Gardening category: 4300 books
The New Hampshire Gardener's Companion
An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Granite State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The New Hampshire Gardener’s Companion is the only guide focused on the challenges of cultivating a successful garden in the Granite State. Whether you are an experienced green thumb or an inquiring novice, whether you live in the White Mountains, the Connecticut or Merrimac River valleys, or along...
Working with Nature
Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature...
Gardener's Guide to Those Other Brassica Crops
Gardener's Guide to Growing Your Vegetable Garden, #21
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Brassica crops in the cabbage family are among the most nutritious and flavorful crops grown in the garden. The Gardener's Guide to Those Other Brassica Crops is a useful gardening guide for both beginning and veteran gardeners, includes cultural, preservation and planting information for collards, kale, Brussels sprouts and kohlrabi.
by D. Fairchild Ruggles
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
"In the course of my research," writes D. Fairchild Ruggles, "I devoured Arabic agricultural manuals from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. I love gardening, and in these texts I was able to enter the minds of agriculturalists and botanists of a thousand years ago who likewise...
From Grass to Gardens
How to Reap Bounty from a Small Yard
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
"Inspires, sustains, surprises, and consoles."--National Geographic Traveler (for River Time)
"The good stuff . . . Not only good history, but an engaging intellectual autobiography."--Sue Hubbell, New York Times Book Review (for Dangerous Birds)
Janet Lembke loves to garden. But when...
Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles
Quick Crops for Small Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Fast, Fresh Garden Edibles solves two problems for many home gardeners. It shows gardeners without gardens how to grow vegetables in the smallest of spaces, including turning a small mostly paved courtyard or patio into a bountiful garden and how to make use of window boxes, containers, and hanging...
by Markus Heinrich Rehbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Escaping the traditional ‘Sissyfussian’ farming dilemma with a proven ‘no-till’, generative approach to soil management and gardening. Your holistic guide to a minimum work, maximum benefit, lifestyle that you will be able to, and more importantly, will want to, sustain. A lifestyle without...
by Sharon Sorenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Welcoming birds to your yard isn’t about choosing the right feeders and bird food. If you want to attract the widest range of birds to your home, you need to plant a diversity of native plants. Why go green? Native plants live longer; they are drought resistant, take less water and fertilizer, they...
by Dawn Layna Fried
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Design, Build, and Bloom: A Desert Garden Guide was written to educate newcomers and longtime residents in the southwest about how to design their own magnificent, cost-effective landscapes for home or business. The easy-to-read book with hundreds of colorful photos provides detailed information on...
Slow Down and Grow Something
The Urban Grower's Recipe for the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Backyards, rooftops, courtyards and balconies are sprouting with herbs, ballooning with fruit and bursting with vegies across our urban landscapes. Slowly, but we certainly believe surely, people are embracing the joy of gardening and the more relaxed lifestyle it brings. There is a change in the...
by Kristy Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2018
**100% Natural Originally Organic **
It wasn’t that long ago that eating organic foods and using organic products was considered a fad – a passing craze. Organic products ranged from organic clothing , make up to vegetables, and when you purchased organic products, it meant you were helping...
The Easy Fruit Garden
A No-Nonsense Guide to Growing the Fruit You Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Filled with sound horticultural advice, this book is essential reading for time-poor gardeners who want to achieve maximum yields from their fruit gardens with minimum effort. With clear practical instructions and inspirational photographs, it demystifies the growing of fruit and shows that with the...
Island Gardens
Havens of Beauty Around the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
The British Isles consists of more than 6,000 islands scattered around the main islands of Britain and Ireland. More than 100 of these British off-shore islands are inhabited – and where there are people, there are gardens. Lighthouse gardens, gulf-stream-soaked, tropical gardens, windswept remote...
by Rebecca Sawyer-Fay
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
If you're intrigued by the idea of the garden as a stage — where the drama of germination, growth, planned designs, and plenty of surprises occur — then this book is for you. Writer Rebecca Sawyer-Fay and photographer Lynn Karlin deliver another informative, practical, and simply beautiful gardening book.