. Just Ask Wim! by Wim Vander Zalm, Harbour Publishing, 256 pages, $26.95
GROWING up surrounded by the family nursery, Wim Vander Zalm has been nurturing plants his whole life.
At a young age he was in charge of the nursery and found himself being asked advice on all manner of gardening concerns. Time and experience provided him with a daily classroom because if he didn't know the answer to the question he would find it out.
Vander Zalm is now ready to share the answers to the top 100 most-asked gardening questions. Starting off with a month-by-month checklist to ensure you stay on top of all the regular tasks, he then starts in with the questions.
The questions and answers are gathered together into common themes, such as vegetables, herbs, lawns, shrubs and more. Vander Zalm introduces each topic with a general description and overview before getting into the specifics of how and why.
Colour photographs appear on almost every page throughout the book, showing the individual plants being discussed as well as the procedures and structures that are described.
From very common concerns like what type of soil should you use for your containers, to more specific problems like how do you winter your dahlia bulbs, Vander Zalm does an excellent job at taking on every question.
