A review by katyboo52
Rhapsody in Green: A Writer, an Obsession, a Laughably Small Excuse for a Vegetable Garden: A novelist, an obsession, a laughably small excuse for a vegetable garden by Charlotte Mendelson

5.0

This reads like a series of articles, which means that you can dip into these whenever you have a spare five minutes. The author takes us on a circuitous journey through her obsession with gardening and the complications of doing it in a tiny, city space. If she were interested in growing flowers this wouldn't be too much of a problem but her passion is for things you. can eat, and for that you need space, or the ability to focus on one crop and be delighted with eating kale 12 months a year. Mendelson does not do this. Her obsession and passion cause her to sprint from new thing to new thing, always trying something out, always experimenting and rarely, it seems, getting anything she grows to produce enough to feed even one person. If you're a keen gardener you will delight in this as Mendelson, despite her protestations, clearly knows her stuff. If you're an amateur and you're hoping for tips, I think you'll find plenty of warnings of what not to do and as you progress you can recall just how bonkers some of this gardening really is.