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Series
Publisher
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This practical guide covers every aspect of gardening, no matter where you live or what you want to grow, and easy-to-understand tips and colorful photos make this a great guide for beginners as well as those who want to expand their gardening skills. Dedicated chapters on flowers, fruits and vegetables, herbs, shrubs, houseplants, and garden decor provide practical advice on how to care for your garden year after year so that it will become a lifelong...
22) How to grow your own flowers: an illustrated beginner's guide to container and small space gardening
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that begonias can be dug up in the fall, stored indoors in the winter, and be ready to be planted and bloom again in the spring? That daylilies need to be divided every three to four years to produce more blooms? Or that marigolds can be both a beautiful and helpful addition to a vegetable garden as a natural deterrent to common garden pests? Whether you're a first-time gardener or an experienced green thumb looking to learn more about...
23) Container gardening: the permaculture way ; sustainably grow vegetables and more in your small space
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's own experience growing a lush permaculture garden on her balcony, this book teaches anyone, anywhere to grow fresh, healthy produce in containers, free of chemical fertilizers or insecticides"--
Author
Publisher
Wendy Silveira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Starting a garden is one of the most rewarding things you can do. And you'll soon see the rewards of your efforts with beautiful views, delicious flavors and colorful blooms. Even if you are green-thumb challenged, this book will help transform you into a talented gardener! This 2-in-1 gardening book not only covers popular raised bed gardening in detail, but also includes gardening in containers, even recommending the best vegetable varieties that...
Author
Publisher
Yellow Pear Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seed to Table focuses on how to feed your family with nutritious foods from your own outdoor, home and/or kitchen garden. Whether you live in a city or in the country, this book gives you tools on effective growing techniques, seed starting methods, and garden maintenance. Organic gardening for every individual style! Have fun while you create your own gardening system whether it be for a container garden or a kitchen garden. Try out big and small...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"How to grow a thriving orchard and reap a bountiful harvest in less than a year – in both urban and non-urban settings. Would you like to supplement your diet with healthy and delicious fruits from your backyard, but you feel like the space is too small? Do you like the idea of having an orchard right outside your window but have zero ideas of where you should start? Have your previous attempts of growing a fruit garden failed, and you want to...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on decades of gardening experience, and illustrated with vibrant photography from her own home and garden, popular gardening lifestyle influencer Allison Vallin Kostovick offers sage advice on growing bountiful harvests of favorite vegetables, herbs, and flowers"--
Author
Publisher
Die Gestalten Verlag
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The followup to the much-loved Easy Peasy, Little Green Fingers is packed full of even more fun gardening activities for children. These inspiring, creative and simple activities are possible whether you have a backyard, a balcony or even just a windowsill - everyone is welcome to get their hands dirty. Growing fruits and vegetables, creating fun art projects with nature, learning about the natural world and how plants grow, learning to observe the...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue - the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group...
Author
Series
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Backyard Homestead Guide to Growing Organic Food is a one-stop reference for all the key information food gardeners need to grow a healthy, bountiful garden. The book features a comprehensive companion planting guide and an in-depth review of the most effective organic pest control practices, including recipes for how to make your own pest deterrent sprays"--
Series
Plants and gardens volume 48, no. 2
Publisher
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
34) All that grows
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A boy discovers he has much to learn while observing plants with his older sister -- a story about cultivating patience and letting knowledge grow. As a boy walks around the neighborhood with his older, green-thumbed sister, she tells him all about the plants they see -- magnolias that smell like lemon cake, quince trees that will bloom the most beautiful red, daffodils that are the flower of Mother's Day, and even dandelions, whose greens can be...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin show you how to successfully plant, grow, and harvest 47 varieties of tropical fruiting plants - in any climate! This straightforward, easy-to-use guide brings papaya, passionfruit, pepper, pineapples, and more out of the tropics and into your home"--
Author
Publisher
Yankee Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This third book in a best-selling Old Farmer's Almanac gardening series takes the stress out of striving for container gardening success and replaces it with fun and excitement. Whether a gardener's goal is more food, more sensational displays, better use of space, a new growing adventure, or all of the above, the Container Gardener's Handbook makes it easy for containers to be in everybody's garden--and many other spots!"--
Publisher
Are Media Pty Limited
Language
English
Description
With a total audience reach of over six million, Better Homes and Gardens is the country’s original and most successful multi-platform brand, combining a TV show, power-house print magazine, thriving digital and social platforms and dedicated e-commerce vertical, bhgshop.com.au.