Jeff Gillman
Autor de The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Sobre El Autor
Jeff Gillman is a research scientist and instructor at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the author of a number of acclaimed books, including The Truth About Organic Gardening.
Obras de Jeff Gillman
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20thc
- Género
- male
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Educación
- University of Georgia (MS|Entomology)
University of Georgia (PhD|Horticulture) - Ocupaciones
- associate professor (University of Minnesota)
- Biografía breve
- [from Fine Gardening magazine website]
Jeff Gillman is director of the University of North Carolina Charlotte Botanical Gardens. With a master's degree in entomology, a Ph.D. in horticulture from the University of Georgia, and more than 30 years of experience researching weed, disease, and insect pest management, you might say he knows a thing or two about gardening. Prior to moving to North Carolina, Jeff spent 15 years as an associate professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of five books on gardening and the environment and is a well-respected lecturer across the country. When he's not teaching, testing, trialing, and researching all things gardening, you'll find Jeff enjoying the best barbecue in town.
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If you're a scientific-minded gardener who enjoys knowing not only if advice you hear is true or not, but also why, this is the reference for you! Decoding Gardening Advice explores all sorts of well-intentioned tips--till your vegetable garden every year, use gravel or rocks at the bottom of containers to improve drainage, release ladybugs into your garden to help control pests, add phosphorus to increase bloom and stimulate rooting, do not divide shrubs, leave grass clippings on the lawn after mowing, etc.--and reveals the science that proves whether the advice is good, debatable, or just plain wrong. And even if you're not particularly the analytical sort, this handy, engagingly written guide will help all your horticultural efforts yield the best possible results!… (más)
Occasionally useful, somewhat fluffy. The concept sounds good, but the implementation faltered from time to time. Each section states a common(?) bit of gardening advice - from "put eggshells in the soil around tomatoes" to "plant in the dark of the moon" - and discusses what parts are good advice, possibly useful in certain circumstances (with a very little discussion of what sort of circumstances) and what are bad ideas, or at least not good ones (that is, what is more effort than the result is worth or what might actually damage your plants or soil). The explanations give at least a quick skim of _why_ something might be good advice (eggshells contain calcium, which wards off the common problem of blossom end rot in tomatoes) or bad advice. I got a few bits of advice that were new to me, a few that I'd heard and was pleased to find out the why behind them, and an awful lot of stuff labeled bad advice that I couldn't imagine anyone believing. For the useful bits, it was good, but it took some digging to get the useful bits out.… (más)
Might be a useful text in an undergrad enviro politics course. The book is very accessible and presents both sides of each issue relatively fairly. The book spends an inordinate amount of time on agriculture and plant-related environmental issues, probably because one author is a horticulturalist. Even the alternative energy chapter is focused on ethanol. What about topics like waste reduction, energy efficiency, mercury pollution, and the like?
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- 5
- Miembros
- 278
- Popularidad
- #83,543
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 19
- Idiomas
- 1
Makes me believe that next year is whole 'nother ballgame with growing my own vegetables.