Taunton’s Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables and Herbs
August 20, 2011 by admin
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From planning and planting to harvesting, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to growing your own vegetables and herbs. That’s good news for gardeners everywhere, as the “eat local” movement continues to gain momentum across the country. What to grow? Where to plant it? How to get the most from your garden? It’s all in here. First-rate gardening pros share their expertise on designing a garden of any size, as well as fundamentals about soi... More >>
The Naked Truth About Gardening, The Bare Essentials: The Anyone Can Grow Plants Guide to Hobby Gardening Indoors & Outdoors
August 18, 2011 by admin
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The Naked Truth About Gardening, is an essential guide on how to successfully grow plants. Author, Eleanor Rose, believes ANYONE can grow plants if they know how. It is the how, that is surprising. In The Naked Truth About Gardening: The Bare Essentials, Eleanor shares her top 10 "Naked Truths" for gardening. These truths are the keys that unlock the secrets to mastering this ancient art while utilizing technology of the 21st century. This book contains what every p... More >>
Jerry Baker’s Flower Garden Problem Solver: 786 Fast Fixes for Your Favorite Flowers
August 16, 2011 by admin
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Timeless wisdom on growing a flower garden accompanies creative, professional secrets in this guide to caring for blossoms. This asters-to-zinnias growing guide features starter tips, common problems, and seasonal advice for 85 varieties of the most popular flowers. Essential aesthetic details of garden design and landscaping are discussed with attention to the challenges that sloping and uneven ground present. Common garden problems are easily fixed through homemad... More >>
Gardening By Mail: A Source Book, Fifth Edition
August 14, 2011 by admin
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Here at last is the expanded and updated edition of what Better Homes & Gardens called "the ultimate guide to sources on anything to do with gardening." The guide has long been acclaimed for its invaluable roster of plant and seed companies, nurseries, garden accessories, services, libraries, societies, newsletters, and books. Now, with a much-requested and much-needed guide to gardening on the Internet, Gardening by Mail is as current as it is authoritative.... More >>
The Ann Lovejoy Handbook of Northwest Gardening: Natural , Sustainable, Organic
August 12, 2011 by admin
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In this updated second edition of the popular guide, Ann Lovejoy explains how to create a gorgeous ornamental garden following the principles and techniques of organic and sustainable gardening. Emphasizing good soil prep, composting, drainage, mulching, and proper plant selection, the book covers every step from landscaping and design to soil prep to planting beds, all with the goal of creatinga lovely garden without chemical fertilizers or pest control. Janet Loug... More >>
Texas Organic Gardening
August 10, 2011 by admin
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Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as an organic gardening expert to give you clear-cut, step-by-step instructions for growing flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grasses the natural way. Discover how easy it is to grow healthy, beautiful plants without the risk to your family, pets, and the environment. ... More >>
Successful Container Gardening: 75 Easy-to-Grow Flower and Vegetable “Gardens”
August 8, 2011 by admin
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This book describes the advantages to container gardening in words and pictures. It includes more than 300 color photos and 20 illustrations, along with advice for choosing the right container and soil medium; dozens of plant-specific "recipes" for container gardens of flowers, vegetables, shrubs, and trees categorized by sunlight requirements; strategies for irrigation; expert tips for disease and pest prevention; and foolproof instructions for pruning, pinchin... More >>
Accessible Gardening
August 6, 2011 by admin
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If advancing age, illness, or accident has made gardening too difficult for you, don't become frustrated. There is an alternative. Accessible Gardening is a book of tips and techniques that will help you to overcome obstacles and return the joy of gardening to your life: recommendations for modifying an existing garden for gardening ease; advice on selecting ergonomic tools and low-maintenance plants; directions for constructing raised-bed planters; instructions for... More >>
Gardening for the Future of the Earth
August 4, 2011 by admin
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"The key to the future of the world lies in gardening."
So begins this inspiring book from the pioneering organic seed company Seeds of Change, which has introduced millions of gardeners to a cornucopia of luscious, unusual fruits and vegetables--all bred by methods that preserve the irreplaceable resources of water, soil, and genetic diversity for future generations.
Gardening for the Future of the Earth brings together for the first time the t... More >>
Basic Gardening: a handbook for beginning gardeners
August 2, 2011 by admin
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This essential primer is the beginning gardener's key to confidence and gardening success. Carter takes the gardener through the basics of choosing plants, soil, lawn care, growing vegetables and flowers, and controlling insects and disease.... More >>

