California Master Gardener Handbook UNABRIDGED

California Master Gardener Handbook for Master Gardener certification program. All aspects of horticulture including pest control, fertilizers are covered.

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4 Stars Good
Pages were not bent, bind was well intact and even the cover was clean and taken care of.

1 Star Complete Waste of Time and Money
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 The information it contains is outdated, incomplete, and not useful.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 Twenty five years out of date.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.

5 Stars Excellent Southwestern Gardener Information
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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