The Sustainable-Enough Garden - Softcover

Warner, Rebecca

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9780692570500: The Sustainable-Enough Garden

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ISBN 10: 0692570500 ISBN 13: 9780692570500

Publisher: Shade Garden Press, 2016

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Most people who aren’t professional gardeners can’t be sustainability purists. With limited time, energy, and budgets, it’s necessary to make compromises. In The Sustainable-Enough Garden, Rebecca Warner offers an honest account of her struggles to achieve her environmental gardening goals without giving up her day job or breaking the bank. In doing so, she offers a road forward that balances idealism with practicality in making choices that work for each individual’s own gardening landscape and lifestyle.

Although this book’s main focus is ornamental gardening, it also touches on vegetable gardening. Chapters cover:

Composting
Sustaining soil
Dealing with a grass lawn
Incorporating native plants
Contending with invasive plants
Coexisting with pests
Sourcing materials
Watering

The Sustainable-Enough Garden chronicles Warner’s journey to find realistic solutions that are better for the ecosystem and more in tune with natural processes. It provides the nitty-gritty details of how she came to her decisions: applying the latest scientific information, giving detailed descriptions of new techniques she tried, and following up on how they worked.

By sharing her experiences rather than telling readers what they must do to be environmentally correct, Warner demonstrates how to choose your battles and forge your own path toward sustainable gardening.

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About the Author:

Rebecca Warner is a suburban weekend gardener in Newton, Massachusetts, gardening on a one-third-acre lot. She is is an avid amateur ornamental gardener with thirty years’ experience working toward more sustainable gardening practices.

Five years ago, Douglas Tallamy’s book Bringing Nature Home inspired a new level of commitment as she learned about the damage humans have done to the ecosystem by crowding out native plants.

Passionate about finding practical ways to apply eco-friendly principles to gardening, she believes gardeners can be an important part of the solution for environmental problems.

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