I've just finished reading The 3,000 Mile Garden by Roger Phillips and Leslie Land. Roger, a professional gardener in London and Leslie, an American gardener, exchange letters during the year, sharing their gardening experiences. I ecpected this to be a dry read and I'd just skim through it, but I was delightfully surprised. I felt like I was reading a novel. Through their letters, we learn about their garden successes and frustrations. The struggles they each have gardening in their climate, critter problems, people problems... We've all been there. I highly recommend this enjoyable read for every gardener.
This is one of my all time favorite books. I read it again every few years - and I think I've read it at least 6 times.
ReplyDeleteWell! Three cheers for Google Alerts. Thank you Bonnie for the great review and thank you Pieceful (great name) for seconding it. Always lovely to know 3000 Mile continues to bring pleasure. Hope you'll come and visit my blog (inkitchenandgarden) to see what's happening now. Roger doesn't appear very often, all we ever seem to do is e-mail, but the rest of the cast is there, including especially my two gardens.
ReplyDeleteGreat tomato year, btw (in NY better than a lot of the more-or-less cooked flowers), though even the tomatoes are a bit dumbfounded by the heat.
Best to you both.
Leslie
Leslie, I'm glad you found my post. I will be visiting your blog. And, yes - it's a great year in NY for tomatoes!! Just had one for supper with a zucchini (I think I'm eating zucchini every day just to keep up with it!)
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