David Maier recounts a lifetime's experience as a backyard gardener - with all the myth-busting, tradition-breaking, truths about growing vegetables, fruits and flowers successfully, and battling off the prevailing scourge of insects and disease.
Having studied landscape design at the New York Botanical Garden, and co-chairing his New England-based garden club, and cultivating his ever-expanding backyard garden for over forty years, gives David a knowledge of things that bloom, though his passion are for things which are edible.
Half-a-century as a teacher of writing and literature, he has used the winter days of his retirement for his own writing. Green-thumbers will enjoy his witty advice and insights, along with some prized recipes for preparing those garden delights.
A great read for anyone interested in gardening, lives with a gardener, or has just seen a garden. Funny, light-hearted, and packed with hints and secrets of a master.
Already in its second printing!