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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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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