The 5-Minute Gardener: How to Plan, Create, and Sustain a Low-Maintenance Garden - Softcover

With a little preparation and a few minutes a day, new or experienced gardeners can have a colorful flower garden and a bounty of vegetables with this fun and handy manual. Readers interested in a successful flower garden learn how to choose low-care perennials and annuals as well as develop blueprints, analyze the soil, and choose the right equipment. A productive vegetable garden can be achieved with low-care, high-yield vegetables as well as efficiently mulching and fertilizing the soil and the effective control of pests and disease. Useful, easy-to-follow information on the basics of efficient gardening ensures that even the most harried gardener gets their planting off to the right start.

\Brenda Little is the author of the Backyard Organic Gardening, Companion Planting in Australia, The Complete Book of Herbs and Spices, The Encyclopedia of Vegetable Gardening, The Green Gardener, and The Illustrated Herbal Encyclopedia.