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First published in 1961, \"Gardening Without Work\" expands upon her mulching methods for easy gardening and details in an easy-to-understand format exactly how to begin and maintain an effortless garden. Written with her trademark humor and wit, Stout shows readers how to get the most out of gardening with less effort and time so that you are free to enjoy both a productive garden and all the fun that life has to offer. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358198563039,"sku":"9781420970685","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uv_AxKbyWT9781420970685.webp?v=1788951375"},{"product_id":"gardening-without-work-for-the-aging-the-busy-and-the-indolent-paperback","title":"Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, The Busy and the Indolent - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 70 years ago, Ruth Stout, an irrepressible gardener, began penning articles detailing a system of less work, more vegetables. Little did she know that 70 years later, this \"Mulch Queen\" would be a pioneer, demystifying gardening for young and old alike.In this classic book, Ruth covers the ground, literally, from prepping soil to recipes for your homegrown vegetables. Everything she shares she has observed from personal experience. Along the way, you will see her wry humor and learn how she developed her system, both philosophically and scientifically. In addition, there are rare photos of Ruth at work and play, as well as over 200 gardening trivia notes. And you truly will learn that there is Gardening Without Work!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358198595807,"sku":"9798500517111","price":16.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ILFHMli_X89798500517111_ab528185-f626-42dc-8180-8d70cd8bbcfd.webp?v=1788951375"},{"product_id":"the-ruth-stout-no-work-garden-book-secrets-of-the-famous-year-round-mulch-method-paperback","title":"The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year Round Mulch Method - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCan you really have a productive garden without plowing, hoeing, weeding, cultivating, and all the other bothersome rituals that most gardeners suffer through every growing season? \"Sure,\" says Ruth Stout, a prolific author and writer at 80 years young. The reason that Ruth can throw away her spade and hoe and do her gardening from a couch is a year-round mulch covering, 6 to 8 inches thick, that covers her garden like a blanket. Thousands of curious gardeners have visited her Redding, Connecticut garden, including university scientists and horticulture experts. The experts have been dazzled by the technique used by the queen of mulch! But the results of 41 years of gardening experience can't be denied. The Ruth Stout No-Work Gardening Book gives Ruth's unique advice on growing techniques and tells how she has escaped the bugaboos that haunt most gardeners. Her poison-free method of combating slugs and other insects, her scheme for growing tasty vegetables all year, her method of foiling both drought and frost -- these and many other growing secrets are revealed -- secrets that have brought this perky organic gardener season after season of growing pleasure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you're tired of being a slave to your garden, yet still want to enjoy it without the bother of sprays, weeding, hoeing or other toilsome garden chores, The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Books has the information you need. It's completely tested gardening method, perfected during more than 40 years experience and reported in the pages of Organic Gardening magazine, eliminates gardening strain and toil, and does it organically with no dangerous chemical fertilizers or toxic sprays. Take it easy. Put nature to work in your garden.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358198694111,"sku":"9781927458365","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DVEnCZ5NF79781927458365.webp?v=1788951376"},{"product_id":"how-to-have-a-green-thumb-without-an-aching-back-a-new-method-of-mulch-gardening-paperback","title":"How to have a green thumb without an aching back: A new method of mulch gardening - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdopt the Revolutionary Non-Plow Method of Gardening\u003cstrong\u003eAs Featured in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout a tractor and with an impatience to get her seeds planted for the season, Ruth Stout stumbled upon an unorthodox way to sow her garden: rather than plowing the earth, she would simply make her seedling rows in between mounds of compost she had lain over the previous fall and winter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her endearing and folksy voice, Stout tells the tale of her move in 1930 from New York City to a 55-acre farm in the rural Connecticut hamlet of Poverty Hollow. With little experience and a cast of helpers and advisors, she tells the story of a woman's toiling, making mistakes, and learning the pastime of gardening. In the spring of 1944, she experienced an epiphany that would chart a new method of planting: \"Throw away your spade and hoe.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Have a Green Thumb\u003c\/em\u003e is an infectious narrative of lessons learned and practical advice for anyone not afraid to get their hands dirty in pursuit of a bountiful and healthy garden. It provides practical advice on dealing with pests, a catalogue of the common vegetable varieties and flowering plants, and, of course, mulching. It is a book that any gardener will treasure and refer to again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1648373526).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358444749023,"sku":"9781648373534","price":27.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/y5Dvmf1Bik9781648373534.webp?v=1788955272"},{"product_id":"company-coming-six-decades-of-hospitality-paperback","title":"Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Guess who's coming to dinner?\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith Ruth Stout, you never knew! Would it be sweet-tempered temperance activist, Carrie Nation, who smashed the windows of illegal saloons with a hatchet? Would it be her younger brother, Rex Stout, who finagled his way onto Teddy Roosevelt's presidential yacht and later became famous for his Nero Wolfe mysteries? Would it be Dr. Poulin, the famous hypnotist? Simple-living guru Scott Nearing? Not to mention friends, neighbors, starving artists, and refugees.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRuth Stout tells the story of her life in terms of who showed up for dinner, and she describes the way she and her husband Fred turned their barn into simple visitor accommodations, turning guests into neighbors and avoiding Ben Franklin's maxim that \"fish and visitors stink after three days.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe main flaw of this book is that it's too short! Major events like Ruth's work in Russia during the great famine in the Twenties are mentioned only briefly, and when we realize that the New York brownstone that they lived in for a while became Nero Wolfe's house in her brother Rex's detective stories, we'd like fuller descriptions and, if possible, floor plans!\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut for everything that isn't there, there's something that is, making the book funny and wise and full of surprises, like all of Ruth's writing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRuth Stout was a beloved advocate of simple living and organic gardening, and her books, including \u003cem\u003eGardening Without Work, \u003c\/em\u003e popularized her style of simple living to millions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCompany Coming\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1958, and is volume 2 of our Ruth Stout Classics series. 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