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    The Organic Home Garden

    By Patrick Lima

    3.5/5

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    In the Organic Home Garden, Patrick and John, take readers step-by-step through the engaging process of growing the best possible food - from spring's first spinach, asparagus and salad greens, through the summer abundance of tomatoes, cucumbers, melons and all, right into fall's harvest of squash, leeks, carrots and potatoes.

    Often, a small timely tip makes all the difference, and this dynamic team leaves nothing out. Whether you tend a small city yard, a full-size country garden or something in between, their instructive, easy to follow and often humorous advice will ensure you make the very best use of the space you have -- and you can't get any more local, seasonal and organic than food from your own yard.

    Combine this with John's unique and vibrant artistic paintings, and you have a book that stands out from the wall of glossy, manufactured gardening publications, making The Organic Home Garden a stand-alone, stand-out book sure to intrigue and capture gardeners, artists and customers who conduct their lives to a different rhythm.

    A perfect companion for Lorina Stephens' Stonehouse Cooks.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Rivers Publishing
    Release dateJun 10, 2011
    ISBN9780986642357
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    The Organic Home Garden
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    Patrick Lima

    Patrick is the author of seven gardening books previously published by Key Porter and Camden House, as well as owner, with his partner John Scanlan, of the well-known Bruce Peninsula oasis, Larkwhistle. With over 30 years of organic gardening experience, Patrick writes credibly and honestly, offering a step by step, no-nonsense approach for anyone interested in pursuing a greener, healthier lifestyle.

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    Reviews for The Organic Home Garden

