The somewhat provocative title could initially be misunderstood. This book is not about naturally comfortable or lazy people who are taught how to keep their gardens in order. The author describes how, with a little intelligence and a little knowledge of allotment and NATURAL gardening, it is possible to ensure that the work between beds, fruit trees, garden ponds and greenhouses does not get excessively out of hand and that the yields are still generous.
Which gardening book is the recommended book tip in January?
Our garden book tip for January is “Best of – The Garden for Intelligent Lazy People” by Karl Ploberger. The book offers a natural approach to garden design, practical tips for mixed crops and ideas for gentle soil cultivation on 272 pages.
The “Best of” version of the guide series, which has been firmly established on the market for over 15 years, is not at all suitable for perfectionists who are only concerned with arranging their daisies and bluebells neatly in a row or who immediately hyperventilate. when they discover a vole between their climbing roses, which have been meticulously trimmed to 1.50 meters.
Karl Ploberger, THE organic gardener from Austria, was already involved in “gardening” at the tender age of six and inspires his readers to create skilful, clever disorder based on the model of a combination of a cottage garden and a flower meadow. Nevertheless, the reader learns right from the first pages that planning is everything, even for the not necessarily low-maintenance natural garden. The 272 pages (print edition) of the book from Cadmos Verlag, which was published in March 2017, are all about natural garden design. The reader will be given countless practical ideas for creating mixed crops after learning how gentle tillage can even eliminate the need for digging.
You are not holding a traditional gardening book in your hands, which is based on a scientifically organized table of contents according to all botanical rules. It is more of a magazine that encourages readers to dog-ear the information and book passages that are particularly useful to them or, better yet, to insert notepads into the most important pages so that they can pick them up again and again when necessary. Whether the “7 steps to a slightly different garden” or Ploberger’s message “A mixed bag is half the job done” – with chapters of this type it quickly becomes apparent that a convinced practitioner is “speaking” here. He encourages you to think and rethink, doesn't patronize, and takes his readers by the hand in a friendly way to garden with nature and not against it. Ten interesting chapters, each with basic knowledge, successful photos (and graphics), lots of practical tips for first aid and reader questions, make “Best of – The Garden for Intelligent Lazy People” an informative guide in which even experienced leisure gardeners find many valuable and easy-to-implement suggestions received first hand.