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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | This is the definitive guide to gardening in California! At over 700 pages, no other California gardening guide contains this depth of information. The California Master Gardener Handbook is an invaluable reference tool for all California gardeners. Chapters cover soil, fertilizer, and water management, plant propagation, plant physiology; weeds and pests; home vegetable gardening; specific garden crops including grapes, berries temperate fruits and nuts, citrus, and avocados. Also included is information on lawns, woody landscape plants, landscape design and developing problem-solving skills. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Dennis R. Pittenger | | Paperback: | 702 pages | | Publisher: | Univ of California Agriculture & Natural Resources | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2002 | | ISBN: | 1879906546 | | Package Length: | 10.9 inches | | Package Width: | 8.3 inches | | Package Height: | 1.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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38 of 51 found the following review helpful:
 Complete Waste of Time and Money Jun 15, 2008
By Sandy Gardener
"Sandy"
First, take an insular bureaucracy (University of California Davis), next mandate a comprehensive text that's dumbed down to the semi-literate level(CMGHB), then assign a group of disinterested academics to the task of writing, and this is what you get. Honestly, it gives me no pleasure slamming CMGHB, it's just that bad. The information it contains is outdated, incomplete, and not useful. This a reference book that NEVER has the answer you need. Variety information? Twenty five years out of date. Pest Info? Full of useless facts with no viable technics. If there's any consise, usable material, it's too buried in the 700 pages to find. The Sunset Western Garden Book puts CMGHB to shame, and costs about one third.
Update 4-11. The new "Grow Fruit" by DK publishing resets the bar for fruit books, while "The Vegetable Gardeners' Bible" has been the best vegetable growing resource for awhile.
More like, Master Gardener Encyclopedia. Feb 25, 2012
By Emily Blanckenburg
This book is rather less like a 'handbook', and more like an encyclopedia. Which in no way is a bad thing! The California Master Gardener Handbook has an amazing amount of information, and is written in a style that is very easy to understand. Everything from the way plants grow to specific ways of propagating and caring for them to the best plants for certain areas and purposes to diagnosing plant diseases. Excellent for both the beginner and the expert.
Even though I purchased this book for a class, I will be keeping this book in my collection, as it is one of those books that can always be useful, no matter what the situation.
 Great Sep 26, 2011
By PaigeChristine
I received the book about a week early. I was pleasantly suprised. The book was in perfect condition. I will be using them again.
7 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Southwestern Gardener Information Jun 01, 2009
By B. Peterson
This is an excellent resource book written by experts in all of the areas connected with gardening and agriculture. It is in a form that is easily accessible as to the type of information needed at any given time as well as being the basic text for the California Master Gardener course.
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