The 5-Minute Gardener: How to Plan, Create, and Sustain a Low-Maintenance Garden

With a little preparation and a few minutes a day, new or experienced gardeners can have a colorful flower garden and a bounty of vegetables with this fun and handy manual. Readers interested in a successful flower garden learn how to choose low-care perennials and annuals as well as develop blueprints, analyze the soil, and choose the right equipment. A productive vegetable garden can be achieved with low-care, high-yield vegetables as well as efficiently mulching and fertilizing the soil and the effective control of pests and disease. Useful, easy-to-follow information on the basics of efficient gardening ensures that even the most harried gardener gets their planting off to the right start.