Horticulture category: 167 books
Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa
Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Food Crop Production by Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Improvement evaluates traditional cultivation practices used by smallholder farmers, providing a synthesis of the latest information on increasing crop yield through adoption of research innovations. The...
How to Grow World Record Tomatoes
A Guinness Champion Reveals His All-Organic Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
For most of his 80+ years, Charles Wilber studied how to best work with nature. In How to Grow World Record Tomatoes he tells his personal story and offers his philosophy and approach to gardening. He reveals for the first time how he grows record-breaking tomatoes and produce of every variety....
Drink Beer, Think Beer
Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
From an award-winning journalist and beer expert, a thoughtful and witty guide to understanding and enjoying beer
Right here, right now is the best time in the history of mankind to be a beer drinker. America now has more breweries than at any time since prohibition, and globally, beer culture...
by Mary Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Informative and entertaining, this book will stimulate experimentation and encourage gardeners to review and improve their current gardening practices. Once gardeners learn how plants are constructed, it is easier to envision how they'll grow and flourish. An understanding of the structure behind...
by Judith McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Praise for Judith McCormack and BackspringNominated for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardA well-written and smart novel that unfolds many moments of profound and subtle beauty. McCormack’s treatment of details and prose are refreshing, confident, and attentive.”-The Winnipeg Review"A...
by Carol Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Is Our Food Safe? looks at the food we eat and questions how much we can take for granted about its safety.
by James Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
GROWING VEGETABLES IS DIFFICULT, DIRTY, HARD WORK, AND EXPENSIVE - NOT ANY MORE IT'S NOT!!
BY GROWING VEGETABLES IN STRAW YOU REMOVE THE HARD LABOUR (NO MORE WEEDING OR DIGGING OR CRAWLING ON THE GROUND) THERE IS NO DIGGING AROUND IN DIRT, THE TECHNIQUE IS VERY SIMPLE TO APPLY, AND BALES OF...
Tasting the Past
One Man's Quest to Discover (and Drink!) the World's Original Wines
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
"A vintner’s blend of science, history, travel, and tantalizing drink recommendations." --Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist
In search of a mysterious wine he once tasted in a hotel room minibar, journalist Kevin Begos travels along the original wine routes—from...
by Agrihortico
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Chicory or common chicory is a popular salad leafy vegetable. Two major types of common chicory are radicchio chicory and Belgian endive or Witloof chicory. Scientific name of common chicory is Cichorium intybus.
Endive is a leafy salad vegetable belonging to the genus Cichorium. Scientific...
by Jane Varkulevicius
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
The best groomed and most productive garden is easy when you know what to prune when and how your plants work. Pruning for Flowers and Fruit covers plants in cool-temperate to subtropical climates and is suitable for the home gardener, avid enthusiast as well as the nursery trade and horticultural students....
by Norman J Stone
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Straw bale gardening techniques as well as growing vegetables in Raised Beds are both covered in detail in this new exciting gardening method by Norman J Stone called an RS Combo. This gardening technique takes the best out of both these ideas to create an ideal vegetable growing habitat. This...
by Robert Owen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The book is aimed at both the novice and experienced beekeeper in Australia. With over 350 photographs and drawings, it covers the beekeeping equipment needed, how to obtain bees, where to locate them in the garden and the basics of colony management. There are also detailed chapters on the life cycle...
Organic Management for the Professional
The Natural Way for Landscape Architects and Contractors, Commercial Growers, Golf Course Managers, Park Administrators, Turf Managers, and Other Stewards of the Land
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Can you manage the landscape of a golf course, city park, or corporate campus without synthetic fertilizers and toxic pesticides? Absolutely! Organic landscaping is not only possible on a large scale, but it also makes sense both economically and environmentally. It promotes healthy soils and plants,...
Nut Grower's Guide
The Complete Handbook for Producers and Hobbyists
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Nut growing has become more popular and technology has developed significantly over the last 5 years. This book is the starting point for prospective commercial nut growers – large or small scale, for farmers who want to diversify and also for gardeners interested in growing nut trees in their back...