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Publishers Weekly12/01/2014 This thoughtful book is a guide for growing tomatoes, squash, and greens, but its most significant contribution is Deppe's approach to gardening. She encourages the gardener to cultivate an intuitive relationship with plants and almost a sixth sense about when to actively work in the garden, and when to stand back and let the plants do the growing they need to do. She calls it the Tao of gardening, a form of "non-doing" or "doing that which gives maximum effect for the minimum effort," so that unnecessary action has been eliminated. It is about balance: not watering too much, not fertilizing too much. She further enjoins the gardener to create a relationship with the garden, knowing what needs tending what needs to be left alone.
About the Author
Oregon plant breeder Carol Deppe holds a PhD in biology from Harvard University and specializes in developing public-domain crops for organic growing conditions, sustainable agriculture, and human survival for the next thousand years. Carol is founder and owner of Fertile Valley Seeds. For seeds, articles, and further adventures, visit her website www.caroldeppe.com.
