1, 2, 3… Garden With Tanya And Anna
By Tanya Visser and Anna Cilliers
Metz Press
Review: Allison MacDonald
It’s a little known fact that ordinary old garden soil brims with a species of bacteria that makes people happy. It’s true. Google it. If you want to be happy, you need to spend time digging in the garden, planting things, getting muddy and sipping lemonade while standing knee-deep (and barefoot) in compost.
This book will get you started, and then it will get you loving your patch of earth. It delivers one reassuring message on every one of its 160 pages: there is no mystique in growing a stunning garden. It’s a simple matter (like most things in life) of getting to grips with the basics, and proceeding from there.
Full of really great gardening ideas, down-to-earth advice and an evangelical passion for the soil, 1, 2, 3… Garden imparts the joy of gardening alongside the basics to get any garden bursting out in gorgeous floral colour and satisfyingly nourishing fresh produce. It has it all… from pruning to propagating to staking to watering to potting to mulching to mowing and to harvesting. It’s your ultimate gardening go-to guide.
With the plethora of gardening books out there, it’s a real treat to come across this treasure. Make it part of your gardening library. Make gardening part of your life. Both will make you happy.
The Star