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    • 4/5
      I grew up helping out in my parents’ large garden, and last year I finally attempted one of my own. Some things worked (delicious bush beans through September) and others didn’t (my poor eggplant and pepper starts never got above 4 inches tall). Reading The Organic Home Garden I now have some ideas as to why some of my plants failed, what I can do differently, and other great plants to try – I can hardly wait until July to start fennel! This book was written in a very accessible way by an author who, by trial and error, now has a magnificent looking and bountiful garden. The book is nicely broken down with similar plants forming their own chapter and takes you through seeding to harvest, with a few recipes at the end for your bounty. There were several pictures throughout the book; I wish these had been labeled better and been more plentiful. As a gardening novice I found this book to be very helpful, but a more experienced gardener might be looking for something more scientific or detailed.
    • 3/5
      This book was interesting and full of useful information. I've been gardening a long time and can't wait until Spring to try out some of the ideas in this book. I did find it very difficult to read with the formatting glitch and didn't like the fact that all the pictures were black & white and at the end of the book. I think I prefer my gardening books in a traditional "paper" format.
    • 4/5
      I have kept a small organic garden over the past three years and would like to expand it in the future. I was eager to see what this book would offer, especially as it was the first ebook that I won through the LT Early Reviewers program.To be honest, I felt a bit let down at first for two reasons. First, when I loaded into Apple's iBooks software, I had some formatting issues with special characters and title headings were smaller than the body text. But really these were small things, which I imagine that the publisher can easily fix (or, more likely, were my own damn fault as I likely did something wrong when transferring the file). Second, the first chapter was more of a history of how the author and his partner found the land for their garden and got started. While interesting, I wasn't as interested in a memoir as I was in a how-to guide.Fortunately, the chapters following the first were full of useful tips for growing just about anything. In hindsight, that first chapter really set the stage by demonstrating that the authors had learned quite a bit (and much of it the hard way). Between the memoir and the notes for each plant, it is clear that they know what they're doing. There are tips in here that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else and I'm eager to try them next year. It was also encouraging that they have managed to grow many plants successfully at Larkwhistle, which is relatively near me, that I wasn't sure could succeed in my climate zone.My only other quibble was that all the images were grouped together, without text, on the last pages of the ebook. I would have preferred it if they had been spread throughout the text.So the short of it is: the formatting needs a bit of work, but the content is gold.
    • 4/5
      I enjoy reading gardening books, particularly ones that focus on environmental or organic garden. This book is great in that it has a ton of useful information. It initially struck me as a gardening memoir (makes me think of the Bill Bryson books of his adventures). I appreciate those and it helped me to get interested in this book as well.I would definitely normally purchase this type of book in a non digital format as I want to easily search out pictures and topics. That being said I would highly recommend this book for any level of gardening knowledge. There is always something we haven't heard before.
    • 3/5
      I rarely review text books and I guess that this counts as a text book but here goes.First a quibble - like a lot of ebooks hitting my ereader of late this one had an irritating habit of replacing some punctuation marks with a set of odd symbols - most annoying and a major problem that publishers need to sort quickly. So annoying. They wouldn't let a cellulose book out of the door in this state and so they should not let an ebook out like it - get a grip. For a gardening book this is amazingly readable. The writer has a unique voice and manages to weave a narrative into what could be a dryish text. He covers all of the key crops and techniques with gusto and manages to impart his own enthusiasm for the tasks and crops at hand. There is some repetition but perhaps that is simply to drive home the key points. In some respects his own conditions - both soil and climate - dominate to one's annoyance but he does a great job overall. I'd recommend it to novices and gardeners wishing to become a little more organic. I feel that this could be a better ebook than it is with some well referenced diagrams and charts but I shall keep it as a reference text.
    • 4/5
      This was a very informative book. Even a non-gardener, like me, a total novice who tends to buy things in pots, and water them, and hope for the best, can come away from the book with a sense of how it could be done better. And thanks to the handy and thorough explanations of soil composition, insects, etc., the next gardening book I read may not sound as though it was written in Greek either. Most common vegetables and herbs are included here, along with a clear description of when to plant, what to do next, how to harvest, and even some recipes! Very thorough and highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      This book flows smoothly from introducing the reasons one ought to choose to take up food gardening, through his own history of gardening, and on to how to start a garden. The following chapters deal with soil amendments and fertilizers, pest control, and finally detailed accounts of how to grow specific groups of crops through a typical temperate garden season.Some creative syntax in the first couple of pages worried me that the author was more concerned about being writerly than helpful but then he hit his stride and the rest of the book is highly readable prose. He brings experience and wit to what could be a dry topic and communicates well his passion for gardening. The only quibble I have with the book worth mentioning is some inconsistency in prescribing sowing, transplanting, harvesting, etc. dates. Sometimes he uses phenology or counting from frost dates which are the most broadly applicable approaches. Other times he states more specific times that, to an unwary reader in a different zone, would not be appropriate. Also, the electronic edition I received was not formatted properly and some of the punctuation was replaced by distracting clusters of odd characters.I've been a gardener for over twenty years. Having committed to being fully organic three years ago I was pleased to receive an Early Reviewers copy of this book through Librarything. After so many years of reading about gardening, one would expect to have seen it all, but this book held a few surprises and some new information for me. It would be an excellent introduction to organic kitchen gardening for someone just starting on the path.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book, I am an organic gardener for years and I still found new and interesting information. The author describes a lot of common and new plants. Information about the plants history, how to plant and harvest, protect and store it and in the end recipes for eating the vegetables. Usable for beginners and experienced gardeners. Easy and fun to read, with nice photos and artistic drawings. I had the same problems like quilted kat with the E book version. But even with no problems I would prefer to own this as a real book , nicer to handle in the garden and kitchen.
    • 4/5
      The book itself was interesting and well written. It is written memoir-style around the author’s experiences at gardening, first in an urban setting, and then off-grid in the middle of nowhere. With amusing anecdotes and practical advice, it is a good guide to anyone who is attempting to scratch food out of the dirt.I had an E-Book version of the book. There was a weird glitch in the formatting that replaced every comma with a series of symbols. I tried to read the book as the original EPub on my computer, and then converted the file to Mobi and tried to read it on my Kindle, and the glitch was there in both formats. I even downloaded it several times on different computers to make sure it wasn’t just me. The glitch was annoying and interrupted the flow of reading and hopefully will be resolved in the final version.