Gardening Without Work, Ruth Stout
Gardening Without Work, Ruth Stout
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Gardening Without Work
For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent

Author: Ruth Stout

Narrator: Kim Handysides

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/26/2024

Categories: Nonfiction, Gardening


Synopsis

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. Public Domain (P)2021 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carlie on July 23, 2009

This is a lovely, homespun, very readable book was well worth my time. Ruth Stout is a very unpretentious but helpful gardening goddess. She likes her soil just the way God made it, doesn't care much for fussy gardening techniques and isn't very up on the latest do dads you can get down at that fanc......more

Goodreads review by Unbridled Reader on March 28, 2021

When I tried to explain to a friend about who Ruth Stout was and how hilarious this book was, she looked at me with a blank stare. I have a reputation for reading just about anything that's put in front of me, but this was an intentional purchase. The term 'Ruth Stout System' was referenced on YouTu......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on November 05, 2014

First published in 1961 when the author was in her late 70s, this book expounds on her philosophy that by constant heavy mulching, gardening can be mastered without weeds, without tilling, without "work." Anyone who has ever walked in a forest or wooded area can tell that nature's system of dropping......more

Goodreads review by Jeanna on April 14, 2021

I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in gardening or thinks gardening is too much work to be worth it. Her casual, articulate and witty tone reminded me of Alice Thomas Ellis; they both wrote weekly columns. This was such a delightful read I didn't even feel like I was reading a gardening......more

Goodreads review by honeybean on June 24, 2019

I am completely in love with Ruth Stout. This woman is so sassy, and makes gardening rationally easy. Thank you for the idea of wood ashes over fertilizer to fend off bugs as well as neutralize soil. Related but not, when describing Stout to a friend, they recalled seeing a video of her before "thro......more