And Last-Minute Stocking Stuffers
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- December
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Looking for a last-minute stocking stuffer for a gardener? Try one of the slender All-Region guide books that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been writing and publishing since 1945. You can’t beat the price: $9.95.
This year, the Botanic Garden added three titles to its rich list of 188 handbooks:
• “Buried Treasures: Tasty Tubers of the World� by Beth Hanson et al. This is the Botanic Garden’s first handbook devoted to root vegetables and more than 30 edible tubers are included here, with growing tips and recipes.
• “Gardening with Children� by Monika Hannemann, Patricia Hulse, Brian Johnson, Barbara Kurland and Tracey Patterson. This hands-on array of more than 40 gardening activities is aimed at adults with 6- to-10-year-old children. Older children can enjoy the book on their own.
• “The Tree Care Primer� by Christopher Roddick with Beth Hanson. This comprehensive guide includes everything from matching trees to sites to pruning and long-term care. I particularly like the section on nursery and tool sources.
The easy-to-follow primers are 120 pages long, with lots of full-color photos and graphics. Find the books at local bookstores and garden centers or online at www.bbg.org or by calling 718-623-7286.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
