You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening by Gayla Trail, Gayla Sanders

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  • Pub. Date: March 2005
  • 208pp
  • Sales Rank: 87,557

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    • Pub. Date: March 2005
    • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
    • Format: Paperback, 208pp
    • Sales Rank: 87,557

    Synopsis

    This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality.

    Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com, provides guidance for both beginning and intermediate gardeners with engaging tips, projects, and recipes — whether you have access to a small backyard or merely to a fire escape. You Grow Girl eliminates the intimidation factor and reveals how easy and enjoyable it can be to cultivate plants and flowers even when resources and space are limited. Divided into accessible sections like Plan, Plant, and Grow, You Grow Girl takes readers through the entire gardening experience:

    • Preparing soil

    • Nurturing seedlings

    • Fending off critters

    • Reaping the bounty

    • Readying plants for winter

    • Preparing for the seasons ahead

    Gayla also includes a wealth of ingenious and creative projects, such as:

    • Transforming your garden's harvest into lush bath and beauty products

    • Converting household junk into canny containers

    • Growing and bagging herbal tea

    • Concocting homemade pest repellents

    ...and much, much more.

    Witty, wise, and as practical as it is stylish, You Grow Girl is guaranteed to show you how to get your garden on. All you need is a windowsill and a dream!

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    Reaching a new audience, this gardening book is as fresh and funky as the web site that inspired it. A professional print designer before turning to web design, Trail couldn't find gardening information geared toward young, hip, frugal, urban gardeners like herself, so she used her skills to create YouGrowGirl.com in early 2000. Like the acclaimed site, the book is artsy but informative. Highly appropriate for beginners, it covers the basics of planning, planting, growing, harvesting, and reflecting on your garden successes. Trail's organic and inexpensive methods for growing flowers, food, and herbs are practical for postage stamp-sized yards or even city fire escapes. Interspersed are offbeat projects like pest prophylactics, home-sewn tea bags, and a garden memory journal made of recycled materials. The creative design uses a nice combination of drawings and photos, while the author's edgy attitude and language are reminiscent of clever, suburban garden writer Cassandra Danz. Though other organic gardening books are prevalent, this introduction is recommended to public libraries catering particularly to twentysomethings and small-space gardeners.-Bonnie Poquette, Milwaukee Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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    Biography

    Gayla Trail created her acclaimed gardening website,YouGrowGirl.com, in 2000. A graphic designer, writer, photographer, and gardener, she has contributed to BUST and ReadyMade magazines as a gardening guru. She lives in Toronto.

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    September 07, 2005: I bought this book intending to give it as a gift to my mother but I loved it so much I decided to keep it. This book is full of the most interesting and useful ideas and tips that are not commonly found in other gardening books like growing your cat her own garden, or growing your own herbal tea garden, you even learn how to grow your own loofah bath scrub. How cool is that? You will also find your usual gardening stuff, but it's the unusual that I found most interesting.