| Improve Your Gardening Skills With American Gardner CD If you think people are born with a green thumb THINK AGAIN! I used to have a brown thumb. I tried raising all sorts of plants, and no matter what type of plant it was they ALWAYS died! I tried planting rose bushes, and before the beauties could even bloom the bushes had become dried sticks without a touch of green. I tried planting corn, squash, beans and all sorts of vegetables and my garden didn't even produce a single kernel. Not even enough food to feed an ant. A friend suggested that I try growing a cactus, so I did, the cactus died. HOW CAN YOU KILL A CACTUS??? Someone else suggested that I try an Aloe Plant, because these things were indestructible. A friend gave me an aloe plant and the poor thing was dead within 3 months. Needless to say my friends quit suggesting things for me to grow. I needed information on how to keep plants from DYING before they got established in my yard and I could not locate this information ANYWHERE! I checked out books in the local library, and had no luck. I searched for days, hours at a time, and could not find the information I needed. I decided to look for older gardening books, and THAT is when my search was over! I found a slew of old gardening books written in the 1800's that answered EVERY question I had about growing trees, fruits, vegetables and flowers that I could dream of. The American Gardener is one of those books, and the main one that helped me in learning everything I need to know about growing any plant I can dream of under the sun! The American Gardner was written in 1854 by William Cobbett. It is now in the public domain and has been converted into electronic format for your enjoyment. The American Gardener provides over 150 pages of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will help you grow plants with ease without them dying like they did on me! Even if you're a professional gardener, you'll find many tips to help better your growing success! Here's What You'll Find In The American Gardener * Choosing the right location on your property for growing plants. You'll find in depth information on slope of your land, and what spot is best for growing successfully. * Preparing the soil properly to provide nutrition for healthy plants * Fencing techniques for your garden. I LOVE this section. The author provides humorous techniques for using hawthorn trees as fencing, to keep troublesome lads from stealing their fruits and vegetables! You do not need to spend hundreds for a chain link, wooden or brick fence. Use hawthorn trees and with a little love and time you'll have a fence that will make your neighbors green with envy! * Designing, or laying out, your garden so that it's pleasing to the eye yet functional as well. * You'll learn how to make hotbeds, so that you can start your vegetables earlier in the season and have edible produce as many as 15 days earlier than normal! This can be a moneymaker if you sell produce. Be the first in your neighborhood to have fresh green tomatoes and watermelons! * Learn the benefits of operating a hobby greenhouse, and how it can be beneficially to your household. * Learn about true seeds and the soundness of seed. You'll learn how to test seed before you plant them, to determine if you have good seed or bad. Some seed will not grow if it's bad, and by using a simple technique you can throw out the bad instead of laboring with planting them only to find no lovely sprouts growing where they were sowed. * Learn proper methods for saving and preserving seed. I find this the most fun of gardening! I now save seed regularly and have a yard full of beautiful blooms from seeds I have saved and sown. * Learn proper sowing methods to improve your seeds germination rate, and to ensure healthy plants. Proper spacing and depth can mean success or failure in the garden! * American Gardener provides proper transplanting methods, to ensure your plants survival when moving from one area to another. This is the chapter that covers the information I was looking for, to ensure my Japanese Maples survival. I now have two Japanese Maples growing successfully in my yard, and what beauty they both bring!* Cultivating your garden properly and methods for tilling, trenching and sowing to ensure your gardens success. * Learn propagating methods so that you can grow many more plants form just one stock plant. Learn propagating from cuttings, by grafting, by using stock tress, by budding and by layering. All of these are easy and fun methods that you and your family are sure to enjoy! * There is a nice section on growing grapes in minimum space while producing so many grapes that it'll make your mouth water! * Learn how to successfully grow 81 different vegetables and herbs, 26 tasty fruits and nuts and the most popular flowers and shrubs with the most gorgeous blooms. You are sure to love the information, guidance and tips provided in American Gardener! I have used this information for myself, and now have a yard full of beautiful trees, flowers and plants instead of a mass plant graveyard! This type of information has helped me in so many ways. I now have 5 rose bushes growing successfully in my yard including the coveted Don Juan rose that now grows below a beautiful catalpa tree. This past spring I planted a successful vegetable garden that provided enough produce to feed 5 families for 2 months and provide many bags for our freezers! My second fall garden was planted just last week and is already sprouting many tiny plants for a second harvest. All this was planted on a piece of plot that measures not more than 20 feet by 40 feet! I had so many cucumbers growing that I could not even can them all I had to give them away! My zucchini's were so huge that they had to be shared! My success is thanks to books like the American Gardener! All the information you'll need to get started is provided in the American Gardener, no matter what type of growing success you have had in the past you'll find tips and techniques to improve your growing success in this manual! You too can grow successfully as I have, by increasing your knowledge and putting these methods into practice today! SAY NO to dying plants and SAY YES to success now. And a FREE Mystery Bonus digital book! | 
