This is our handbook for gardening, and we pulled it out again as we started building up our garden in our new yard - which, with the hard work of Kenyon and my dad, may now be just sunny enough to grow a few things. The peas, beans, and romaine I've planted have sprouted, and the lettuce we transplanted seems to be doing well.
Mel is a civil engineer who came up with the square foot gardening technique to make gardening more efficient. It's a rather fool-proof method of gardening that anyone can do, as evidenced by the fact that I've been able to do it. The keys are the contained, manageable space that means fewer materials and less work. The book is easy to use and informative whether you're an advanced gardener or just starting out, and I understand there's a newer version available! I might just have to check that out.
The author introducing the concept:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Lu-7FIj_g
Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYMURCvVnY
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
One of the better Pratchett novels; I think this was written when he was really getting into his swing, as it references his fun children's (or is it YA?) book, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, several times, and was followed by Night Watch, which I think I remember as one of my favorites. The Anthropomorphic Personification of Death is being forced into retirement for becoming too human-like, which leaves Death (in his newly assumed identity fieldhand Bill Door) facing death and causes problems all over Discworld. I sometimes wonder what it means that I was so able to enjoy a book in which one of the protagonists ("Windle Poons," the zombie of a recently-departed 130-year-old wizard) has to face an infestation of the dreaded parasite, the shopping mall, which in this case is an actual life form.
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