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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Best-selling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting fresh vegetables. You'll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer's...
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Lyons Press
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English
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A beautiful and simple guide to edible gardening
The "garden to table" movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, The Backyard Gardener is a comprehensive handbook that will help get them started.
Kelly Orzel covers everything from soil selection to growing and harvesting....
The "garden to table" movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, The Backyard Gardener is a comprehensive handbook that will help get them started.
Kelly Orzel covers everything from soil selection to growing and harvesting....
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English
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Promoting a holistic ecological view, Tammi Hartung encourages you to invite wildlife into your garden. You'll be amazed at how a variety of natural pollinators, pest predators, and soil enrichers can promote vibrant and healthy vegetables. Discover how a slug problem disappears once you've introduced a pond housing bullfrogs, how wasps can take care of tomato hornworms, and why skunks aren't so bad after all. Learn how to garden with animals, rather...
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This book will feature fun, simple and engaging gardening know-how on growing, harvesting and arranging seasonal flowers and vegetables. It will include chapters on getting started, tools of the trade, getting down and dirty with dirt, growing flowers, harvesting flowers, arranging flowers, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings and keeping it organic.
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English
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"Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature's Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors...
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Publisher
Ayer Co
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
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In Wood and Garden, Gertude Jekyll's first book, she writes, "For the love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing source of happiness." Written as a gardening calendar, this seminal work reveals her personal approach to planting a garden, which revolutionized Edwardian horticultural thinking.
13) Mastering the art of vegetable gardening: rare varieties, unusual options, plant lore & guidance
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Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Prepare to encounter new varieties of common plant species, learn their history and benefits, and, most of all, identify fascinating new edibles to grow in your own gardens. Written by gardening expert Matt Mattus, Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening offers a wealth of new and exciting opportunities, alongside beautiful photography, lore, insight, and humor that can only come from someone who has grown each vegetable himself and truly loves...
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Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In backyards and all across the world, Straw Bale Gardening has spread with unprecedented speed. The reason? In any climate and on any continent, you can grow beautiful, fresh vegetables where no food has grown before. In Straw Bale Solutions, you will meet dozens of Straw Bale Gardeners who inspire and educate. You will recognize your own gardening challenges and you will see how to use their experiences to write your own SBG success story.--COVER....
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Princeton Architectural Press
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English
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"Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife...
17) The carrot seed
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English
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Everyone tells a small boy that the carrot seed he has planted will never grow, but his patience is rewarded. Despite everyone's dire predictions, a little boy has faith in the carrot seed he plants.
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2015.
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English
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"Are you ready to learn about a transformative garden technology that could change your life—for less than $100?" —New York Times
Take your straw bale gardening to the next level—in more places, with new products, and even sometimes skipping the straw entirely—with Straw Bale Gardens Complete. The reception and enthusiasm for straw bale gardening, introduced in 2013, has proved revolutionary in vegetable growing. Why?...
Take your straw bale gardening to the next level—in more places, with new products, and even sometimes skipping the straw entirely—with Straw Bale Gardens Complete. The reception and enthusiasm for straw bale gardening, introduced in 2013, has proved revolutionary in vegetable growing. Why?...
20) Growing under cover: techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden
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English
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"Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today's vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive....