Home Garden category: 30467 books
Concrete Garden Projects
Easy & Inexpensive Containers, Furniture, Water Features & More
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
For gardeners and backyard do-it-yourselfers, concrete is a revelation. It's durable, weatherproof, impossible to steal, and it provides much-needed insulation for outdoor plants. Concrete weathers beautifully, softening around the edges, developing moss, and becoming more picturesque with age.
Concrete...
by Gloria Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Successfully maintain your container gardens using professional landscapers' secret methodsDo you love container gardening, but have a difficult time keeping everything looking great?Do you often wonder what you should be doing when, so that everything is on schedule and all parts are working...
by Greg Dinneen
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Millions of plants live well without human help.Indeed, millions of plants live so well that people call them weeds.Indoor plants can oxygenate and clean the indoor air of toxins.Dry and deodorize a damp house and air.Flowers, such as Boronia, can beautifully scent your home.Succulents,...
Homegrown Herbs
A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Enjoying More than 100 Herbs
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to...
The Edible Garden
How to Have Your Garden and Eat It, Too
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In this timely new book, BBC star and Gardening World's thrifty and resourceful Alys Fowler shows that there is a way to take the good life and re-fashion it to fit in with life in the city. Abandoning the limitations of traditional gardening methods, she has created a beautifully productive garden...
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Contemporary Sheds
Complete plans for 12 Sheds, Including Garden Outbuilding, Storage Lean-to, Playhouse, Woodland Cott
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
A modern guide to classic outdoor structures.
Sheds and other landscape shelters have never been out of style, but they are now seeing a remarkable surge in popularity, and are being used in creative new ways. The common garden shed is now just as likely to serve as a workshop for an artist...
Kick-Ass Cannabis & Veggies
Organic Gardening Soils, Teas, and Tips for Growing Marijuana and Nutrient-Rich Vegetables
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Learning to garden in a natural, Earth-friendly way seems accessible to only the most experienced of gardeners. But Kip Zonderkop brings organic gardening within anyone's reach in Kick-Ass Cannabis & Veggies.Equal parts how-to and how-come, this book outlines an easy-to-follow 8-step process that anybody...
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture
Creating an Edible Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
“A useful and a wonderful resource whether you grow on a balcony, rooftop or in the ground.” —Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden Supply
Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as organic gardeners discover the wisdom of a simple system that emphasizes...
by Stephen Orr
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From modern garden master Stephen Orr comes a new, definitive book on herbs to finally replace the dusty and outdated classics. Here are entries on hundreds of plants that are extraordinarily useful in cooking, homeopathy, and more; dozens of recipes and DIY projects; and beautifully styled photographs...
The Weekend Homesteader
A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month—so whether it’s January or June you’ll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to...
Harvest
Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal gifts, and more.
Every garden--not just vegetable plots--can produce...
French Dirt
The Story of a Garden in the South of France
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till.
Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near Nimes/Avignon/Uzes. 4 BR, 2 baths,...
The Made-from-Scratch Life
Simple Ways to Create a Natural Home
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Do you long for simpler days? Do you wish you had the time to offer your family home-grown meals? Does your heart cry for a quiet place in this fast-paced world?
Blogger and homesteader Melissa K. Norris inspires with practical and easy methods to help you cook from scratch, garden, preserve...
by Yuji Ueno, Rie Imai
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The true meaning of Ikebana—the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement—is to take a few beautiful flowers and plants and tastefully present them in very simple containers to enhance home decor. The 53 elegant arrangements featured in Japanese Ikebana for Every Season are perfect for special...