The Gardener's Weather Bible: How to Predict and Prepare for Garden Success in Any Kind of Weather

by Sally Roth

Book Overview

Gardeners are obsessed by the weather. They watch it, curse it, plan ahead of it and try to outsmart it. Now they will have all the information they need to cheat their local weather conditions and have great gardens no matter what comes their way. 50 two-color illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875969151
• ISBN13: 9780875969152
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

For gardeners and weather watchers alike!

The Gardener's Weather Bible, in a combination of folklore and science, explains all possible weather phenomena with basic descriptions and asides and then applies this information to gardens and to determining your own garden's microclimate. As a Rodale Press book, it guarantees you will find interesting natural notes like how placing a plant in a too windy a site can cause a "pruning" anomaly called krummholz or can keep winged pollinators like butterflies and hummingbirds from visiting.Chapters include: Weather Climate and Seasons, Developing Weather Sense, Reading the Sky, Reading the Night Sky, Winds Fronts and Storms, Rain Ice and Snow, Spring Weather, Summer Weather, Fall Weather, Winter Weather, Animal Clues to Weather, Birds Bugs and Butterflies.A great gardening book for those of us who are spending too much time on amending our soil, dividing our perennials, pruning our roses and other downward looking gardening delights. Once in a while, look to the sky!