Carolinas Gardener's Handbook: All You Need to Know to Plan, Plant & Maintain a Carolinas Garden - Paperback

by Toby Bost (Author), Bob Polomski (Author)

Carolina Gardener's Handbook is filled with need-to-know information from popular Carolina gardening experts. Each expert includes his or her collective wisdom in this complete guide for Carolina gardeners. In addition to hundreds of proven plants, this resource has monthly to-do calendars for more than ten plant categories from annuals to vines. When to information assists gardeners with the proper care and timing for everything from planting to watering. Advice on gardening with less water addresses the challenges of gardening in the Carolinas.

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Your one-stop source for all your questions about gardening in the Carolinas! Creating a flowerbed that draws admiring looks from passersby, complementing the look of your home with a beautiful landscape, and harvesting your very own homegrown edibles fresh from the garden does not happen by chance. No matter where in the Carolinas you live, you know that gardening success depends on knowing not only how but when to perform certain tasks. "Carolinas Gardener's Handbook" features: Chapters on edible gardening, including fruits, herbs, and vegetablesTen popular plant categories, from annuals to treesMonthly to-do calendars for each of the plant categoriesInformation on sustainable and environmentally sound gardening practicesA special section on growing roses in the Carolinas, a rose for every regionWith input from a number of seasoned gardeners from both North and South Carolina, we have compiled a complete garden reference to answer any question. Happy Gardening!

Author Biography

As field faculty emeritus, Toby Bost is best known for his thirty-one years as a horticulturist and Extension Agent with the NC Cooperative Extension Service. For more than two decades, he recruited and certified more than 400 Master Gardeners in Durham and Forsyth counties, appearing frequently in the media as a gardening educator. He has been a garden writer for several newspapers and magazines, including Carolina Gardener and Our State. Many landscape professionals have attended the programs he developed to assist them with licensure in myriad trade associations. For six years, he was director of the Arboretum at Tanglewood Park.