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The Visual Palette
Defining Your Photographic Style
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
With just a rudimentary understanding of exposure and composition, one can capture fairly competent images of attractive subjects. But is that image remarkable in any way? Does it really say anything? How does one capture, edit, and share images that stand out from the crowd and express a distinct...
Advanced Top Bar Beekeeping
Next Steps for the Thinking Beekeeper
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Bee populations are plummeting worldwide. Colony Collapse Disorder poses a serious threat to many plants which rely on bees for pollination, including a significant proportion of our food crops. Top bar hives are based on the concept of understanding and working with bees' natural systems, enabling...
Medical Growing
A Garden of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Employing proven flower-growing techniques used by commercial greenhouses the world over, the growing of cannabis plants is demystified in this helpful gardening book. The natural cycles and growth of the plant are explained, as is how to sprout seedlings, manage growth and soil, how and when to use...
Starting Seeds
How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed. A Storey BASICS® Title
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Get a jump on the gardening season! In this Storey BASICS® guide, Barbara Ellis provides the basic information that you need to start a variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers from seed. Ellis shares simple, proven techniques for sowing seeds, managing indoor plants, and creating proper growing...
Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening
A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Healthy Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
When the inspiration hits to start an organic garden, many novices could benefit from a guidebook that speaks directly to their enthusiasm, their goals, and, of course, their need for solid information that speaks a newbie's language—from the most trusted source for organic gardening methods.
In...
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 Dueep Jyot Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Table of ContentsThe Art of Sowing, Transplanting, and Planting Your GardenTable of ContentsIntroductionChoosing the Best SeedsThings Not to DoSowing of SeedsDifferent Types of DrillsRight Hole SizePreparation of the SoilSowing in StationsCovering the SeedsSoaking and Treating of the SeedsThinning...
Paradise Lot
Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban...
The Manual of Seed Saving
Harvesting, Storing, and Sowing Techniques for Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
“Makes it easy to find information in a snap, on most any edible you want to grow.” —Kylee Baumle, Horticulture
Growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs from seed has many benefits for both the gardener and the planet. Why save seeds when you can buy them so cheap? Not only does seed saving...
by Rhonda Massingham Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
From nibbling on fruit bushes to destroying flower beds, unwanted deer pose a frustrating and challenging obstacle to even the most patient gardeners. Rhonda Massingham Hart provides insights into deer behavior and offers a variety of proven techniques to keep your deer problem under control. Learn...
The Art of Weather Photography – A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners
Capture Weather Photographs Like a Professional
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Renowned Australian Weather and Nature photographer, Jacci Ingham, shares her passion for chasing storms and reveals her secrets of mastering the art of weather photography. In this comprehensive guide Jacci teaches you everything you need to know about capturing your own landscape and lightning images....
Pruning Made Easy
A Gardener's Visual Guide to When and How to Prune Everything, from Flowers to Trees
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Proper pruning will keep your landscape beautiful and thriving year after year. This authoritative guide includes more than 300 step-by-step illustrations to clearly demonstrate the correct pruning procedures for a variety of trees, shrubs, hedges, vines, and flowers. Lewis Hill offers expert advice...
The Best of Photographic Lighting
Techniques and Images for Digital Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2005
Bill Hurter explains the characteristics of light—both natural and artificial—in this in-depth guide. Fully exploring color balance, exposure, and light ratios, the handbook expands on skills learned in the studio to explain how to harness the beauty of less predictable lighting situations, like...
A User's Guide to the View Camera
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This reissued third edition of A User’s Guide to View Camera introduces photographers to large-format cameras, covering their use with both film and digital capture. Readers will learn the anatomy of cameras with a separately adjustable back or front, the proper techniques for using view cameras,...