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With Edible Herb Garden, you can reap the joys and benefits of growing herbs at home! Edible Herb Garden is an all-inclusive guide to herb gardening, with several delicious herb recipes included. It features information on growing an incredible selection of fragrant and savory herbs. Then,...

This vegetable cookbook and gardening guide has everything you need to know about cultivating, harvesting, and serving green leafy vegetables from around the world. You'll learn about preparing soil, when to plant, and when and how to harvest. Creasy shares her own extensive knowledge, as well...

You won’t believe your eyes when you see the size of your harvest! In High-Yield Vegetable Gardening, authors Colin McCrate and Brad Halm show how you can make your food garden much more productive, no matter how big or small it is. You’ll learn their secrets for preparing the soil, selecting...

Keep your lawn and eat it too - Foodscaping will show you how to grow food without giving up your view. Foodscaping is what it sounds like - a combination of landscaping and food. This gardening resource is chock-full of real-world examples, photos, and advice so that even an "average Joe"...

Table of ContentsIntroductionAdvantages of HydroponicsNutrients for Healthy PlantsMacronutrientsMicronutrientsThe Difference Between Hydroponic Growth and Soil GrowthDifferent Growing MediumsHydrocorn And Expanded ClayCoconut CoirRice HusksGrowstonesVermiculite and PerliteSand, Brick Shards,...

A hands-on guide to the ins and outs of raising and using vegetables. Want to grow your own? Nothing beats the taste of vegetables from a home garden, and with Vegetable Gardening for Beginners it's never been easier. With many varieties of vegetables to choose from, eating delicious, just-picked...

Comprehensive Guide to the Urban Farm Movement It doesn’t take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Thanks to the burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don’t have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Urban Farming 2nd Edition walks every city and suburban dweller...

Vegetable Gardening Basics is a comprehensive guide to teach you how to grow all sorts of vegetables easily This guide goes through the whole process of; preparing the ground for a new vegetable plot and preparing the soil type.   It covers the advantages of compost heaps to provide the...

Vine-ripened tomatoes. Succulent squash. Plump cucumbers. Growing vegetables is a rewarding--and cost-effective--way to eat better for less. However, you might think you lack the space necessary to grow a functioning garden. With this guide, however, you'll learn how to maximize your space and grow...

Select herbs can grow extraordinary well indoors or outdoors, in containers or the ground, it all boils down to what you want to do. If the space receives less than five hours of sunlight in a day, you might be better off going indoors for easier accessibility especially for watering and cooking....

Develop mature compost right in your garden. Barbara Pleasant and Deborah Martin explain their six-way compost gardening system in this informative guide that will have you rethinking how you create and use your compost. With your plants and compost living together from the beginning, your garden...

Nearly everybody who gardens grows something in a container. Its often the first introduction a person has to growing plants either to look at or to eat. This book is for anyone who wants to grow things without a garden, whether its on a third-floor balcony or a back deck, the only real alternative...

Instead of highly fertile soils ready for your plants, all you find is a stony surface full of glass shards and concrete bits. The best you could do with this is planting some grass and hopping it would work well. But this is not what you probably have in your mind. You want an elaborate garden that would let you plant 'real' plants. And straw bale gardening sounds like a great solution.

With sustainability being an increasingly important issue in our modern world, it's no wonder that interest in indoor gardening is growing. There are many reasons a person may want to start a garden indoors, including weather restrictions of growing outdoors, outdoor pests such as deer that...