My Thoughts Exactly: "The Dirt on Gardening"

My Thoughts Exactly” features a selection of Tom Yoder’s popular ‘The Dirt on Gardening’ columns. The weekly columns were originally published in the Goshen News, Goshen Indiana. Their folksy wisdom soon gained a wide readership. Yoder's writing style combines a gardener’s trip down memory lane as well as addressing present day questions and concerns submitted by his readers. Now 80 years of age, Yoder grew up on a small farm in northern Indiana with large ‘truck patch’ size gardens and outcrops of perennial and annual beds that included all of the old standbys. As an award winning portrait artist, Yoder has an eye for landscape design and beauty that includes perennial and annual beds to ornamental plants and pond design. Each home he owned became a challenge to create something unique and different, the creed of every gardener. While nearing retirement age for most people, Tom was asked to become garden center manager at a local business. His charm and expertise eventually tripled the sales volume. From the novice to the seasoned and advanced gardener this enduring book of tips, advice and memories is essential reading.