Weathering Winter: A Gardener's Daybook Hardcover - 1997
by Carl H. Klaus
In this distinctive daybook, Carl Klaus reminds readers that winter is just as much a part of the year as the time when tulips open, tomatoes thrive, and pumpkins color brown earth. Gardeners, lovers of the outdoors, and weather watchers will recognize themselves in the ways in which Klaus comes to terms with the harsh climate and chilly truths that winter embodies.
From the rear cover
In Winter, when the only things growing seem to be icicles and irritability, what pleasures exist for a gardener or for anyone who lives in a northern climate? In his distinctive daybook Weathering Winter, Carl Klaus reminds readers that the season of brown twigs and icy gales is just as much a part of the year as when tulips open, tomatoes thrive, and pumpkins color the brown earth. From the first cold snap of late December 1994 to the first outdoor planting of onion sets and radish seeds in mid-March 1995, Klaus kept track of snow falling, birds flocking, soups simmering, gardening catalogs arriving, buds swelling, and seed trays coming to life. Gardeners, lovers of the out-of-doors, and weather watchers will recognize themselves in the ways in which Klaus has come to terms with the harsh climate and chilly truths that winter embodies. His constant, careful checks on the temperature and on the geraniums overwintering in the attic, his contentment in the basil- and garlic-flavored tomato sauce he cooked up from last season's crops, and his walks with his wife in the bitter chill of starry January nights reflect the pull between indoors and out, the contrast between the beauty and the cruelty of the season.
Details
- Title Weathering Winter: A Gardener's Daybook
- Author Carl H. Klaus
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition/ F
- Pages 184
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA
- Date 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780877455943 / 0877455945
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 5.76 x 6.28 x 0.8 in (14.63 x 15.95 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Library of Congress subjects Vegetable gardening - Iowa - Iowa City -, Gardeners - Iowa - Iowa City - Anecdotes
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97005720
- Dewey Decimal Code 635
Media reviews
Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/1997, Page 1280
- Library Journal, 10/01/1997, Page 109
- Publishers Weekly, 09/29/1997, Page 76
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