Tennessee & Kentucky Month-by-Month Gardening: What To Do Each Month To Have A Beautiful Garden All Year

by Judy Lowe

Overview

Never garden alone! The Month-By-Month series is the perfect companion to take the guesswork out of gardening. With this book, you’ll know what to do each month to have gardening success all year. Written by authors in your state, the information is tailored to the issues that affect your garden the most.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610589727
Publisher:	Cool Springs Press
Publication date:	01/15/2014
Series:	Month By Month Gardening
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	775,305
File size:	39 MB
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About the Author

Judy Lowe (Columbia, SC) has loved gardening her whole life and has been writing about it for more than twenty-five years. Lowe has been the garden editor of many newspapers, including the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and, most recently, the Christian Science Monitor in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been very active in the Garden Writers Association, a garden writers group consisting of more than 2,000 members, having served on the board for fourteen years and as president for two years. Lowe's eleven previous books include several for Cool Springs Press--Herbs!: Creative Herb Garden Themes and Projects (2011), Tennessee&Kentucky Gardener's Guide (2005), and Month-by-Month Gardening in Tennessee and Kentucky (2003)--as well as Ortho's All About Pruning (Ortho, 2009). Judy has been honored numerous times by the Garden Writer's Association, the National Garden Bureau, and many other gardening groups.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

January 18

February 32

March 48

April 66

May 88

June 110

July 126

August 142

September 158

October 174

November 192

December 206

Appendix 216

Composting 216

Integrated Pest Managment 219

Plants for Acidic or Alkaline Soil 222

Plants for Wet Soil 224

Bibliography 225

Zone Map 226

Precipitation Maps 227

Late Spring Frost Maps 228

First Fall Frost Maps 229

Index 230

Photo Credits 239

Meet Judy Lowe 240