From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden
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Amy Stewart., & Amy Stewart|AUTHOR. (2000). From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden . Algonquin Books.

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Amy Stewart and Amy Stewart|AUTHOR. 2000. From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden. Algonquin Books.

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Amy Stewart and Amy Stewart|AUTHOR. From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden Algonquin Books, 2000.

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Amy Stewart, and Amy Stewart|AUTHOR. From the Ground Up: The Story of a First Garden Algonquin Books, 2000.

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 Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She yearned for a garden filled with colorful jumbles of vegetables and flowers. After she and her husband finished graduate school, they pulled up their Texas roots and headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they rented a modest seaside bungalow with a small backyard. It wasn't much-a twelve-hundred-square-foot patch of land with a couple of fruit trees, and a lot of dirt. A good place to start. 
	From the Ground Up is Stewart's quirky, humorous chronicle of the blossoms and weeds in her first garden and the lessons she's learned the hard way. From planting seeds her great-grandmother sends to battling snails, gophers, and aphids, Stewart takes us on a tour of four seasons in her coastal garden. Confessing her sins and delighting in small triumphs, she dishes the dirt for both the novice and the experienced gardener. Along the way, she brings her quintessential California beach town to life-complete with harbor seals, monarch butterfly migrations, and an old-fashioned seaside amusement park just down the street.
	Each chapter includes helpful tips alongside the engaging story of a young woman's determination to create a garden in which the plants struggle to live up to the gardener's vision. 
	 Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden Rant and is a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine. She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer. When she isn't writing, she's making art, which you can see on Instagram, or teaching art and writing classes online.   I. PROLOGUE: Planting the Seed
	  BREAKING GROUND
	  First Garden (7)
	  Weeds (17)
	  Neighbors (29)
	  Cats (39)
	  Dirt (55)
	  First Harvest (69)
	  Seeds (78)
	  Compost (90)
	  Oranges and Roses (104)
	  Manual Labor (115)
	  A GROWING SEASON
	  Tourists (133)
	  Insects, Good and Bad (145)
	  Houseplants (160)
	  Clearing a Path (168)
	  First Visitors (185)
	  Tomatoes (204)
	  Basil (217)
	  Surplus Produce (224)
	  Fall Migration (233)
	  EPILOGUE: Starting Over (243)
	  Letter to the Next Gardener at 118 Buena Vista (257)
	  Advance Praise for From the Ground UP
	  "An adventure story, charmingly told, in which a young woman is bitten by the gardening bug, tills her plot for the sheer joy of it, and emerges with here own personal gardening style." (BARBARA DAMROSCH, author of The Garden Primer and Theme Gardens
	  "A treasure trove of delightful stories, filled with wit, wisdom, and know-how for all gardens-a rare horticultural treat." (CARL H. KLAUS, author of My Vegetable Love and Weathering Winter)
	  "An amusing tale." (CYNTHIA KLING, Garden Design)
	  "Every gardener starts out blissfully innocent-and woefully ignorant. Amy Stewart lets us share her journey through all the mishaps and discoveries of gardeners and make the trip informative, honest, enjoyable, totally worthwhile, and, at times, outright hilarious!" (PAT STONE, editor, GreenPrints magazine)
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