Garden expert and lovable eccentric Ruth Stout once said: At the age of 87 I grow vegetables for two people the year-round, doing all the work myself and freezing the surplus.
This is the book that began it all...from her choice of Poverty Hollow, to being gifted topsoil from the road construction, to a complete description of hints, successes, failures, and everything that goes into having a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back!.
Or try to; the dentist has had twenty-three copies stolen, the doctor, sixteen.
She reports, A dentist in Pennsylvania and a doctor in Oregon Have both written me that they keep a copy of my garden book in their waiting rooms.
I tend several flower beds, write a column every week, answer an awful lot of mail, do the housework and cooking-and never do any of these things after 11 o\'clock in the morning! This, her first book about her no-work Gardening system: How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back, was the kind of book people can\'t bear to return.
Garden expert and lovable eccentric Ruth Stout once said: At the age of 87 I grow vegetables for two people the year-round, doing all the work myself and freezing the surplus
