A Year in My Garden

by Linda Larson

“A Year In My Garden” gives readers a month-by-month tour of awarding-winning writer Linda Larson’s garden. With full-color photographs, she illustrates what life is like in a Minnesota garden. The book offers organic solutions and earth-friendly gardening tips. Tasty recipes, such as apple spice breakfast muffins and garlic tomato soup with tortellini, feature garden produce. The book contains advice for flowers, vegetables, and herbs. In addition the book contains earth-friendly and organic remedies and prevention for these ants, aphids, beetles, caterpillars, cutworms, damping off, deer, fungus, Asian ladybeetles, mice, mosquitoes, rabbits, raccoons, rot, slugs, and weeds. Advice includes how to compost, start seeds, save seeds, transplant, thin plants, dead-head flowers, wrap trees, conserve water, and rotate crops.

180 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 2013

About the author

Linda Larson lives in the woods of Minnesota with her family. She is the author of "A Year in My Garden" and "Grow It. Eat It.," which won the national Ben Franklin award, and maintains her gardening blog at gardenladylinda.blogspot.com. Linda writes an opinion column for the "St. Cloud Times" for the second Thursday of the month. Her first book of fiction is "The Christmas Sisters" about two sisters in Minnesota. "Hidden Maples" is a mystery novella that takes place during a blizzard.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow Linda! Your book has me excited with some new perspective for another Wisconsin winter, and here I was already feeling depressed at knowing snow is coming next. Your book is incredible. I loved the simplicity of it, as well as the great suggestions for gardening issues, and above all the recipes! Who would've thought at making zuchinni pancakes?! Did I say I love you for giving me another way to use one of my favorite veggies? I know many gardeners, and even though I am far from an expert one, I feel there is something for everyone no matter what their knowledge of gardening is in this book. All it takes is someone else's suggestion for gardening for some of us to say, "why didn't I think of that?" Thank you for the awesome book, and the opportunity to share it with others. I will be getting several copies for others for Christmas!

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It contained a large mixture of gardening tips, stories, and recipes, and I could relate to so much since Linda writes about living in and gardening in frigid (yet also sweaty) Minnesota. I plan on buying a copy to keep so I can try more of the recipes out. Definitely recommend to other Minnesotans!