Complete Guide to Florida Gardening

by Stan DeFreitas

Book Overview

The first new edition in ten years of the bible of Florida gardening. Addressing the needs of gardening novices, seasoned hobbyists, and horticultural professionals alike, the author created a reference book that no Florida gardener should be without.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878335722
• ISBN13: 9780878335725
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Complete Guide to Fl Gardening - Great Resource

Very nice guide to help plan, plant and maintain flowers or harvest home grown edibles from your own garden. In depth descriptions of soil preparation, plant selection as well as propagation techniques and when to plant your seedlings for the best results. Graphs, color photos and step by step instructions are big asset to help even the novice gardener understand how to get started and maintain a beautiful garden..

even better than the revised edition

i have a fairly extensive florida gardening library. i borrowed this book & found it one of the best reference books i have ever used. after purchasing the revised edition, i found that though out-of-print, it is still far superior than anything else available.

Excellent resource for the 'green thumbs' of Florida

I found this book to be an excellent resource for gardening in Florida. My job allows me to have significant free time, so I was able to read this book about 6 hours a day. What I gleened from it was invaluable information about how to get your lawn looking as green as possible, healthy and mature. I very nice side benefit to having the best lawn on the block is being able to impress the ladies (and Sandip) with it. I cant count the number of times that I got a side benefit from my lawn.

STAN DEFREITAS IS THE BEST FOR GARDENING! GREAT!!!

Im new to florida and got some advice from a friend about contacting my local Horticulture Extension Service, and when I told them I had dozens of questions about gardening and was looking for a self help guide to Florida Gardening, they had only name for me, "STAN DEFREITAS!" I thought one guy for entire state, come on? Well, after I bought the book I soon realized this guy put together a miniature enclyclopedia of do's and don'ts for The Entire State of Florida and it's easy to read. Before I plant it, I check with the book and I never have had problem! Enough said! A twenty dollar investment a the rest of my life a succesful gardener! Thanks Stan Way to Go!

NEED ONE FLORIDA GARDENING BOOK? MAKE IT THIS ONE

I've looked at, bought, perused many books on Florida gardening and this is one of the best. Technical enough yet informative for the layman. If you only have one book on Florida gardening, you can't beat this one for the price.