Great Garden Shortcuts is a collection of the most unique and useful gardening tips and techniques ever published - straight from the country's most successful experts and backyard gardeners. With Great Garden Shortcuts you'll save time and trouble no matter what you want from your garden and earlier tomatoes, gorgeous weed-free flowers, a quick low-maintenance hedge, or the simplest ways to keep pests away. You'll find tips like these and hundreds keep your roses looking gorgeous and healthy with a simple baking soda spray, harvest strawberries earlier by protecting fruiting buds in fall, make beautiful flower-covered trellises with morning glories or other annual vines and found objects; and give early tomatoes a heat and nitrogen boost with grass clippings.