Tips for the Lazy Gardener

Linda Tilger encourages you to embrace the lazy gardener within to work smarter and relax harder. With hundreds of time-saving techniques, Tips for the Lazy Gardener shows you how easy it can be to grow hearty vegetables and fragrant herbs. Covering everything from planning an efficient garden to effective shortcuts for harvesting your crops, Tilga's expert suggestions are designed to mitigate chore time while increasing your gardening pleasure. Enjoy a thriving and abundant garden - without all the back-breaking, energy-sapping work.  Linda Tilgner (1937-1989) was an avid Vermont gardener, second grade teacher, and mother of two sons.
Over 200,000 in print!

What's a lazy gardener?

Anyone who enjoys the pleasures of gardening but doesn't want to be chained to their garden -- in other words, all of us!

In this delightful but oh-so-practical book, Linda Tilgner offers hundreds of timesaving tips and routines to produce better vegetables and herbs with less work and more pleasure. You'll find ideas and instructions for planning gardens, building soil, sowing and transplanting, beating weeds and pests, and harvesting -- all designed to reduce maintenance and make gardening more leisurely and enjoyable.

Acknowledgments
Getting Started
Build the Soil
When the North Wind Blows
Dig In!
Out, Weeds!
Pests and Pestilence
Harvesting and More
Index