The Self-Sustaining Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Matrix Planting

By Peter Thompson

Book Overview

This book explores the theme that the plants themselves can do much of the hard work gardeners believe is an essential part of gardening. The Self-Sustaining Garden advocates using plants as partners... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713481331
• ISBN13: 9780713481334
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages

Customer Reviews

Helpful book, good information

Although Peter Thompson considers matrix planting an "unorthodox" way of gardening, the concept has been around for awhile. Ann Lovejoy devoted about 20 pages to it in her book, Ann Lovejoy's Organic Garden Design School (2001), and she covers it briefly in The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening (2003). She called it sandwich planting, but it's the same as matrix planting. Peter Thompson's book provides more depth, guidance, and rationale on the topic. I use his book to complement and enhance Ann's books. The practice of layering or intermingling site-adaptive plants really makes a lot of sense. In response to reviewer, MuffieNH, below: I didn't notice the size of the font until I read her(?) review. The font is a bit smaller than some other books, but it didn't bother me. She denied herself all the helpful information in this book...