Eat More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and Tending an Organic Garden. - Ellen Sandbeck - book review

Science News, Feb 22, 2003

ELLEN SANDBECK

Sandbeck and her husband have designed and cared for low-maintenance, organic gardens for 20 years. Here, she shares her best-loved, most useful tips for designing, planting, and nurturing such gardens. She emphasizes the importance of choosing the right plants for your climate and how to "vaccinate" your garden against disease by applying good compost. Her text is not only informative, but also clever, as she tells how to banish beetles with wheat bran and eradicate weeds with sunflower seeds. Broadway, 2003, 196 p., b&w illus., paperback, $10.95.