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The Grumpy Gardener's Handbook

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Grumpy Gardener's Handbook
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ivor Grump
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreHumour collections and anthologies
Gardening
ISBN/Barcode 9781907554247
ClassificationsDewey:635.0207
Audience
General
Illustrations 15 Black and White Illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint Portico
Publication Date 3 February 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Following in the curmudgeonly footsteps of The Grumpy Driver's and Golfer's Handbooks, this a compilation of all things frustrating about maintaining the average domestic garden. His lawn develops alopecia, his fruit trees are shunned by all pollinating insects, his veg is a big hit with slugs and his Indian sandstone patio becomes an ingenious sunken garden. Chapters include Pruning, Weeding, Compost (Ivor is convinced that cryogenics fan Walt Disney could be happily accommodated in his non-decomposing compost bins), Sheds, Pond Life, "Oh, I Simply Adore Lobelia" (people who talk too loudly in show gardens), tV Gardening, Pests and Living With 'Leaf Lady', a woman hell-bent on identifying every foreign leaf that is swept into their garden - and returning it... there is a Grumpy Calendar of seasonal jobs in the garden and how best to avoid them, plus advice on how to impress people with a Slacker's Veg Patch.

Author Biography

Ivor Grump has been gently killing things in his garden since he was old enough to bend a trowel. Despite taking advice from TV and radio gardening programmes, magazines, seed packets and the odd training course he has still managed to maintain the horticultural equivalent of Chernobyl in his back garden.