The Complete Kitchen Garden: The Art of Designing and Planting an Edible Garden

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Summary: a practical resource and inspiration
Review: I appreciated this book not only for its inspirational value, but also for the practical ideas in the form of lists, suggestions, and many ideas as well as beautiful pictures to illustrate and motivate. I have put many of these ideas into practice in my small lot, and the effect has been tremendous. Combined with practical knowledge and common sense, this book brings out the artist in all of us.

Rating:
Summary: a practical resource and inspiration
Review: This book is ideal for the coffee table but, as an informative book, it doesn't make the cut. The photographs are beautiful but the writing style lacks the punch necessary for how-to books and the reading is made more difficult by the injection of examples of different "kitchen gardens" in the midst of the chapters. Also, the gardens discussed are not such as could be duplicated by the average gardener, who does not have several acres of land to turn into a landscaped masterpiece.

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Summary: Coffee Table Book
Review: This book is ideal for the coffee table but, as an informative book, it doesn't make the cut. The photographs are beautiful but the writing style lacks the punch necessary for how-to books and the reading is made more difficult by the injection of examples of different "kitchen gardens" in the midst of the chapters. Also, the gardens discussed are not such as could be duplicated by the average gardener, who does not have several acres of land to turn into a landscaped masterpiece.