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Green Gardener's Guide

Simple, Significant Actions to Protect & Preserve Our Planet

by Joe Lamp'l

Paperback

Price: $16.95

Presenting the best gardening book to come along in decades. If you are concerned with the health of our planet, this book has hundreds of pages of information on how you can do your part to conserve water, create a sustainable garden and simply take care of YOUR piece of the planet. This is not an organic gardening book... It is a book that shows you how to be successful in your garden and actions you can take to preserve our home.

Read what people are saying about
The Green Gardener's Guide:

Planet Green at Discovery.com
"The Green Gardener's Guide features simple yet significant actions gardeners can take to protect the environment. Packed with practical advice (such as mulching to reduce runoff, and using beneficial insects to control pests) as well as facts and statistics on how much of an impact gardening green can have, The Green Gardener's Guide is a trove of ways you can create a more sustainable garden."

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"This little book gives plenty of advice and ideas on how to make sure we are gardening in a more earth-friendly manner. Things you might not think about, such as shutting the hose off and not letting it run or mulching leaves and not sending them to a landfill can have a huge impact on the environment. The author, who is a garden writer and host of the PBS series "GardenSmart," has written a reader-friendly book that is sure to make you think about what you are doing in the garden and how."

Orlando Sentinel
"There's more to being a good, green gardener than obeying local watering restrictions and using fewer pesticides… Lamp'l delves much deeper in describing strategies for using less energy and protecting our ecosystem…If saving the environment sounds like an intimidating proposition, Lamp'l suggests starting with baby steps... In the first chapter, he lists 10 simple actions to give you a fast start."

Creations Magazine
"Using a straightforward, conversational approach, television personality "Joe Gardener" challenges green thumbs to become environmental stewards by creating a more sustainable garden. Outlining simple, yet significant actions that can be taken to protect and conserve resources, he shows how altering a few gardening habits can make a global impact...In a final, passionate chapter, Lamp'l suggests ways to take this cause "over the fence" and into the larger community. Convincing and motivational."

The first green book from Cool Springs Press, written by popular television personality, Joe Lamp'l, also known as joe gardener®. With a platform that encourages earth-friendly gardening, Joe will offer tips that will save water, conserve resources, promote healthy and safe plant growth, and eliminate damage to the earth. The Green Gardener's Guide is enjoying a wonderful reception from gardeners and non-gardeners alike. This is a book relevant to our time, and a viable addition to every library.

• EAN (ISBN-13): 9781591864264
• ISBN: 1591864267
• Publisher: Cool Springs Press
• Pub. Date: February 28, 2008
• 368 pages
• 6.00 x 9.00 in.