Push the Zone: The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics

by David The Good

"Have you ever wished you could grow mangoes, coffee, oranges and other delicious tropical plants… but find yourself limited by a less-than-tropical climate? If you long for Key lime pies at Christmas, or homegrown bananas at breakfast, you’re not alone! Expert gardener and mad scientist David The Good fought for years to figure out how grow tropical plants hundreds of miles outside their natural climate range… and he succeeded!

In PUSH THE The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics, David the Good shares his successes and failures in expanding plant ranges, and equips you with the knowledge you need to add a growing zone or two to your own backyard. Based on original research done in North Florida, PUSH THE ZONE is useful for northern gardeners as well. Discover microclimates in your yard, use the thermal mass of walls to grow impossible plants and uncover growing secrets that will change your entire view of what can grow where!"

Featuring a foreword by Dr. David Francko, the author of PALMS WON'T GROW HERE AND OTHER MYTHS.

Genres: Gardening

123 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 25, 2017

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, but definitely some acknowledged limitations. As he notes in the introduction, this book isn't going to let me grow tropical plants in the frozen wilderness of Yankeestan. There was some overlap between the plant listings in this one and Grow or Die, and in some cases having two perspectives separated in time and focus on the same plant was interesting (as with yams), but in others it was overkill (as with sugarcane). The waterfeatures and sunken-pit greenhouses were heat conservation tricks I hadn't heard of. I was a little disappointed that in the breeding / genetics chapter he didn't mention Ed Currie's work on cold-tolerant cannabis.