How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back

<p>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. 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!</p><p><br></p><p>This her first book about her no-work gardening system: <em>How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back</em> was the kind of book people can't bear to return. 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. Or try to; the dentist has had twenty-three copies stolen the doctor sixteen.</p><p><br></p><p>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!</p>