Gardening Without Work

For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent

By: Ruth Stout

Narrated by: Kim Handysides

While everyone loves eating fresh garden produce, not everyone has the time and energy to create a productive garden. But what if growing delicious crops required hardly any effort? What if you could have succulent strawberries, perfect peas, and terrific tomatoes without needing to touch a spade, hoe, or plow - without needing to worry about irrigating, spraying, sowing a cover crop, weeding, cultivating, or building a compost pile? If that sounds good, the Stout System is the answer for you!

Ruth Stout has shown tens of thousands of gardeners how to greatly reduce their gardening workload. Let Ruth (and within a few chapters, she will feel like a friend!) show you how you can rejuvenate the soil and make your fruits, vegetables, and flowers thrive with low-maintenance mulch gardening.

Widely renowned as a gardening expert (and sister of the famed mystery writer Rex Stout), Ruth Stout wrote extensively about how to simplify gardening. Her techniques have brought people from all over the world to her garden, and now her advice can help you maximize your garden's output with minimal effort. In addition to the time-saving tips provided, Stout's joyous perspective on life and gardening makes this book a delight and is a must-read for anyone growing food or flowers.

This audio edition of Gardening Without Work is wonderfully read by award-winning narrator Kim Handysides and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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Words Written Over Half a Century Ago, But Truly Relevant

Loved the straightforward, rational wisdom. A practical and healthy approach to resilient vegetable and flower gardening.

Sound garden advice that we should have never abandoned.

Humorous and very wise advice. Outstanding writer! Ruth Stout method is simple genius and is applicable today and forever.

Language use of a different era

It's a good book. also contains good advice on how not to be an idiot.

Can’t wait to try it!

Great ideas and an entertaining read. There seems to be a lot of expertise and wisdom behind Stout’s methods.

Foremost: Entertaining, Secondarily: educational

I enjoyed listening to this content so much I didn’t hear what was said so that I’ll be playing it over.