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The Seasoned Gardener: Exploring the rhythm of the gardening year
*From Liz Zorab, Winner of the Garden Media Guild's Vlog of the Year 2022
Dig deeper into the processes of growing your own organic food with Liz Zorab, self-sufficiency practitioner.
In this personal gardening journey, she explores seasonal harvests and how the vegetable garden sits within the wider context of the gardening landscape – including weather, microclimates, water cycles, light levels, seasons and the gardener’s personal tastes.
Liz’s salt of the earth approach to life and to the garden and her gentle humor makes The Seasoned Gardener an easily digestible read. She provides hundreds of practical tips, including how-to guides, observations and inspiration for both the beginner and practiced gardener alike.
Unlike many gardening books that run from January to December, this book starts in the autumn, when harvesting is at its peak. Most of the fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers highlighted are grouped according to when we enjoy them most – at the point of harvest.
The Seasoned Gardener will show you how to:
Enjoy the abundance of each month of the year
Decide which plants are best to grow in your garden
Find pleasure in your growing space year-round
Avoid the pitfalls of doing too much at once
Be creative with your garden resources
Make the most of your time and energy
Celebrate nature’s productivity as much as your own
This is a journey of experimentation and learning that will inspire you to grow tastier food and savor the experience.
Dig deeper into the processes of growing your own organic food with Liz Zorab, self-sufficiency practitioner.
In this personal gardening journey, she explores seasonal harvests and how the vegetable garden sits within the wider context of the gardening landscape – including weather, microclimates, water cycles, light levels, seasons and the gardener’s personal tastes.
Liz’s salt of the earth approach to life and to the garden and her gentle humor makes The Seasoned Gardener an easily digestible read. She provides hundreds of practical tips, including how-to guides, observations and inspiration for both the beginner and practiced gardener alike.
Unlike many gardening books that run from January to December, this book starts in the autumn, when harvesting is at its peak. Most of the fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers highlighted are grouped according to when we enjoy them most – at the point of harvest.
The Seasoned Gardener will show you how to:
Enjoy the abundance of each month of the year
Decide which plants are best to grow in your garden
Find pleasure in your growing space year-round
Avoid the pitfalls of doing too much at once
Be creative with your garden resources
Make the most of your time and energy
Celebrate nature’s productivity as much as your own
This is a journey of experimentation and learning that will inspire you to grow tastier food and savor the experience.
240 pages, Paperback
Published May 31, 2023
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February 3, 2024
As with Liz's first book, her latest reads like a delightful diary of the gardening year. Not so much about gardening advice, as the relating of gardening stories and adventures and the things she learned from them as the year went by. Her humor is always refreshing and makes the read all that more enjoyable.
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September 4, 2025DNF
I like that the book starts the gardening year in fall, and there's useful insights and experience in there. I did not care for the author's worldview (subtle guilt over human intervention in sacred nature) and slightly grumpy sense of humor, so I started losing the enjoyment vibe, and decided there were better gardening books out there. Moving on!
I like that the book starts the gardening year in fall, and there's useful insights and experience in there. I did not care for the author's worldview (subtle guilt over human intervention in sacred nature) and slightly grumpy sense of humor, so I started losing the enjoyment vibe, and decided there were better gardening books out there. Moving on!
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews