The Gardener's Guide to Weather and Climate - How to Understand the Weather and Make It Work for You

Zusatztext “Allaby’s guide gives both seasoned and novice gardeners enough of an overview of climatological principles to help their plants survive harsh weather and thrive in good weather.”  — Booklist “Science-geek gardeners will love this volume in the Timber Press Science for Gardener’s series.” — Publishers Weekly “Readable and timely! covering a wide range of topics from microclimates to why the growing season is getting longer.” — Pacific Northwest Magazine “Savvy gardeners keep one eye on the sky and the other on their plant beds.” — The Associated Press "Required Reading." — Country Gardens “Superlatively user-friendly! richly illustrated.” — Booklist  Top 10 in Crafts and Gardening “For an introduction to topics like ocean currents! cloud types! precipitation types! soils! and more! The Gardener’s Guide to Weather and Climate is an eclectic mix for the science-hungry gardener. Whatever the size of your garden and your ambition! keeping abreast of seasonal chores and seasonal changes is a practical concern and a comforting rhythm.” — NYBG's Plant Talk   Informationen zum Autor Michael Allaby is an enthusiastic! prolific! award-winning science writer who has written! edited! and co-authored many books on environmental science. His DK Guide to Weather won the Junior Prize of the Aventis Prizes for Science Books! and his Plants and Plant Life won Booklist Editor’s Choice. See michaelallaby.com for more information. Klappentext Make the weather work for you! You may be at the whim of a changing climate! but you don’t have to let it ruin your garden. Weather expert Michael Allaby comes to the rescue with practical advice on adapting your garden to create optimum conditions for plants. You’ll learn how weather works! how to predict different conditions! and how to make the best of meteorological highs and lows. And you’ll discover fascinating insights into climate change! cloud formation! jet streams! and much more. Introduction Anyone who cultivates plants outdoors depends on the weather, and the effects of bad weather can be dramatic. The long, cold start to 2013, for example, meant that an event held every April to demonstrate and sell mowing machinery in Dumfries, Scotland, had to be cancelled for want of grass. Bad weather destroys crops and good weather means abundant harvests. So it has been throughout history and gardeners are no less affected by the weather than farmers. There is a difference of course, in that for most gardeners a crop failure does not mean they and their families will go hungry or the creditors will come knocking at the door. Also gardeners enjoy more flexibility than is possible for farmers when deciding which plants to grow. Nevertheless, gardeners need to be able to recognize suitable conditions for sowing and planting, to know which plants to position where, and how best to help their plants survive adverse conditions. In a word, they need to understand something of how the weather works and how to predict its vagaries. Understanding the weather means that although gardeners are affected by it they need not necessarily live at its mercy. Plants are adapted to the climates in which they grow, and adapt rapidly to climatic changes, and an informed gardener may be better equipped to make appropriate choices of species, varieties, and techniques. This book aims to help. It explains, simply and succinctly, the basic principles of climatology, which is the study of climates, and meteorology, which is the study of weather, with particular reference to gardening and garden plants. The first chapter describes the principal processes by which the action of solar radiati...

Product details

• Authors: Michael Allaby
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.05.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9781604695540
• ISBN: 978-1-60469-554-0
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Science for Gardeners
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works