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product* iiiiu ilowers, m^ikiiing time off for a break. That is. if you’ve done your homework, diligently planned, planted, weeded and mulched in spring.

This is a good time to take mental and actual notes on your successes and otherwise. It’s also a good time to learn some new things or to start imagining next year’s garden, now. while you can see the naked truth in front of you. Instead of toiling in the hot sun, why not entertain yourself with a glass of iced mint tea and few good garden reads? If you’re behind on all your work, consider reading one or two books anyway so that next year you can apply your new skills and sit down with the rest of usl All-round ecological

concepts, methods

These books are pivotal, in terms of considering the garden environment way beyond plants and fertilizer, they look at the whole picture, key to creating and sustaining ecological health.

• Seeds of Change, the organic seed company published: Gardening for the Future of the Earth/ Howard Yana Shapiro and John Harrisson. This book profiles visionary, master organic “gardeners” such as John Jeavons, Masanobu Fukuoka, Wes Jackson, Bill Mollison, Carol Deppe and Alan Kapuler, all who've developed patternbased practices based upon their personal observations. , They are perfect examples of people who possess biological literacy.

Reading this book will give you a good introduction to

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