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Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours,...

Are you looking for ideas on how to lower your food costs or start a new hobby? Why not do both at the same time and create an edible garden? Gardening is a wonderful activity and organic edible gardening is a thrifty way to help to reduce your food costs while providing you with healthy, nutritious...

Starting your own vegetable garden at home can be fun, rewarding, and healthy. Not to mention the money you’ll save by growing your own food so you can save at the grocery store. This is a book for the complete novice. Want to start your own vegetable garden but you’ve never watered a plant in...

How To Grow Broccoli is a perfect start to growing fresh organic food for yourself and your family and friends. Broccoli has a great reputation as a super food and there's no reason why you couldn't be growing fresh organic varieties of broccoli in a small space or even in a container. This...

How To Grow Garlic Garlic can be started very early in the year in many regions, even if you have snow all winter there are still ways to grow garlic that will see you through next winter. This mini guide takes you through the process of growing garlic, when and how to harvest it,and the best...

How To Grow Tomatoes Tomatoes are a gardener's dream. There really is nothing quite like the taste of a home-grown organic fresh tomato. There are hundreds of different varieties of tomato which fall into roughly four different types: - Regular everyday tomato - Cherry tomatoes - Plum...

How to Grow Blackberries is a mini guide to growing these power packed fruits at home. Treat yourself and your family to the freshest, tastiest fruits that will boost your immune system and keep the family coming back for more. Train a wild bramble patch or buy in a hybrid. Find tips on both,...

#4 on Publishers Weekly's Bestselling Gardening Books list! This new, completely revised edition has over 500 new photographs, 400 new illustrations, 400 new plants and trees, the latest pest control recommendations, fruit and vegetable recommendations, new tips and plants specifically for Southern Texas, plus everything in the first edition.

Gardening with the Moon & Stars brings biodynamics to the ordinary gardener. Elen Sentier is passionate about biodynamics. She feels it’s vital to make organics and biodynamics available to as many people as possible if we are to help our earth cope with the increasing demands we humans place upon...

How To Grow Potatoes Potatoes are so common in the western diet that we imagine they've been around forever. But although evidence suggests potatoes were used around 500BC, the potato had a bad reputation for many centuries and was thought by some cultures to be an evil vegetable. The...

Howard Garrett has converted gardeners throughout Texas and beyond to gardening the natural way without chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides. In this revised and updated edition of The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening, he uses a question-and-answer format to present a wealth of new information...

Plant a mid-Victorian garden! In search of some old heritage fruits and vegetables? Maybe it would help to have the names of a few roses, or dahlias, or phlox that were grown back in those days.George Leslie advertised in Toronto in 1869 that he had the largest Nurseries in the British Empire,...

This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil! How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? Let Building Soil answer your questions and be your...

The hellstrip—also known as a boulevard, meridian, and planting strip—is finally getting the attention it deserves! Gardeners everywhere are taking advantage of the space to add curb appeal to their homes, expand the size of their gardens, and conserve more resources. Hellstrip Gardening is...