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Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent (Hardcover): Ruth Stout Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent (Hardcover)
Ruth Stout
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book - Secrets of the Famous Year Round Mulch Method (Paperback): Ruth Stout, Richard Clemence The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book - Secrets of the Famous Year Round Mulch Method (Paperback)
Ruth Stout, Richard Clemence; Edited by Steven Siler
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gardening Without Work (Paperback): Ruth Stout Gardening Without Work (Paperback)
Ruth Stout
R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, The Busy and the Indolent (Paperback): Steven W. Siler Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, The Busy and the Indolent (Paperback)
Steven W. Siler; Ruth Stout
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gardening without Work (Paperback): Ruth Stout Gardening without Work (Paperback)
Ruth Stout
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While everyone loves eating fresh garden produce, not everyone has the time and energy to create a productive garden. But what if growing delicious crops required hardly any effort? What if you could have succulent strawberries, perfect peas, and terrific tomatoes without needing to touch a spade, hoe, or plow-without needing to worry about irrigating, spraying, sowing a cover crop, weeding, cultivating, or building a compost pile? If that sounds good, the Stout System is the answer for you

Ruth Stout has shown tens of thousands of gardeners how to greatly reduce their gardening workload. Let Ruth (and within a few chapters, she will feel like a friend ) show you how you can rejuvenate the soil and make your fruits, vegetables, and flowers thrive with low-maintenance mulch gardening.

Widely-renowned as a gardening expert (and sister of the famed mystery writer Rex Stout), Ruth Stout wrote extensively about how to simplify gardening. Her techniques have brought people from all over the world to her garden, and now her advice can help you maximize "your" garden's output with minimal effort. In addition to the time-saving tips provided, Stout's joyous perspective on life and gardening makes this book a delight-and is a must-read for anyone growing food or flowers.

Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent (Large Print) (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print... Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent (Large Print) (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Ruth Stout; Illustrated by Nan Stone; Foreword by Robert Plamondon
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
If You Would be Happy (Paperback): Ruth Stout If You Would be Happy (Paperback)
Ruth Stout
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back - A New Method of Mulch Gardening (Paperback): Ruth Stout How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back - A New Method of Mulch Gardening (Paperback)
Ruth Stout; Edited by Steven Siler
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Have A Green Thumb Without an Aching Back (Paperback): Ruth Stout How to Have A Green Thumb Without an Aching Back (Paperback)
Ruth Stout
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It's a Woman's World (Paperback): Ruth Stout It's a Woman's World (Paperback)
Ruth Stout
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent (Paperback): Ruth Stout Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent (Paperback)
Ruth Stout; Illustrated by Nan Stone
R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rearming the French - Special Studies (Paperback): Marcel Vigneras Rearming the French - Special Studies (Paperback)
Marcel Vigneras; Edited by Kent Roberts Greenfield, Ruth Stout
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

United States Army In World War II. Additional Contributors Are John H. Stokes And Hugh M. Cole. The Reemergence Of French National Forces In The War Against The Axis Powers, And The Role Of Large Scale American Aid.

If You Would Be Happy - Cultivate Your Life Like a Garden (Paperback): Ruth Stout If You Would Be Happy - Cultivate Your Life Like a Garden (Paperback)
Ruth Stout; Foreword by Michaela Lonning; Edited by Robert Plamondon
R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rearming The French - Special Studies (Hardcover): Marcel Vigneras Rearming The French - Special Studies (Hardcover)
Marcel Vigneras; Edited by Kent Roberts Greenfield, Ruth Stout
R1,555 Discovery Miles 15 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

United States Army In World War II. Additional Contributors Are John H. Stokes And Hugh M. Cole. The Reemergence Of French National Forces In The War Against The Axis Powers, And The Role Of Large Scale American Aid.

Company Coming - Six Decades of Hospitality (Paperback): Ruth Stout Company Coming - Six Decades of Hospitality (Paperback)
Ruth Stout; Selected by Robert Plamondon
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Guess who's coming to dinner?" With Ruth Stout, you never knew Would it be sweet-tempered temperance activist, Carrie Nation, who smashed the windows of illegal saloons with a hatchet? Would it be her younger brother, Rex Stout, who finagled his way onto Teddy Roosevelt's presidential yacht and later became famous for his Nero Wolfe mysteries? Would it be Dr. Poulin, the famous hypnotist? Simple-living guru Scott Nearing? Not to mention friends, neighbors, starving artists, and refugees. Ruth Stout tells the story of her life in terms of who showed up for dinner, and she describes the way she and her husband Fred turned their barn into simple visitor accommodations, turning guests into neighbors and avoiding Ben Franklin's maxim that "fish and visitors stink after three days." The main flaw of this book is that it's too short Major events like Ruth's work in Russia during the great famine in the Twenties are mentioned only briefly, and when we realize that the New York brownstone that they lived in for a while became Nero Wolfe's house in her brother Rex's detective stories, we'd like fuller descriptions and, if possible, floor plans But for everything that isn't there, there's something that is, making the book funny and wise and full of surprises, like all of Ruth's writing. Ruth Stout was a beloved advocate of organic gardening, and her book, "Gardening Without Work," and her magazine articles popularized her style of simple living to millions. "Company Coming" was first published in 1958, and Norton Creek Press is proud to offer it to a new generation. See http: //www.nortoncreekpress.com for our line of classic books.

Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent (Paperback): Ruth Stout Gardening Without Work - For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent (Paperback)
Ruth Stout; Foreword by Robert Plamondon
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Garden expert and lovable eccentric Ruth Stout once said: "At the age of 87 I grow vegetables for two people the year-round, doing all the work myself and freezing the surplus. I tend several flower beds, write a column every week, answer an awful lot of mail, do the housework and cooking; and never do any of these things after 11 o'clock in the morning " Her first book about her no-work gardening system, "How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back," was the kind of book people can't bear to return. She reports, "A dentist in Pennsylvania and a doctor in Oregon have both written me that they keep a copy of my garden book in their waiting rooms. Or try to; the dentist has had twenty-three copies stolen, the doctor, sixteen." "Gardening Without Work" is her second gardening book and is even more entertaining and instructional than the first, so hide it from your friends How does it work? "And now let's get down to business. The labor-saving part of my system is that I never plow, spade, sow a cover crop, harrow, hoe, cultivate, weed, water or irrigate, or spray. I use just one fertilizer (cottonseed or soybean meal), and I don't go through the tortuous business of building a compost pile. Just yesterday, under the Questions and Answers' in a big reputable farm paper, someone asked how to make a compost pile and the editor explained the arduous performance. After I read this I lay there on the couch and suffered because the victim's address wasn't given; there was no way I could reach him. "My way is simply to keep a thick mulch of any vegetable matter that rots on both my vegetable and flower garden all year round. As it decays and enriches the soil, I add more." Regardless of topic, Ruth Stout's writing is always about living a joyous and independent life, and "Gardening Without Work" is no exception This book is a treasure for the gardener and a delight even to the non-gardener. First published in 1961, this Norton Creek Press version is an exact reproduction of the original edition. Ruth Stout, who, in her teens helped temperance activist Carrie Nation smash saloon windows, could turn any aspect of life into an adventure. She may have been the only woman who both gardened in the nude and wrote a book on being a hostess ("Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality"). She died in 1980 at the age of 96.

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