Gardening is North America's most popular leisure time activity and all gardeners are always on the look out for resources that can help them grow with their hobby. Whether an aspiring or veteran green thumb, The 2006 Old Farmer's Almanac All-Seasons Garden Guide offers time-tested and useful advice in an inspiring, full-color design with stunning photographs and easy-to-do ideas.

The 2006 Old Farmer's Almanac All-Seasons Garden Guide will hit stores on February 28 and is available for just $3.99 wherever books and magazines are sold throughout the United States and Canada. This perennial publication is a must-have for any gardener's reference library or tool shed.

"It's no surprise that gardening continues to be a popular pastime. It's an activity that can relieve stress, add value and beauty to the home, and protect the environment. With The All-Seasons Garden Guide, we address many of the different reasons people have for gardening and provide information that will help them reach their goals," says Janice Stillman, editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac All-Seasons Garden Guide.

Bursting with information on each breathtaking page, the 2006 edition offers readers information on:

• Combining the old with the new through timeless garden designs that blend herbs, edibles, and beautiful heirloom varieties.

• Growing and maintaining a lawn so that the grass will never be greener (in the neighbor's yard!).

• Building a natural fence with lush hedges and tall flowering plants that tend to be less expensive and offer more personality than wood or barbed-wire borders.

• Making the most of dependable daylilies -- the perfect plant for the perennial gardener who prefers no fuss, with 20 dazzling varieties suggested.

• Bringing the tropics to the backyard with advice on how to grow the coolest exotic offerings, including the East Asian elephant's ear and the fragrant peacock orchid.

• Flavorful flowers that any gardener can grow and any cook will love.

• Peppers that bring pizzazz to the vegetable patch.

• Thirty-six uncommon tomato varieties that come in a rainbow of colors and taste as good as -- or better than -- they look.

• The very best berries and advice on what can be grown where.

• The most important word in gardening -- and what it means in the garden. (It's 'mulch,' by the way.)

• Unconventional gardening techniques including why planting turnips in the buff may not be such a bad idea.

The Old Farmer's Almanac All-Seasons Garden Guide digs into the subjects that matter most to anyone who loves to grow flowers or vegetables. This perennial publication is one of a family of publications produced by Yankee Publishing Inc. of Dublin, New Hampshire. This magazine is available at plant nurseries, home stores, and wherever books and magazines are sold. Copies can also be ordered at Almanac.com or by calling (800) 223-3166.

The Old Farmer's Almanac line of products include several themed calendars, a series of cookbooks based on entries from county fairs and cook-offs, and, brand new in 2005, The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids.

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