The Naked Truth About Gardening, the Bare Essentials: The Anyone Can Grow Plants Guide to Hobby Gardening Indoors & Outdoors
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The Naked Truth About Gardening, is an essential guide on how to successfully grow plants. Author, Eleanor Rose, believes ANYONE can grow plants if they know how. It is the how, that is surprising. In The Naked Truth About Gardening: The Bare Essentials, Eleanor shares her top 10 Naked Truths for gardening. These truths are the keys that unlock the secrets to mastering this ancient art while utilizing technology of the 21st century. This book contains what every person needs to know to discover their naked gardening self.
Learn top 10 Naked Truths of successful gardeners.
Grow robust healthy plants anywhere in the world.
Exercise time tested tips, tricks and techniques to achieve extraordinary results.
Appreciate low maintenance and economical plants.
Choose the best plant for a growing space by measuring light, temperature and humidity.
Acquire tools and supplies for just pennies on the dollar or even for free.
Practice time, space, and money saving strategies for your garden.
Learn to shop efficiently and effectively for healthy plants at bargain basement prices.
Avoid the frustration and disappointment of poor plant performance.
Become part of the pollution solution by growing environmentally friendly plants.
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Eleanor Roses love and enthusiasm for gardening, nature and the environment will inspire you. In The Naked Truth About Gardening, The Bare Essentials, she shares her 25 years of practical gardening experience to help you save time, space and money. In The Naked Truth About Gardening, The Bare Essentials, she has distilled her years of experience into her top 10 Naked Truths of successful gardeners. Every gardener has the opportunity to be a link in the chain of biodiversity with the choices they make in their garden. Her no fuss, down to earth, nitty gritty or Naked perspective enables her to be frugal AND environmentally friendly without sacrificing plant beauty or quality. These truths are the keys that unlock the secrets to mastering this ancient art while utilizing technology of the 21st century. Head of a community garden for 10 years she has the inside scoop and detailed information on websites, tools, supplies and free resources to maximize plant growth. Her book takes you on an adventure to discover your naked garden self. Her time tested, money saving and space saving techniques have inspired many former plant killers to grow healthy robust plants. Eleanor can be contacted online at www.ANakedGardener.com or write to her at P.O. Box 601, East Hanover, NJ 07936
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The Naked Truth About Gardening, the Bare Essentials - Down and Dirty Enterprises
Contents
Acknowledgments:
Preface:
Chapter 1:
A Human Need
Chapter 2:
Au Naturel
Chapter 3:
Hot & Heavy
Chapter 4:
What Blows?
Chapter 5:
Wet & Wonderful
Chapter 6:
Dirty Gardener
Chapter 7:
Useful Anatomy
Chapter 8:
Strip Down to the Nitty Gritty
Chapter 9:
The Naked Self
Chapter 10:
The G
Spot
Chapter 11:
Plant Virgins Can Do It!
Chapter 12:
Resources
NAKED: (na kid) adj. 1. Without disguise or embellishment. 2. Without covering. 3. Without clothing on the body: nude.
This book is dedicated to my husband, grandfather, mother and brothers, who believed in me when I doubted myself.
Acknowledgments:
When I was a child, my mother allowed me to dig holes
everywhere and anywhere in the yard, even when she did not understand why. My younger brothers kept trampling down my new planting beds and running them over with the lawn mower, because they did not understand anything about gardening.
I am a better gardener for it.
I send my love and gratitude to Maria Fallet for her illustrations and years of crazy plant buying road trips. Thank you to Harry J. Kupper, Jr., for revealing his naked legs on the cover of this volume. His legs illustrate superbly, a beautiful naked foundation on which gardeners stand. My unending appreciation and thanks to Karen Hewitt for her hours of editing, compilation, encouragement and friendship. Thank you to Louis A Kupper for the computer assistance that kept this book alive during the blue screen of death.
I would also like to acknowledge the National Counsel of State Garden Clubs and their affiliates for being a source of inspiration and motivation. I thank my local County Agent Master Gardeners program for being an invaluable technical resource and its members for their practical hands in the dirt
perspective. I also wish to thank my local Garden Club for always being a source of encouragement. I am also in debt to my ancestors and family for the heritage of a love of the outdoors and all things in nature.
Thank you to everyone at AuthorHouse for their patience and expertise. Thanks to all my garden friends, you have inspired me and helped make this book a reality.
