Getting Your Hands Dirty in the Garden
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3 Step Vegetable Gardening
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Steve Mercer Details
Many people would love to enjoy eating super-fresh homegrown produce but don't know how. Starting with what varieties to plant through how to tend their garden and when and how to harvest the fruits of their labors, this book is the complete vegetable gardening system for busy people. The book breaks things down into three simple steps: sow, grow, and harvest.
All New Square Foot Gardening
by
Mel Bartholomew Details
Do you know what the best feature is in "All New Square Foot Gardening?" Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it's even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don't have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you'll be growing above the ground. But, the best feature is that anyone, anywhere can enjoy a square foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results.
Garden to Vase: Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers
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Linda Beutler Details
Oregon-based Beutler writes with a light touch and is very knowledgeable about plants; readers will benefit from both in this beautifully illustrated guide. Initial chapters discuss bouquet design, classic flowers in bouquets, garden tips for growing and harvesting, creating bouquets, and bouquets for special occasions. A catalog of flowers and other plants follows, with detailed entries describing each plant, culture for cutting, harvesting, and other practical details.
Gardening for All Seasons
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Anne Moyer Halpin Details
"Gardening for All Seasons" shows both the novice and the experienced gardener how to design, grow, and maintain beautiful gardens throughout the year. The basics are all here, including garden design, color selection, working the soil, and growing houseplants. But it also shows gardeners how to put their gardens in tune with the seasons of the year.
Grow Vegetables
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Alan Buckingham Details
Home-grown vegetables are fresh, healthy, and inexpensive. This book is a manual for growing your own, whether on your balcony, in your apartment, or in a garden, large or small. Even if you have only a few hours a week, "Grow Vegetables" teaches you the tools and methods you need to produce your own vegetables.
Miracle-Gro Complete Guide to Perennials
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Miracle-Gro Details
This book is a comprehensive guide covering all aspects of growing perennials, from planning a garden space to planting, watering, and fertilizing. It covers all care techniques associated with perennials such as staking, deadheading and overwintering. There is a special pictorial troubleshooting section to help gardeners diagnose the most common ailments their plants might suffer.
Time Saving Gardener: Tips and Essential Tasks, Season by Season
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Carolyn Hutchinson Details
A practical how-to reference designed for busy gardeners who can venture into their gardens for only a few hours a week. It shows how to make the best possible use of gardening time and identifies the truly essential tasks that need to be done. Entries are organized by season and then by task, making routine jobs and special projects easy to find.Also features step-by-step work sequences, detailed how-to illustrations, concise easy-to-follow instructions, informative sidebars and valuable tips, season-by-season projects, and a directory of easy-care plants.
Updated 12/31/2011
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