Home, Garden, and DIY May 2020 Recent Releases Outer Order, Inner Calm : Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness by Gretchen Rubin The best-selling author of The Four Tendencies and The Happiness Project reveals the link between external order and inner calm, listing more than 150 customizable ideas for minimizing clutter to promote better productivity, creativity and energy. Homegrown Berries by Timber Press A primer on the basics of growing berries at home provides details on site selection, cultivation needs, pest control and more for an array of climates and varieties. By the author of How to Eradicate Invasive Plants. 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg Offers 101 simple tips and tricks that focus on reducing our environmental footprint, with advice for recycling, recipes for making toiletries and cleaning supplies, and tips for decluttering and shopping sustainably. Vegetables, Vegetables, Vegetables! The Suburban Micro-Farm by Amy Stross Outlines the ways to run a suburban homesteading garden, covering such topics as developing and nurturing healthy soil, using permaculture techniques, and making money with crops. Soil Mates : Companion Planting for Your Vegetable Garden by Sara Alway In this charming guide to companion planting for your vegetable-garden favorites, you'll learn why Broccoli ♥ Rosemary and whether Cucumber + Corn = friends with benefits. (Just watch out for Celery! Leggy and leafy, she is notoriously easygoing and will happily settle down with just about anyone, raising a ruckus in your raised beds.) Complete with 20 pairings, tasty recipes, prep-aration tips, and more, Soil Mates is the perfect partner for your horticultural matchmaker. Root Cellaring : the Simple No-Processing Way to Store Fruits and Vegetables by Mike Bubel Tells how to use root cellaring, and gives instruction on both improvising a small root cellar and constructing a true root cellar. Starter Vegetable Gardens : 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens by Barbara Pleasant Presents a guide to cultivating an efficient and beautiful vegetable garden, from growing seedlings to preventing diseases, and provides twenty-four different plans for optimum crop yield. The Vegetable Gardener's Bible : Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions by Edward C. Smith A fully updated 10th-anniversary edition covers more vegetables, fruits and herbs than the first edition and includes full-color photos, extended-season growing advice, sections on organic gardening and solutions for small-space gardening. Contact your librarian for more great books! Carson City Library 900 N Roop St Carson City, Nevada 89701 (775) 887-2244 www.carsoncitylibrary.org