Cold Climate Gardening

Having written about arcane gardening topics myself (colchicums, anyone?), I understand the challenge of writing to an audience that is unfamiliar with the jargon and techniques of one’s subject, an audience with no emotional investment in the topic at hand. Giant pumpkins are brobdingnagian in size. Their growth rate is astonishing. But neither fact could hold my attention for long, if I didn’t care about the people involved with these giant fruiting bodies. In Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking, and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever, Susan Warren succeeded in making me care about these growers of giant pumpkins.

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