ROCKY MOUNTAIN GARDEN SURVIVAL GUIDE
Ecology for gardeners!

By Susan J. Tweit

$12.95, Softcover, 121 pages
1-55591-507-8

Fulcrum Publishing

The instruction manual that should have come with your yard.



For regional garden guides, the Rocky Mountain Garden Survival Guide is tops.
--BellaOnline

Cool Tool! . . . Explains the ecology of the Western garden and offers tips on plant choice, garden design and maintenance.
--Boulder Daily Camera

. . . Offers easy-to-follow tips on dealing with gardening challenges.
--Albuquerque Journal

Packed with the basics of garden ecology and design, minimizing the effects of extreme weather and fighting weeds and pests without chemicals.
--Colorado Homes and Lifestyles

Gotta' Have It!
--Colorado Springs Gazette

 

From the book:

You can identify a Rocky Mountain gardener by the stories they tell: the wet spring snow that caused prized trees and shrubs to collapse, the grasshoppers that mowed down the emerging vegetable sprouts, the July hail that flattened every flower in the garden, the deer that munched the columbines, the winter winds that toppled the spruce in the front yard.

Gardening in this scenic but difficult region is all about weather. Like a good cutting horse or a high-tech mountain bike, Rocky Mountain weather can turn on a dime, from drought to deluge, from searing heat to sub-freezing cold, from calm to roaring Chinooks. Weather is not a Rocky Mountain gardeners only challenge, however: the region's spectacular scenery makes for topographic trials and soils that are by and large undeveloped; the region's arid climate means that watered and fertilized gardens are a magnet for diners from microbes to moose. Add an increasing number of invasive weeds, the reality of water shortages, and the threat of global climate change, and painting the yard green begins to seem very attractive.

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