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"Healthy gardens bursting with delicious organic vegetables are within everyone's reach, even if you have never opened a seed packet or staked a tomato. Barbara Pleasant's easy-to-follow garden plans include precise instructions on what to buy, where to plant, and how to care for your favorite vegetables."--Cover, p. 4.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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c1991
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English
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Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its...
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“Here is the southern California gardener’s calendar laid out with clarity and zest; no weasel words, no ifs and buts.” —Pacific Horticulture
In this completely revised and updated classic, beloved garden expert Pat Welsh shares how to garden the organic way. This edition includes forty color photographs; a simple month-by-month format that shows gardeners exactly what to do throughout the year; terrific advice
...In this completely revised and updated classic, beloved garden expert Pat Welsh shares how to garden the organic way. This edition includes forty color photographs; a simple month-by-month format that shows gardeners exactly what to do throughout the year; terrific advice
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Invasive plants are a growing threat to home landscapes, affecting native plants, wildlife, and humans. This clear, easy-to-use book shows you how to recognize the "enemy"; offers eradication options, from simple, organic approaches to the safest and most responsible ways to use chemicals; and enables you to identify 200 of the most common invasives.--COVER.
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The book proposes a holistic approach to flower gardening, with a refreshing difference: instead of concentrating primarily on color, it brings flower shape to the fore, which results in a more aesthetically pleasing result. The featured plants include both perennials and annuals, and have been chosen for their ease of care, attractiveness to pollinators, and environmental friendliness. Emphasis is also placed on seasonal succession, the long-term...
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"No one is born a gardener, but everyone was born to garden. Even the best has to start somewhere, and Daryl Beyers, an instructor at The New York Botanical Garden, is the ideal guide. In this easy-to-follow, visually instructive handbook, you'll find not only the hows but the whys--the proven science--of what goes into a thriving garden. Whether you aim to grow your own food or fill your lif with flowers, The New Gardener's Handbook provides everything...
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2012
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1st ed.
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English
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"In The Book of Gardening Projects for Kids, Whitney Cohen and John Fisher draw on years of experience in the Life Lab Garden Classroom and gardening with their own children to teach parents how to integrate the garden into their family life, no matter its scope or scale. The book features simple, practical gardening advice, including how to design a play-friendly garden, ideas for fun-filled theme gardens, and how to cook and preserve the garden's...
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The University of Chicago Press
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2014.
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English
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"Imagine a typical morning--munching on a bowl of cereal, sipping coffee, dressing for the day, riding to work. Every moment of this common routine draws on the power of plants, and the centuries of development that brought wheat, coffee beans, cotton, and rubber--among many others--into our daily lives. Remarkable Plants celebrates the wonder and utility of the green kingdom, taking a detailed look at how plants have shaped our world. It focuses...
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Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Intended for both small and medium-size gardens, Improving Your Soil reveals the steps to take to achieve the perfect soil base in which to grow plants. With directions on amending poor soil, modifying mediocre earth, aerating compacted topsoil and substrates, and testing pH levels, this book enables gardeners to nurture their plants and promote more abundant growth. The features of good soil include proper structure and nutrients that encourage healthy...
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Adams Media
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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"With Gardening for Geeks, you'll examine your ecosystem and discover how you can create the right environment for your plants. From analyzing meteorological patterns in order to plant productive beds to experimenting with the carbon and nitrogen levels in your soil, this book will teach you all about the developments and chemical reactions that occur at each phase of growth and how you can alter your planting techniques to construct the most thriving,...
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Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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2nd edition.
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English
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Square Foot Gardening works; over two million gardeners will agree. That's how many folks have put Mel Bartholomew's innovative grid-based method to the test over the years, and always with the same result: more produce in less space with less work.
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