November 2008 Books
The Green Gardener’s Guide
The Green Gardener’s Guide
Simple, Significant Actions to Protect and Preserve Our Planet
A Chinese proverb says, “If man cheats the earth, the earth will cheat man.”
Those who work the soil with their hands are mightily connected to the heart of our planet, directly linked in a way that those of us who rely on markets to supply our produce can only imagine. A gardener instinctively cares for the earth, and The Green Gardener's Guide offers page after page of insights into how we can change our gardening practices to protect and preserve our natural resources and thereby increase the bounty of nature available to us.
Minor modifications in approaches to caring for flowers, lawns and food plants, Lamp'l assures us, can create major positive environmental changes. For instance, he points out, American gardeners could save a minimum of 700 billion gallons of water each year by watering early in the morning instead of in the heat of the day. Capturing roof runoff can mean life for thirsty plants in times of drought. And that's only the beginning. Add in the dramatic drop in heating and cooling costs when trees are planted for shade and windbreak – not to mention the concomitant huge cut in CO 2 emissions – and we're off on a wild learning spree with immensely practical applications.
The Green Gardener's Guide offers a plethora of useful tips to help us garden more successfully and become better stewards of our environment, not only in our own yards but in the greater community as well. Each chapter enumerates simple, significant actions with specific steps we can take to make a real difference, along with interesting facts on the impact of man's carelessness with natural resources and specific changes that have already demonstrated a positive impact.
“There are millions of gardening and landscape enthusiasts around the world,” says Lamp'l. “The powerful impact we can have on the environment through just a handful of simple acts is astonishing.”
He ought to know. Widely recognized as joe gardener ® , this master gardener and certified landscape professional hosts two TV gardening shows and writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column titled The Gardener Within .
If you have a green thumb or are attempting to develop one, you will find this guide a valuable aid. Even if gardening is ‘not your thing,' you'll learn about lifestyle changes you can make that will add up to big savings all around.
—Chiwah
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