Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She yearned for a garden filled with colorful jumbles of vegetables and flowers. After she and her husband finished graduate school, they pulled up their Texas roots and headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets,...
Amy Stewart had a simple dream: She wanted a garden. From the Ground Up is Stewart's chronicle of the seedlings and weeds, cats and compost, worms and watering that transformed a plot into a glorious garden. Delighting in triumphs and confessing to gardening sins, Stewart dishes...
Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She wanted a garden. When she and her husband finished graduate school, they headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they found a modest seaside cottage with a small backyard. It wasn't much--a twelve-hundred-square-foot...