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Title: Gardening for Dummies by Mike MacCaskey, Bill Marken ISBN: 0-7645-5130-2 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: San Luis Obispo guy is a Snob and a Ja-k-ss.
Comment: Darn good Book for the intended audience: those new to gardening. I have a huge backyard and needed some simple, straightforward advice on gardening- this fine tome provided it. If you are a professional horticulturalist perhaps you don't need it, but for the other 99.9% of humanity, this book provides the essentials. If I were a physicist, I wouldn't bother reviewing books on elementary mathematics to illustrate my relative excellence. Sheesh!
Rating: 5
Summary: I was one of those Dummies
Comment: I don't know how it happened but I thought I had not inherited the green thumb that my parents and Grandparents all had. That is until I found this wonderful guide to beginners gardening and it answered all the questions or told me simply how to find out the answers. I believe my local nursery was also happy that I took time out from trying to do it on my own and read the book.My mother said that she even learned a few new things while glancing through. It is also a good brush up guide before the spring thaw.
Rating: 3
Summary: Garden Book for Idiots
Comment: Actually this is a pretty decent book and there are many good gardening tips in it. I guess the main reason I'm not very fond of it ( got it as a gift and promptly gave it away myself ) is that I find the whole idea of it rather tasteless.
Perhaps for folks whose idea of good reading is comic books, this would be the perfect garden book. It is indeed set up for those who are easily distracted, lots of bullet points and little boxes and so on.
I question whether or not this book was even needed. There are many fine how-to garden books already out there. The old Taylor's Encyclopedia of Gardening, for example, can usually be found used for about the same price or less. Taylors, although old, is a real gardening book.
Somehow I equate gardening with intelligence, with class, with good taste. I enjoy having shelves of books on all the different aspects of horticulture and hardly want one titled Gardening for Dummies. I have a book, Auto Repair for Dummies (also a present) and somehow I don't mind being an automotive dummy. But a garden variety dummy is a bit much.
Nonetheless, if you simply don't have the patience for most books, and you don't know beans about gardening, go for it. Despite the title, the author, Michael MacCaskey, knows plenty about gardening.
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Title: Landscaping for Dummies by Phillip Giroux, Bob Beckstrom, Lance Walheim, The Editors of the National Gardening Association ISBN: 0764551280 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 13 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Lawn Care for Dummies by Lance Walheim, The National Gardening Association ISBN: 0764550772 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 13 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Home Maintenance for Dummies by James Carey, Morris Carey ISBN: 0764552155 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 13 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Herb Gardening for Dummies by Karan Davis Cutler, Kathleen Fisher, National Gardening Association, Kathleen Fisher ISBN: 0764552007 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 26 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Roses for Dummies by Lance Walheim, The Editors of the National Gardening Association ISBN: 0764552023 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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