Garden School gives advice to beginners, but also practical tips for the more experienced gardener. Did you know that trees should not be pruned before planting? Or that goldfish can survive a cold winter if you cover your pond with a sheet of styrof ...
Garden School gives advice to beginners, but also practical tips for the more experienced gardener. Did you know that trees should not be pruned before planting? Or that goldfish can survive a cold winter if you cover your pond with a sheet of styrofoam?
In Garden School, there is basic information about gardening, ranging from soils and the choice of trees to tips about how you can make your balcony into a lush mini-garden. Here are true stories about life with a garden: the struggle against frost, water voles and the scarlet lily beetle, but also about the joy of watching a seed germinate, of collecting seeds from other gardens and parks and about raising special plants that remind you of friends, journeys or your grandmother’s garden.
Twenty garden lessons:
- Soils
- Compost and manure
- Planning a new garden
- An old garden
- Choosing plants
- Hedges and hanging plants, arches and gates
- Perennials, the rose garden
- Annuals
- Bulbs
- Broadleaf and coniferous trees, and pruning
- Planting and watering
- Seeds and propagation. Taking cuttings
- The kitchen garden and herb garden. Tools
- Greenhouses and frames
- Fruit trees and berry bushes
- Vermin and disease
- Ornaments. Lighting
- Water and ponds
- Balcony and terrace
- Calendar