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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2021
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| The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard by Gary PilarchikWhat it is: a beginner's guide to vegetable gardening by YouTuber Gary Pilarchik that covers soil, compost, raised bed and container gardening, choosing plants, plant profiles, pest control, preserving, and more.
Reviewers say: "a thorough, sensible approach to cultivating food and gardening in general" (Publishers Weekly).
Read this next: The Beginner's Guide to Growing Great Vegetables by Lorene Edwards Forkner. |
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The backyard homesteader : how to save water, keep bees, eat from your garden, and live a more sustainable life
by Alison Candlin
What it is: the essential beginner's manual on living a greener, healthier, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Easy-to-follow advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm or a backyard garden.
Why you might like this: with step-by-step instructions, photographs, and illustrations, this book is a practical and comprehensive guide to living off the land"
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Woodworking projects for your garden and porch : simple, functional, and rustic décor you can build yourself
by Mattias Wenblad
Is this for you: Do you have a bare, uninspired garden or porch? Instead of overhauling and reconstructing the entire design, simply transform it with any of this book's twenty-six essential and practical woodworking projects that will provide your home with a dash of DIY, rustic charm.
Why you might like this: easy, fun, and attractive wood creations are accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions and are divided into projects for planting, growing, socializing, and relaxing, as well as fun items for children"
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The kinfolk garden : how to live with nature
by John Burns
What is this: The editor-in-chief of the popular magazine showcases outdoor spaces and the way they enhance modern life through 30 homeowners around the world and their gardens that serve as places for work, play, entertaining and inspiration.
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Have you seen CMRLS.Freading.com? The downloadable eBooks that have no wait lists and covers most any subject. There is fiction; yes. Adult, teen, and children's books; yes. But, you will also find great books on gardening, crafts, and cookbooks. Freading is also searchable by category and keyword or title. You'll just need to sign in with your CMRLS library card at CMRLS.Freading.com
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Floriography : An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers
by Jessica Roux
What it is: A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend.
Why you might like this: The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication.
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Paint Watercolor Flowers : A Beginner's Step-by-step Guide
by Birgit O'Connor
What it's about: Paint beautiful blooms, step by step! Sunflowers, orchids, daffodils, lilies...your brush can bring these and more to life with Paint Watercolor Flowers.
What's in it: Master watercolorist Birgit O'Connor guides you every step of the way, from selecting essential watercolor supplies, to practicing basic painting techniques, to capturing the unique details of a variety of flowers, to showing them off in striking, color-rich compositions.
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty
by Lisa Mason Ziegler
What's inside: chatty details about the author's journey to understanding the benefits of using flowers -- and nature in general -- to improve and simplify vegetable gardens (bonus: no more pesticides); the ways readers can do the same; tips on cutting gardens; vibrant color photos.
Don't miss: pictorial garden bed plans that note different plantings for each season; information on pollinators and beneficial insects.
A classic combination: Flowers and vegetables have been grown together for centuries.
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The flower book
by Rachel Siegfried
What's inside: A practical, full-color celebration of 60 flowers allows readers to see the details of each featured flower up close and provides a vast array of information and step-by-step techniques that walk beginners through the basics of foliage and fillers, bouquets and arrangements.
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Grow Your Own Flowers
by Helen Yemm
What's inside: an essential guide to growing hundreds of recommended annual and perennial flowers. It encourages gardeners new and old to embrace the multitude of beautiful flowers that can be planted in any garden to make a dramatic difference.
Why this might be for you: From understanding how to grow flowers to buying, planting and choosing the best varieties from 100 different genera, this takes the reader on a journey through all things floral. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs, the perfect guide to show you how to choose and grow the very best flower varieties in your garden.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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