Tag: Plants
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BR299) “Master Gardener Manual” Book Review
Master Gardener Manual by PennState Extension. 4/5 rating. 743 pages. Book #15 of 2023. Read May 8, 2023. This was the accompanying textbook for my Master Gardener’s class in Vermont. The amount of information in this book is absolutely overwhelming. It is a true guidebook with information about a wide-array of topics about gardening: from…
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BR291) “The Thrifty Gardener” Book Review
The Thrifter Gardener: How to Create a Stylish Garden for Next to Nothing by Alys Fowler. 4/5 rating. 190 pages. Book #7 of 2023. Read March 5, 2023. This book is the perfect compendium to my Master Gardeners class I’m taking right now! Alys does a great job of bringing together general garden knowledge, specific…
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BR280) “The Soil Will Save Us” Book Review
The Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson. 4/5 rating. 234 pages. Book #47 of 2022. Read December 14, 2022. This was a fascinating (no, but really) book about the importance of soil to the world’s future. Soil is one of those things that we all inherently know is important for farming and food, but…
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BR206) “Brilliant Green” Book Review
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola. 2/5 rating. 170 pages. Book #42 of 2021. Read May 7, 2021. This book was mostly a diatribe against science’s unwillingness to take plants as anything but low beings. The authors do a great job of showing the incredible…