Gardening category: 4300 books
by Michael Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
For many gardeners, trying to establish a garden on clay soil is a difficult and costly exercise. Many plants which do well in other conditions die or fail to thrive when confronted with heavy clay. This informative guide to gardening on clay soils will help save you time and money. It provides specific...
Homegrown Pantry
A Gardener's Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Now that you’ve mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops — including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more — to keep your pantry...
by Rob Smith, Lon Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
this book will get you started in hydroponics. more than just a discussion of the topic, ‘hydroponic gardening’ provides the reader with complete background information on hydroponics, explains the different systems and how they work, then shows the reader in a step by step guide, how to set those...
Gardening with Less Water
Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner for Green Living & Sustainability
Are you facing drought or water shortages? Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently — using up to 90 percent less water for the same...
Gardening for Butterflies
How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
“No matter the size or shape of your growing area, this will guide you through creating a butterfly-friendly space.” —Mother Earth News
Welcome the world’s most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety...
Planting By the Signs: Mountain Gardening
The Foxfire Americana Library (10)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
An Appalachian farmer’s almanac, “Planting by the Signs” is a valuable resource for the gardener looking for time-honored tips for clearing land and growing vegetables from the people who originally pioneered the art through hard work (and a little bit of luck). In the spirit of the Foxfire...
Plants You Can't Kill
101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
"I kill everything I plant."
Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Can’t Kill.
Seriously-it...
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...
by Alice Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
A book of wisdom and life.
Welcome to Alice Taylor’s garden:
‘Just inside the gate, hand-painted on a rickety piece of timber, is a little sign: Miracles only grow where you plant them. I saw it in a garden centre and could not resist it. This garden is full of my lack of resistance....
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her...
The Art of Gardening
Design Inspiration and Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
“Delightful!” —The New York Times Book Review
Discover a world of beauty and creativity! Chanticleer has been called the most romantic, imaginative, and exciting public garden in America. It is a place of pleasure and learning, relaxing yet filled with ideas to take home. And now those...
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,...
Mindfulness in the Garden
Zen Tools for Digging in the Dirt
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Mindfulness in the Garden offers simple mindfulness verses (gathas) composed to connect the mind and body and to bring the reader/gardener’s awareness to the details of the present moment as they work in the garden. These gathas are signposts leading to nature, to the present, and ultimately to...