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

by Ruth Stout

A mulch-based approach to gardening

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A mulch-based approach to gardening

Ruth Stout’s gardening method is built around maintaining a thick, year-round mulch layer, which the book presents as a way to reduce routine soil preparation and weeding. The guidance ranges from growing vegetables through the year to addressing slugs and other insects without poison, as well as managing drought and frost. The publisher description frames these techniques through Stout’s decades of gardening experience and organic practice. Its practical subject is the relationship between mulch, seasonal growing, and the work involved in maintaining a garden.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Gardeners interested in mulch-based growing methods
  • Readers seeking organic approaches to pest and garden care
  • Home growers looking for guidance on year-round vegetables and seasonal challenges

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MulchingOrganic gardeningVegetable growingPest managementSeasonal gardening

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Book overview

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.
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