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The Anxious Gardener's Book of Answers identifies the 100 most common gardening mistakes and gives gardeners the techniques to prevent them. Or, if it's too late and they've already goofed, there are tips to fix the mistake. The book's 24 chapters tackle every kind of gardening disaster, whether it has to do with plants, tools and techniques, or general care and maintenance. Gardeners looking to prune their roses will learn to hold off until late winter to avoid damaging plant tissue. Gardeners that have allowed their mint to overgrow? Dunn advises pulling it out and replanting it in a container to control the root. Organized by common garden topics and designed to be easily dipped in and out of, The Anxious Gardener's Book of Answers offers nuggets of wisdom based on Teri Dunn Chace's years of hands-on gardening experience.



About the Author

Teri Dunn Chace

A writer and an editor with a broad range of interests, Teri has a taste for exploration and a talent for bringing back stories and information that resonate with insight and wonder--whether she's examining flowers, pie, or small-town life. She has over 35 books in publication, including a 2016 American Horticultural Society award-winner (Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit) and two that were named to amazon.com's "Best Books of 2013." She's available for presentations based on her books.

She has also worked in the direct-marketing field, writing catalog, web, and advertising copy; she once won the industry's highest award for her vivid copywriting. She has written, edited, and blogged for the nation's leading roadside-travel 'zine and website, Roadside (and RoadsideOnline.com) . The most intriguing job she's ever held? Monitoring rare turtles for The Nature Conservancy. Or...raising teenage boys.

Raised in California and educated at Bard College in New York, she divides her time between a small village in Upstate New York and a summer home on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.

For more, please visit her website at terichacewriter dot com



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