fertilizers or toxic sprays. Take it easy. Put nature to work in your garden.

The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year-Round Mulch Method

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rodale Press

2021 Reprint of the 1962 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. If You Would be Happy by Ruth Stout is what a self-help book should be: tart, down-to-earth, realistic and sound advice from a woman who lived well and wasn't shy about sharing ideas that worked. Having helped thousands of gardeners to achieve success the easy way (in How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back), Ruth Stout now has something for anyone pursuing the age-old search for happiness. She reveals in down-to-earth fashion how you can be happy in your daily life here and now. Are you plagued by a constant swarm of resentments, anxieties, irritations? Are you often bored, lonely, depressed, beset by a chronic sense of dissatisfaction? Do you despair of anything ever being any better unless everyone around you changes-perhaps, unless the whole world is reformed? Then read this book!!!!

If You Would be Happy

Self-Help

Happiness

Martino Fine Books

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