Monday, April 25, 2022

Grow Now (How we can Save Our Health, Communities, and Planet, One Garden at a Time)

Author:    Emily Murphy
Genre:     Reference/Gardening

Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #:    9781643260471
Timber Press
226 Pages
$23.99; $9.99 Amazon
January 18, 2022

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Did you know you can have a garden that's equal parts food source and wildlife haven?  In Grow Now, Emily Murphy shares easy-to-follow principles for regenerative gardening that foster biodiversity and improve soil health.  She also shows how every single yard mirrors and connects to the greater ecosystem around us.

No-dig growing, composting and mulching smartly, and planting a variety of edible perennials that attract bees and butterflies are all common-sense techniques everyone can use to grow positive change.  You'll also find detailed advice on increasing your nature quotient, choosing plants that cycle more carbon back into the soil, selecting a broader variety of vegetables and fruits to improve overall soil fertility, rethinking space devoted to lawns, and adding companion plants for pollinators to rewild any plot of land.  Exquisitely photographed and filled with helpful lists and sidebars, Grow Now is an actionable, hopeful, and joyful roadmap for growing our way to individual climate contributions.

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This book is filled with helpful information -- if you live where there is a lot of rain.  There is no information on irrigation for states that don't.  I live in one of those states, and what good would it do to plant all these things if they're going to die?  I can't afford to put in a high-priced irrigation system, and it would have been nice to have information on what plants don't need tons of water to exist.

Try growing blueberries in the desert.  You can't.  We already have desert plants and flowers, so there isn't anything new here that would give information on growing herbs that I didn't already have.  Unfortunately, this book just wasn't what I was looking for, while it does have interesting information, if you have time to use it; and you will need a lot of time to grow the plants she mentions.

I was given a copy of this book from Amazon but this in no way influenced my review.


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