All the Dirt on Gardening

Joy Bossi earned a degree in Botany and went on to teach at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She followed that career with work in a nursery, television and radio gardening programs, garden consulting and now a book. Here's a link to her website, Joy in the Garden . Collaborating with Karen Bastow, Bossi summarized her experiences, thoughts and ideas about gardening into a paperback that runs 144-pages. According to this Utah article , Bastow is a humanitarian gardener who has worked in Kenya. Both are Master Gardeners. Anyone who wants to garden in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions would do well to grab a copy of this easy to read volume. Even if you aren't in her planting zone, Bossi give really good tips. "When you cover your soil with 2+ inches of good compost, every time it rains or you irrigate, a mild compost tea is produced. From the plant roots to the microbes, that tea will make every soil body happy!" "A tree on the north gives your neig...