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Backyard Farming: Composting
How to Plan, Build, and Maintain Your Own Compost System for a Healthy and Vibrant Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Give Back to Your Garden by Composting!
Backyard Farming: Composting is your all-in-one guide for creating your own homestead composting plan and adding rich, nourishing humus to your garden. This guide reviews every important topic from...
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening
Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening explores the practical methods as well as the deeper essence of gardening. In her latest book, groundbreaking garden writer Carol Deppe (The Resilient Gardener, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties) focuses on some of the most popular home garden vegetables—tomatoes,...
Plant This Instead!
Better Plant Choices * Prettier * Hardier * Blooms Longer * New Colors * Less Work * Drought-Tolerant * Native
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Beautiful gardens are generally thought to be true labors of love, often demanding hours of tedious routine maintenance. Planting requirements can be daunting, and finding the time to successfully cultivate a home garden is a tall order for most of us—constant watering, debris removal, and tiresome...
Indoor Gardening: 35 Helpful Indoor Gardening Tips & Techniques to Design a Successful Indoor Garden
Indoor Gardening: 35 Helpful Indoor Gardening Tips & Techniques to Design a Successful Indoor Garden
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
You will also learn:
-What plants are the easiest to grow indoors
-How to ensure your plants are getting enough water
-What to do about humidity issues
-What you need to do to ensure your plants as well as your home do not become infested by bugs
And much more. In...
by A. K. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The Zen gardens of Japan are places in which to meditate. They can be anything from a landscaped garden, complete with waterfalls, to a bed of raked pebbles. This ancient way of gardening goes back to the Zen Buddhist priest-gardeners of the thirteenth century. Based on abstract compositions, relying...
by Molly Parfitt
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Every day we hear about another assault on our planet. No, we aren't talking about war although that is another area of concern. We are talking about daily practices that are upsetting the natural balance of life as we know it.Did you know that there are potentially life-threatening products...
How to Store Your Garden Produce
The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce enables you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section provides storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce commonly grown in gardens and allotments. Storing your garden produce...
by James R Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Over the past decade there has been a resurgence of interest in growing fruit and vegetables in the garden and on the allotment. Part of the driving force behind this is an increased awareness of the health benefits that can be derived from fruit and vegetables in the diet. The 'five helpings a day'...
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home again...
Chemical Free Pest Control
Hundreds of Practical and Inexpensive Ways to Control Pests without Chemicals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Why use toxic and potentially harmful chemicals to control pests when chemical-free methods are equally effective - and much cheaper! This book contains everything you need to know to make pests unwelcome in your home - from ants, cockroaches, silverfish, slugs and snails, cane toads, rats, rabbits...
The Urban Garden
How One Community Turned Idle Land into a Garden City and How You Can, Too
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Fifteen people-plus a class of first graders-tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community...and how they can change yours, too.
Urban Farming Handbook includes:
Fifteen first-person stories of personal and civic transformation from a range of individuals,...
by Levi Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Summer is a wonderful time for DIY: you can work on your projects in the open air, while enjoying the sun, and you can create beautiful things to use not just indoors, but on the beach, in the garden, around a fire or in a park.If you want creative ideas for your home, your garden, your children,...
An Ecological Gardeners Handbook
How to Create a Garden With a Healthy Eco-System and Garden Sustainably
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
An Ecological Gardener’s Handbook explains how Nature gets plants to grow – without a human in sight. It shows how gardeners can use these same natural processes to create healthy, vibrant, productive gardens without using toxic chemicals or pesticides. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of creating...
The Kitchen Herb Garden
A seasonal guide to growing, cooking and using culinary herbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is full of inspiration and practical advice on cultivating a kitchen herb garden,and on using its fresh,home-grown herbs in your cooking. There is detailed information on how to plan,plant,grow and maintain thirty selected herbs in a herb garden that will always be productive.Additionally,there...