Author
Niall Edworthy

Description
A wonderful collection as profuse and variegated as gardening itself. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous quotations, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, and words of rural wisdom.  This will make an excellent gift.

Synopsis
"The Curious Gardener’s Almanac" contains over 1000 entries of remarkable information about flowers, vegetables, fruits, trees, herbs, insects, birds, water, soil, tools, composts, climate, recipes, gardens and gardeners, myths, superstitions, biodynamics. In short, it is a collection as profuse and variegated as gardening itself. Woven into this wealth of knowledge are famous quotations, anecdotes, traditional sayings, lines of verse, and words of rural wisdom. The spirit and focus of the Almanac is British but the wider picture is international as so much of our gardens originated from overseas. Dry or dull information has no place in the almanac and its presentation is as appealing as the content.

Reviews
Packed full of recipes, sages, tips and histories, it is a perfect addition to any greenhouse collection...this book has the capacity to encourage, inform and inspire...A perfect present for the green-fingered.
The Ecologist

Perhaps this book should come with a warning to all aspiring horticulturalists: Niall Edworthy is not a gardener! After moving house, and finding himself with a plot to call his own, he decided to get his hands dirty. However, he knew absolutely nothing. After mistaking garlic for asparagus under the watchful and surprisingly tolerant gaze of his neighbour, he decided to seek semi-professional help. The result is this quite amazing collection of time-honoured wisdom, gathered from diverse sources, and covering subjects like good and bad bed-fellows (plants, that is), recipes for all your wonderful home-grown goodies, and titbits like the fact that aubergines were once thought to be poisonous to Christians! This almanac is a definite must for the dabbler as much as for the dedicated gardener.
Mr G.R. Davies ’MadBob’, Cardiff

More Information
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Eden Books,Transworld (2 Oct 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1903919908
ISBN-13: 978-1903919903
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm