Derek Fell's Grow This! A Garden Expert's Guide to Choosing the Best Vegetables, Flowers, and Seeds So You're Never Disappointed Again

by Fell, Derek

• ISBN13: 9781609618278
• ISBN10: 1609618270
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-02-12
• Publisher: Rodale Books

Summary

What gardeners want most is a bigger and better return on their investment of time and moneymaximum yields and superior flavor for edibles, long-lasting blooms for flowers. Just Grow This!features expert advice for choosing and growing the top-performing plants (and avoiding the ones that disappoint).Derek Fell has grown hundreds of varieties and annually visits gardens and test plots across America, so he's qualified to guide gardeners to the best of the bestmore than 600 vegetable, flower, herb, and lawn grass all-stars. He offers honest feedback about plant performance, even when it contradicts favorable public opinion or a grower's claims. Seed racks may be filled with 'Kentucky Wonder' snap beans, but he dismisses that variety as too fibrous and needy and instead recommends 'Blue Lake' beans for tenderness and high yields. Fell's first-hand experience means the difference between choosing plant winners and losers. Packed with insider evaluations from seedsmen, growers, and nursery retailers that readers won't find elsewhere, Just Grow This!explains industry lingo and debunks marketing hype to help gardeners select the best-performing plants for all garden conditions and goals.

Author Biography

DEREK FELL is a prolific garden writer and photographer. His garden, art, and travel books have more than 2.5 million copies in print, and his photo library contains more than 150,000 images. He lives in Pipersville, PA, at historic Cedaridge Farm and on Sanibel Island, FL, where he cultivates award-winning gardens of flowers, fruits, vegetables, and tropicals.