Mulching It Over
Perenyi, Eleanor
Mulching It Over GREEN THOUGHTS. A WRITER IN THE GARDEN by Eleanor Perenyi Random House. 289 pp. $15.50. The author, an editor and writer, grew up in Europe, China, the West Indies, and...
...In a serious aside, she poses the threat to world agriculture as we run out of germ plasm in our over-development of hybrids...
...She dislikes pesticides, commercial fertilizers, power mowers and gadgets, and most garden tools...
...She finds the new sugar snap peas less tender than the old Lincoln variety and believes canned beets are better than fresh...
...In the belief that people should pass on what they have learned, in Green Thoughts Eleanor Perenyi presents a practical, informal account of her experiences as an amateur gardener fof thirty years in Stonington, Connecticut...
...She is frank about her failures with flowers, vegetables, and fruit and has distinctive tastes and opinions...
...The author, an editor and writer, grew up in Europe, China, the West Indies, and different parts of the United States and lived in Hungary for several years after her marriage at nineteen...
...Her father was a naval officer, her mother Grace Zaring Stone (Ethel Vance...
...A keen observer and individualist, Eleanor Perenyi writes with wit and wisdom...
...While she is not a health faddist, she is a firm believer in homemade compost and lauds the pioneering research of J.I...
...She is well-versed in the history and literature of gardening and delights in digressing to weave them in...
...Rodale and his Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening...
...A selective list of nursery catalogs is included...
...She likes companion planting, early harvesting of vegetables, and simplicity of design...
Vol. 45 • December 1981 • No. 12
