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The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book: Secrets of the Famous Year Round Mulch Method (Mulch Queen) Paperback – June 9, 2021

by Ruth Stout (Author), Richard Clemence (Author), Steven Siler (Editor)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
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Can 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.


If 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.
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    Ruth Stout Classics
  2. Print length
    220 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    12 Sirens
  5. Publication date
    June 9, 2021
  6. Dimensions
    7.5 x 0.46 x 9.25 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1927458366
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1927458365
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ 12 Sirens (June 9, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1927458366
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1927458365
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.46 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 123 ratings

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Vi
5.0 out of 5 stars Ruth Stout is amazing
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2021
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Ruth is a wiz at comedy and frankness that it so pleasant. She is never boring. I am so grateful to those that are republishing her work. Gardening has lost a lot with her passing away. oh..... And her method works. Period. It works. Like she says... Give it 3 years to correct what is bad about your garden.
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Vicki Fisher
5.0 out of 5 stars Great information!
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2023
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Bought this book for my
Husband. We live in Texas. The summer time is three digits….very hot! He used four bales of straw in his vegetable garden and so far so good! Would recommend this book.
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BGriffiths
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book.
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022
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I have been a gardener for 40 years. There was a lot to learn in this easy to understand book. Loaded with information. I will be taking out my raised beds to make more planting room and have already started layering between my beds. I have walked in the pathways for 16 years. Tonight I moved back some layers and was shocked to see the amount of worms and nice soft soil. This ground was hard packed just a month ago.
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Mona
5.0 out of 5 stars I started the deep mulch row last fall. I looked under the mulch today and found WORMS!
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2022
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I am very glad that I am trying the deep mulch garden method. My garden is full of worms and the soil is wet , workable and no weeds.
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Anna N.
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, odd print edition
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
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The content of this book is great, but the print edition is off. The text runs together with no clear page breaks for chapters. It’s hard to navigate.
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jolit
5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I heard of this a few years ago
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022
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She explained how well her system worked for her. I made 2new raised gardens using left over lumber and wood ties. Picked up top soil and compost in my truck and shoveled it out, tilled the soil myself... Oh and as its 2022 and there are still shortages of peat moss, I had to call around For that too! So much work! Then I saw a YouTube video, Back to Reality and learned about Ruth s Method.. I was hooked and tried it on potatoes and asparagus and beans a few weeks ago. Hope it works!
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Iukika
5.0 out of 5 stars My Kind of Gardener
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2023
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Plants frighten me because I kill plants more than grow them. But I always dream of being a gardener. The author is fun and her way of gardening motivates me and makes me hopeful.
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Caroline
2.0 out of 5 stars Not very informative
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2023
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I wanted to like this book so much. I love the idea of deep mulch, and wanted to learn more. However, this book is largely anecdotal. The only real message I got out of it is that you should mulch everything you plant with lots of hay, no need for fertilizer, compost, or anything else. She doesn't know why it works, but the results are great, according to her stories. Stout even says early in the book that this is not a book where she shares her secrets, because she assumes people want to figure things out for themselves. She also says that much of the information in the book contradicts itself because she's learned and changed how she does things, and this is a compliation of writings over the course of many years. But again, she won't update it to make her recommendations correct, because people don't just want the answers, they want to figure it out for themselves. I was looking for best practices and advice, so this book wasn't for me.
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joy
5.0 out of 5 stars good information
Reviewed in Canada on August 24, 2021
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But, have some impatience with the tiresome rambling.
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Dextra
1.0 out of 5 stars WRONG BOOK right cover!
Reviewed in Canada on December 29, 2021
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WRONG BOOK inside.
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