Gardening category: 4300 books
Ask Ciscoe
Oh, la, la ! Your Gardening Questions Answered
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Ciscoe Morris answers 400 the most interesting, oft-asked, most urgent, and puzzling gardening questions. Even if Ciscoe’s signature exclamation "Ooh-la-la!" (delivered with a thick Wisconsin accent) is completely disarming, do not underestimate his gardening chops: Master Gardener, certified...
by Water Puppy Wrangler
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Water Puppy Wrangler is not my real name, but aquaoponics is my game. Well, sort of. Actually, I'm a novice gardener and beginner aquapon, writing under the above pseudonym, who is interested in learning about and growing vegetables, herbs, and fruits for family and friends, while enjoying my water...
Flower Gardening
Ideas & Tips for Propagating Flowers and Creating Flower Beds
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
In this handy guide, readers can learn lots about flower gardening. With sections such as: Types of Herbaceous plants, Maintenance, Cultivation, taking Stem Cuttings, Simple Layering of Houseplants & Air Layering, you can get up to speed on all the basics of flower gardening in a really short...
by Jane Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Jane Lamb has been a major contributor of gardening articles to Down East magazine for nearly 20 years. Now 27 of her articles profiling Maine's premier gardeners and most outstanding gardens are collected in one volume. Jane has provided a new introductory paragraph for each chapter to bring readers...
The Desert Gardener's Calendar
Your Month-by-Month Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What's the best time to plant or prune? When should you fertilize fruit trees? What's the earliest date to set out tomato plants? Gardeners in the desert Southwest can't rely on books that try to cover the whole country. Summer heat, less rain, and shorter, unreliable growing seasons are important...
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots
Gardening Together with Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Plant a pumpkinseed with a child, and cultivate wonder. This simple act of reconnecting with children with nature is Sharon Lovejoy's purpose and joy and gift. Author of Sunflower Houses: Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages and Hollyhock Days: Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart, Sharon...
The New Low-Maintenance Garden
How to Have a Beautiful, Productive Garden and the Time to Enjoy It
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Do you ever lament that you'd love to be able to garden more, but just don't have the time? The demanding pace of modern life leaves little space for the pleasures of gardening. On the other hand, gardening itself could be the culprit: elaborate, traditional perennial borders; water-hungry or disease-prone...
Gardening with Foliage First
127 Dazzling Combinations that Pair the Beauty of Leaves with Flowers, Bark, Berries, and More
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Create a foliage-driven garden that dazzles!
Although seductive, flowers, by their fleeting nature, are a fickle base to provide long-lasting gardens with year-round interest. Tackle this problem with the advice in Gardening with Foliage First. Learn how to first build a framework of foliage and...
by Steven A. Frowine, National Gardening Association
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Your green-thumb guide to planning, planting, and cultivating a garden
With some basic knowledge, the right tools, and a little work, anyone can transform a boring old yard into a beautiful garden. This friendly guide tells you how. From improving your soil to selecting plants and caring for...
by Ann Whitman, National Gardening Association
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Grow a bountiful garden without harming the environment
Whether you're cultivating fruits and vegetables or growing beautiful flowers, this handy guide shows you how to work with nature, not against it, to create and maintain an organic garden your whole family will enjoy.
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The Medicinal Gardening Handbook
A Complete Guide to Growing, Harvesting, and Using Healing Herbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating weeds found to speed the healing of wounds, soothe skin irritations, calm uneasy stomachs, and ward off...
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...
The Resilient Gardener
Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The...
by D. J. Herda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
More and more people are recognizing the need for nutritious local sustainable food but organic options can be costly and the produce sections of most supermarkets are packed with fruits and vegetables that have racked up more frequent flier miles than a rock band on world tour. How can urban dwellers...