Gardening category: 4300 books

First published in 1956, We Made a Garden is the story of how Margery Fish, the leading gardener of the 1960s, and her husband Walter transformed an acre of wilderness into a stunning cottage garden, still open to the public at East Lambrook Manor, Somerset, England. This is now one of the most important...

An important horticultural memoir articulating a new landscape art that's both environmentally sensitive and rich in creativity. Janet Marinelli left her comfortable city garden to join a botanist colleague in search of the rare Seabeach Amaranth--one of our many native species that is in danger...

Planting Techniques is a practical and easily accessible reference guide for the budding gardener. With information on selecting the right gardening tools and purchasing plants, through to planting and propagation, this book explains the ins and outs of how to achieve a healthy garden. With step by...

How to raise vegetables, herbs, houseplants, and flowers in your home greenhouse.

Discover how to make the most of your gardening plot, however confined, with Isabelle's creative and inspiring projects, including creating a cocktail window box from which you can make your own delicious fruity drinks, recycling containers such as wine and fruit crates, and creating a country garden...

As Wisconsin’s population moved from farmsteads into villages, towns, and cities, the state saw a growing interest in gardening as a leisure activity and source of civic pride. In Vintage Wisconsin Gardens, Lee Somerville introduces readers to the region’s ornamental gardens of the nineteenth...

Table of Contents Introduction Choosing the Right Pots Potting Season Why Re-Pot a Plant Potting Operations Preparing your Pot How to Do the Potting Best Soil Natural Manures Fish Scrap Green Manure Compost Leaf Mold Using Turf Using Old Mortar Liquid Manures Soapsuds Traditional Quick Composting...

Table of ContentsIntroductionWater CanUsing a Hose PipeWater Sprinkler or Artificial RainerWater Needed for Different CropsQuantity of Water Needed for Your GardenOverwatering And Under WateringWhere Do You Get the Water from?Disadvantages of Overhead IrrigationSoil ErosionConclusionWater Tanks...

Table of ContentsIntroductionHeavy ClaySandy SoilsOrganic MatterStop Those Bonfires!Compost LayersAmount to UseUsing Sedge PeatPoultry Manure and Bone MealHow to Make Leaf MoldConclusionAuthor BioPublisherIntroductionBefore one plans a garden or plants it, he takes a good look...

Urban gardening for beginners While Fionna will be the first to tell you she's not actually a Granny in the biological sense, she is most definitely a wise woman of the world who meets all the criteria for anyone's favourite Gran. When she decided to improve her health and grow her own food she had...

The idea of companion planting has arisen in the gardening community in recent years as an extremely viable new take on how plants should be situated, grown, and cultivated. Whether you are planting Tomatoes and Onions or Carrots and Corn, the proper pairing of your plants can have a major impact...

Completely revised from cover to cover, this is the 35th anniversary release of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, the bible to organic vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been thoroughly updated and includes a new formula for complete organic...

One of the best books for beginning and experienced vegetable gardeners, this clear, straightforward, easy-to-read gardening bestseller (over 500,000 copies sold) uses organic, biodynamic methods to produce large amounts of vegetables in very small spaces. To accommodate today's lifestyles,...

A comprehensive guide to starting an herb garden, written for beginners The consummate beginners guide for anyone interested in starting an herb garden. It will explain, in simple terms, everything you need to know about choosing the site, preparing the soil, choosing the plants, caring for...