Northeast Gardener's Year

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One complete season in the garden--sharing the author's experiences and discussing a variety of vegetables, flowers, and gardening techniques Glory be! A gardening book stuffed with regional advice and real first-hand experience. The mix of personal opinion and horticultural insight has created a most useful almanac. Read it and grow wise.--Roger B. Swain, Host, PBS Television's Victory Garden Lee Reich is exactly the sort of guide to gardening I wish I'd had when I started out--he's a fount of information and he's good company. A Northeast Gardener's Year brings together the authority of an experienced horticulturalist and the grace of a fine writer. A rare, and welcome, combination.--Michael Pollan, Author of Second Nature

Lee Reich is a professional horticulturalist and garden writer with a Ph.D. in horticulture. He contributes frequently to The New York Times gardening pages, Horticulture, and Organic Gardening, among other publications, and is the author of Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention (Addison-Wesley, 1991). He lives in New Paltz, New York, but has gardened as far west as Wisconsin and as far south as Delaware.