Gardening Without Work
For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent
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Kim Handysides
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Ruth Stout
About this listen
While everyone loves eating fresh garden produce, not everyone has the time and energy to create a productive garden. But what if growing delicious crops required hardly any effort? What if you could have succulent strawberries, perfect peas, and terrific tomatoes without needing to touch a spade, hoe, or plow - without needing to worry about irrigating, spraying, sowing a cover crop, weeding, cultivating, or building a compost pile? If that sounds good, the Stout System is the answer for you!
Ruth Stout has shown tens of thousands of gardeners how to greatly reduce their gardening workload. Let Ruth (and within a few chapters, she will feel like a friend!) show you how you can rejuvenate the soil and make your fruits, vegetables, and flowers thrive with low-maintenance mulch gardening.
Widely renowned as a gardening expert (and sister of the famed mystery writer Rex Stout), Ruth Stout wrote extensively about how to simplify gardening. Her techniques have brought people from all over the world to her garden, and now her advice can help you maximize your garden's output with minimal effort. In addition to the time-saving tips provided, Stout's joyous perspective on life and gardening makes this book a delight and is a must-read for anyone growing food or flowers.
This audio edition of Gardening Without Work is wonderfully read by award-winning narrator Kim Handysides and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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- Backwoods_Blacksmith
- 06-13-24
Language use of a different era
It's a good book. also contains good advice on how not to be an idiot.
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- OC mom
- 02-21-23
Very interesting as a beginner organic gardener
The concept of time saving gardening is why I downloaded this book. Many guides suggest mulching. Now I understand the why and advantages. good timing as I happened to be building planter beds as read this book. Ruth talks alot but I liked learning about her history and her gardening journey. She lived into her 90s so she must have been doing something right!
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- Erika
- 06-22-24
Surprisingly entertaining
I wasn’t expecting this style of obtaining gardening wisdom but it was equal parts helpful and entertaining. Ruth Stout definitely had an inspiring attitude about making life less complicated..
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- Joan
- 12-15-22
A wonderful way to garden
I have been gardening in a similar way except, I had not used hay. I enjoyed hearing about how productive her gardens were. I will be adding hay in the spring.
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- Christine
- 03-16-23
Very much Enjoyed!!
Definitely happy with this purchase!! I had never heard of this method, but wow!! I am definitely trying this out!!!!
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- Jennifer S Wilkinson
- 10-24-24
Words Written Over Half a Century Ago, But Truly Relevant
Loved the straightforward, rational wisdom. A practical and healthy approach to resilient vegetable and flower gardening.
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- K. Shea
- 10-26-23
Can’t wait to try it!
Great ideas and an entertaining read. There seems to be a lot of expertise and wisdom behind Stout’s methods.
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- Linda N.
- 01-05-24
Foremost: Entertaining, Secondarily: educational
I enjoyed listening to this content so much I didn’t hear what was said so that I’ll be playing it over.
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- Joan
- 05-11-22
A gem of information & entertainment
Witty, charming, timeless, refreshing and incredibly informative. We need more people like Ruth Stout. I’m hooked!
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- Jeff Browning
- 04-03-21
Less work seems like a no brainer
Always amazes me when my friends and family (most of whom have the same or more education the I) blow this off. Some claim there is no way it can be as good as chemicals without even considering the option. Amazing that this argument has gone on so long.
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