A review by carol_indygardener
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

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, nodding with recognition as Mendelson takes us through the seasons in her tiny London garden. I laughed through her descriptions of buying seeds, foraging for plums, and ignoring the standard advice found in most gardening books. I paused twice to purchase books she mentioned. Luckily Amazon told me I had already purchased one of the books in 2008 so it is now my next one to read. (Why hadn't I already read it?) I briefly contemplated leaving my Midwestern "acreage" (one-third acres, actually) to move to a tiny enclosed garden in London. Gardeners especially will enjoy this book. It will validate you. And if it doesn't? If you don't laugh and nod, but instead merely shake your head from side to side, you probably aren't a gardener. Go on to some other hobby. The rest of us gardeners will be considering the merits of Asian greens compared to old-fashioned lettuce and plotting how to get a glimpse over the garden wall of Mendelson's garden.