the month-by-month gardening guide: daily advice for growing flowers, vegetables, herbs, and houseplants

“this is a compendium of practical advice for the home gardener, arranged by month. the individual bits of advice for each month are arranged as follows: general advice; advice for the vegetable garden (including herbs); and advice for ornamental plants (further subdivided into the outdoor garden, terrace and balcony, and windowsill and houseplants). there is also a massive section of charts at the back of the book. the advice is applicable to u.s. gardens in zones 4-8, and is supplemented by helpful, accurate line drawings. the breadth of information presented is truly encyclopedic-every topic that a home gardener could possibly be interested in is presented somewhere in the book's pages"

franz böhmig was a commercial gardener, teacher, lecturer, and horticulture consultant based in meissen, germany. The first edition of the month-by-month gardening guide appeared in 1964 and has gone through thirty editions, making it one of the most important garden references ever published.