Eleanor Rose
Preface:
I believe anyone can grow plants once they know how. A few years ago I told a friend that I liked to garden. She asked if I went out into the yard wearing a wide brim straw hat and cotton gloves, carrying a basket and shovel. I was shocked and told her absolutely not. After all, that was how my great, great Aunt Elodia gardened in the 1930’s. This is the new millennium, for goodness sake. I use a SPF 30 sun screen, liquid gloves and my computer to garden.
At that moment, I realized there were stereotypes about gardening that needed to be cleared up. I decided it was about time for a book to be written revealing the Truth
of gardening, the Naked Truth
, if you will.
Mankind has been cultivating the earth for thousands of years, both for survival and for pleasure. Those horticultural processes have evolved into the agriculture and gardening practices we use today. I believe gardening is the satisfaction of our primal need to cultivate the earth. This ancient urge exists in all humans; we have just lost touch with it. This book will help you learn how to apply ancient horticultural wisdom to the modern technological world where people garden in their condominiums, office cubicles, decks, AND backyards. Even if you are a confessed plant killer you can grow plants. This book breaks down the fundamental strategies behind centuries of successful plant growing. It will walk you through, and show you how, to grow plants in simple, practical and down to earth terms.
My passion for gardening connects me to the world in which I live; the sun, the earth, the rain and the air I breathe. It is a sensual experience with sights, sounds, smells, textures and tastes too! It is not only about the plants. It is also about how you experience the garden. I consider myself a Naked gardener. Like many gardeners, I love growing things, inside and out, natural spaces, wild habitats, and healthy environments. All this growing improves the quality of my life. Like you, my time is valuable. I have none to waste. I need to be efficient and effective in my gardening. I know every gardener enjoys growing plants but a naked gardener, like me, enjoys growing plants with less work, more success and spare time to enjoy their garden. What is the point of gardening if you never have time to sit and enjoy it?
I have based this book on knowledge acquired in real garden situations. I’m a practical, not a fanciful, person and I assure you this book is NOT an exercise of Poly Prissy Pants’ Proper Procedures. It will explain the basic details of gardening, details most other books gloss over or fail to mention at all. It will help you rediscover the ancient secrets to success lost within yourself.
Our new millennium, though technologically advanced, has some significant pollution issues. Gardening is a great hobby that is also a part of the pollution solution. It allows you to be a naked hero in your own backyard. Gardeners, by simply growing plants, help save the Earth through contributing to biodiversity, conserving natural resources, reducing pollution and combating the affects of global warming.
The contents of this book will help you save valuable time by evaluating your wants and needs. It differs from other gardening books by looking at gardening with an ancient perspective, while utilizing the technology of the 21st century. Naked gardening seeks to magnify your pleasurable plant growing experience. It is for every gardener and those hoping to become gardeners.
I have been gardening for over 25 years and I never met a plant I didn’t like. I’m excited to share my passion for gardening with you, as well as lots of tips, tricks, money saving and time saving techniques.
Care to bare your essentials? If so, join me and prepare to enter the world of naked gardening.
missing image fileChapter 1:
A Human Need
I believe growing plants is an ancient primal need of every human being. I believe anyone can grow plants anywhere they want. Traditionally, people grow plants in a backyard garden. In the new millennium everyone has a backyard
even if it is just a corner of a table. Anyone, I repeat, anyone, can garden. Your garden space is as unique as your fingerprint. What, you may ask, is the official definition of a garden?
Webster’s Dictionary: garden -n 1. a plot of land for growing flowers, vegetables or fruit. 2. A park like public area, especially one with flowers, plants or animals on display. 3. A fertile well cultivated region. -v. To work in or make into a garden. -- n. Gardener.
Wiktionary (www.wiktionary.org) defines gardening as: horticulture; the process or action of cultivating of the soil particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; describes items or actions connected with the garden.
Most of us have our own unique definition of gardening. The above definitions imply you need to have a plot of land to garden. I contend that all you need is your naked self and a plant. In our modern technological world, people garden in their condominiums, office cubicles, decks, window boxes, fire escapes and their backyards. Nowadays you don’t even need soil. Table top hydroponics and water gardening are becoming common place. My grandmother used to grow cuttings on the window sill in a vase of water. But I am getting ahead of myself. By the end of this book I hope you discover your Naked Garden Self
as I reveal my top 10 Naked Truths
about gardening. Let’s begin the journey by reflecting on our agricultural heritage and begin to reconnect to our ancient primal needs.
A History
You may not realize it, but people