Rodale Organic Gardening Book

A Rodale Organic Gardening Book Review

Gardening is very popular in most advanced nations. Many people love to grow various plants in their backyard or garden, tend to them and finally reap the fruits of their hard work.

Over the last few decades, chemicals and inorganic materials have been extensively used to make the gardens grow fast and grow better. However, recently there has been a growing trend moving towards an organic approach to gardening. There are many benefits of organic gardening and to cater for this increased interest there have been many organic gardening books in print. Rodale Organic Gardening Book is one such example.

The Rodale Organic Gardening Book is not a simple gardening book, but more like an encyclopaedia of organic gardening tips.

It is not a beginner’s book or an expert read. It caters to the whole spectrum of gardeners. Regardless of whether you are just starting your gardening hobby, or have been doing it for some years, you can still gain wealth of experience from this book.

Many people believe that organic gardens need to be started from the scratch. But the Rodale Organic Gardening Book has sections for transforming your existing gardens into organic gardens.

What the book shows is that adopting organic gardening is more about planning than actual change in your regular gardening tasks. So you can continue to do what you are doing with some pre-planning and adjustments to become well on the way to being organic.

If you like to learn more about the history of organic gardening, you will not have to look beyond this book. It has nearly 30 pages on the evolution of organic gardening.

The book provides sections on soil care, plant problems, controlling weed growth, watering plants, etc. It also touches upon lawn care, different kinds of plants you can add to your garden, and also the variety of animal life you typically see in and around your garden. Given that the fauna is an integral part of your garden, knowing about them is equally important to understand your gardening better.

Of course beside all this you also have an abundance of information about things the most common gardening books cover, i.e. growing fruits, vegetables, flowers and other plants to complete your garden.

You get vital tips on reusing your garden products to grow your garden further - be it organic fertilizers or reusing pruned plants to grow more of the same.

Talking of organic fertilizer, most gardeners know that composting is a good technique for getting some organic fertilizer, but it can take lot of time. This book gives tips of how to speed up composting so you won’t lose patience waiting for your compost to be ready and switch to chemicals.

However, given the wide range of topics that are being covered in this book, it would be impossible for it to give you an in-depth knowledge of everything related to gardening. It is a handy guide and quick reference for most organic gardening ideas and you should be able to start implementing the ideas in your garden immediately.

If you are looking for some advanced material, for some concepts you would need a more specific literature than this book can cover. This is a great introduction to that concept though.

All in all the Rodale organic gardening book is a great resource of information on organic gardening - from the history of organic gardening to growing various plants, shrubs and trees to composting and harvesting you garden.