East Coast Gardener: A Month-by-Month Guide to Successful Gardening - by Marjorie Willison

A complete reference tool for the East Coast Gardener, this month-by-month guide describes how and when to choose, plant, nurture, and harvest a wide variety of flowers, vegetables, fruit and herbs.  By observing the growth of certain indicator plants and taking into account expected frost dates, gardeners can work out a yearly gardening schedule - indoor and outdoor both - that is perfectly tuned to their own patch of paradise, no matter what the climate.

Accessible and comprehensive, East Coast Gardener pulls together a wealth of information from the Maritimes' foremost gardening expert.  Easy-to-use tables, green-thumb tips, preventative measures, illustrations of basic methods, key points, advanced techniques and more make this a useful and instructive guide for experienced and novice gardeners alike.

About the Author

MARJORIE WILLISON grew up gardening on the Canadian prairies but has spent much of her life in Maritime Canada growing and using a wide variety of plants. Since 1985, she has been answering gardening questions on CBC Radio’s Maritime Noon and is a popular speaker with considerable experience teaching many aspects of gardening.  Marjorie has a Master of Science degree in ecology from Dalhousie University and has long been a community activist promoting urban agriculture and locally sustainable food systems.

Author: Marjorie Willison
Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006
ISBN: 9781551095974
Paperback: 490 pages
Dimensions:  8” x 10”