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by Allison Mia Starcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1995
Anyone who gardens knows how snails, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars can damage vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. But not many of us know that ground beetles eat caterpillars, not plants; that dragonflies feed on mosquitoes; that parasitic wasps prey on tomato hornworms. In this delightful...
American Eden
From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
“Informative and absolutely engrossing.”...
Soil Mates
Companion Planting for Your Vegetable Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Matchmaking in the garden!
In this charming guide to companion planting for your vegetable-garden favorites, you’ll learn why Broccoli ♥ Rosemary and whether Cucumber + Corn = friends with benefits. (Just watch out for Celery! Leggy and leafy, she is notoriously easygoing and will happily...
by Maria Rodale
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Maria Rodale shares her top organic gardening secrets season-by-season in a guide that offers straight-forward, easy-to-follow gardening basics so that youcan enjoy a beautiful, bountiful, organic garden all year long!
Fall explains learn how to extend your growing season into winter; pick...
Herb Gardening For Beginners
How to Plant an Herb Garden
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
People who have never gardened are often intimidated by the thought of growing their own herbs but nothing could be simpler. With all the publicity about pesticides and other unwanted elements in our food, it makes sense to grow your own herbs and spices. It's rewarding, satisfying, convenient, and...
Gardening in Eden
The Joys of Planning and Tending a Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
"Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is.
In Gardening in Eden, we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring...
Midway
Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth-century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland and further afield. His correspondence with...
by Dave Preston
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
How did Jenny Butchart turn an ugly, disused limestone quarry into the world’s most famous private garden? Over 100 years later Butchart Gardens still attracts almost a million visitors from around the globe, to enjoy a world created by an unrivalled green-thumb visionary.
The stuff...
Japan's Master Gardens
Lessons in Space and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Presenting twenty-five master gardens, this landscape design book explores the ingenuity and range of Japanese landscaping, from the self-imposed confines of courtyard designs to the open expanses of the stroll garden.
No two Japanese gardens are ever the same. The Japanese Zen garden is a...
by Kim Burgsma
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Almost Eden captures the absolute wonder of the earth and teaches us how we can create a little bit of this wonder in our own backyards. Readers will discover how their gardens can be in tune with God's original plan of earthly stewardship and be creative and well designed. Readers are encouraged to...
Waking Up in Eden
In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
A woman journeys to Kauai to save Hawaii’s native plants: “Part history, part personal confession, part cautionary tale about environmental preservation” (Gioia Diliberto, author of Paris Without End).
One day, Lucinda Fleeson quit her big-city newspaper job, sold her suburban house,...
Gardening for a Lifetime
How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
From the winner of the National Garden Club's Award of Excellence
Although the garden may beckon as strongly as ever, the tasks involved—pulling weeds, pushing wheelbarrows, digging holes, moving heavy pots—become increasingly difficult, or even impossible, with advancing age. But the idea...
by James Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in life is know where to start. This can be especially true to gardening. The task at hand can seem insurmountable with such a huge plethora of information available to be learned on gardening.In this book you will learn about six key tasks that, if mastered,...
by Dueep Jyot Singh
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Table of Contents
Introduction to Sustainable Greenhouse Gardening
Introduction
Why Make a Glass Green House
Types of Greenhouses
Span Roofed Greenhouse
Three-Quarter Span House
Different Shaped Houses
Propagating Frames
Heat in the Greenhouse
To Heat or Not to Heat; That Is the Question
Soil...