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Free-Range Chicken Gardens
How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
“If your garden fantasies involve chickens, Jessi Bloom is here to make those dreams come true.” —The New York Times
Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! In this essential handbook, award-winning garden...
Planning & Planting a Moon Garden
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-234
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
With today's schedules, few people are able to enjoy their gardens during prime daylight hours. But there is a way you can delight in the fragrance and beauty of flowers after dark: Plant a night-blooming garden! Also known as moon gardens, night-blooming gardens are expressly designed for evening...
Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition
How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen...
by R Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Compost is created when organic matter decomposes. Organic matter eventually reaches a point where it can no longer decompose; it is at that point that it becomes an extremely nutritious and long-lasting fertilizer. Garden compost can be produced using four very basic ingredients: carbon, nitrogen, air...
by Kiakay Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Whether you are looking towards gardening as a hobby or for growing fruits and vegetables as main source of food, you can learn everything about it from this book! So, go through this detailed guide of square foot gardening to take your gardening experience to the next level.
Take advantage...
by Ramon Harris
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Do It Yourself Landscaping: Simple Fixes That Will Transform Your Yard
This book covers several different topics including:
Chapter 1: What Is Landscaping Chapter 2: Planning For Desert Landscaping Chapter 3: A Wonderful Backyard Landscaping Idea Chapter 4: Backyard Landscaping...
by Eben Eugene Rexford
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
Foreword
I. Getting the Garden Ready
II. Laying Out the Garden
III. Planting the Garden
IV. Seeds that Give Best Results
V. Early Garden Work
VI. Vegetable Plants in the House
VII. Standard Varieties of Vegetables
VIII. Small Fruits...
Gardening Basics for Beginners
Gardening Basics for Beginners Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Want to start a garden, but don't know how? Gardening Basics for Beginners gives you the information you need to successfully and confidently plant and grow a thriving garden. With this book, you'll receive expert advice on gardening basics, such as: - choosing your garden's location - prepping your...
by Sandy Qure
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
If you don’t have a lot of outdoor space, or if you live in an urban area with no yard, your options for gardening might be limited. In cases like these, square foot gardening is the perfect solution. In this book you will learn the basics about what square foot gardening is, how to plan your square...
Edible Perennial Gardening
Growing Successful Polycultures in Small Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This interesting book is packed full of Anni's favourite tasty edible perennials. With explanations of how to source and propagate different vegetables, which plants work well together and plants suited to different environments. It includes basic principles and getting started, growing in polycultures,...
Personality Tests For Your Soil
The Ultimate Guide to Soil, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Grow twice the fruits and vegetables in half the space on the farm, in the backyard, or even in your window!
Have you noticed the extraordinary flavors and yields emanating from even a small garden when the soil is just right? If you’ve ever been envious of your neighbor’s dirt or just...
The Foodscape Revolution
Finding a Better Way to Make Space for Food and Beauty in Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Foodscaping visionary Brie Arthur looks at under-utilized garden spaces around homes or in the landscaped common spaces of planned communities – and she sees places where food can be grown…lots and lots of it. And not in isolated patches, but inter-planted with non-food ornamental plants for year-round...
by Ann Muswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Have you ever spent time perusing one of those home and garden magazines? You know what I mean. Those glossy pages that show homes that never look quite lived in. . .let alone have kids, dogs or cats to dirty up the fancy photos.One of the things that really stands out are the gardening pictures....
The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition)
Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects."A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active...