The New Hampshire Gardener's Companion; An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Granite State

by Henry Homeyer

• ISBN13: 9780762742998
• ISBN10: 0762742992
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Globe Pequot

Summary

To grow the perfect tomato in New Hampshire, gardeners can't follow the same rules as gardeners in Connecticut. With A New Hampshire Gardener's Companion, they'll take the guesswork out of tomato cultivation as well as lawn care, flower growing, shrub maintenance, dealing with limited growing seasons, and a host of other gardening- related issues. Packed with reliable, specific information from the Master Gardener program and from New Hampshire gardening authors and other local experts, this is the one resource that New Hampshire residents need to have successful green thumbs in their state.

Author Biography

Henry Homeyer is a New Hampshire master gardener and a garden designer living in Cornish Flat, New Hampshire. He is a freelance writer for the New York Times and for various Vermont and New Hampshire newspapers; associate editor of People, Places and Plants magazine; and author of Notes from the Garden (University Press of New England, 2003).

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Firm Foundations
Soils	2	(18)
Growing Seasons	20	(17)
Water	37	(13)
Green Things
Vegetable Gardening	50	(18)
Annual Flowers	68	(16)
Perennial Flowers and Bulbs	84	(15)
Trees and Shrubs	99	(15)
Lawns	114	(12)
Invasive Plants	126	(14)
Garden Solutions
Coping with Pests and Diseases	140	(16)
Learning from Public Gardens	156	(10)
Resources for the New Hampshire Gardener	166	(9)
Glossary	175	(5)
Index	180