'The Green Gardener's Guide' Makes Sustainability an Easy Row to Hoe

New title by nationally-recognized expert joe gardener® gives readers simple action steps to positively impact the planet

No other people have a greater connection to the Earth than the gardeners who plant it, tend it and reap its bounty. Now The Green Gardener's Guide: Simple, Significant Actions to Protect and Preserve our Planet equips you with common-sense tools to protect the very resources that nurture us all.

People know why they need to respect the environment when gardening. This is the first book that tells them how to make it happen

The Green Gardener's Guide' offers a straightforward approach to creating a more sustainable garden—be that a front lawn or a vegetable row. We take people step by step and show them how simple green gardening can be.

Written by Joe Lamp'l the host of GardenSMART on PBS, Fresh from the Garden on the DIY Network and is a sought-after speaker around the country. He is a Master Gardener, Certified Landscape Professional and the founder of The joe gardener Company.

Green Gardener's Guide provides hundreds of tips on conserving resources, promoting healthy and safe plant growth, and preventing unnecessary damage to the earth. Lamp'l offers easy-to-follow steps that help readers become more environmentally conscious and lessen their environmental footprint.

Numerous cause-and-effect scenarios of the environmental consequences of seemingly minor lifestyle changes are offered. For instance, if U.S. gardeners collectively watered early in the morning instead of in the midday sun, the nation would save at least 700 billion gallons of water annually. If gardeners planted trees for shade and windbreak, national heating and cooling costs would drop by as much as 40 percent.

"The love of nature is central to gardening," says Lamp'l. "Isn't it time we gardeners started acting on it?"

Norma Lehmeierhartie

"This book covers all aspects of green gardening. Joe Lamp'l explains why eco-friendly gardening is crucial in making a difference for the environment and that your actions count. For example, Lamp'l discusses how our water drinking supply gets contaminated with the use of pesticides in the garden. He details ways in which to conserve water in the garden. The book will teach you how to compost and make "liquid gold" to fertilize your plants naturally. Composting is not only fun to do (it's cool to watch coffee grinds and vegetable scraps mixed with leaves turn into dirt), it's good for the environment and for the health of your plants."