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The Year-round Harvest by Catherine Abbott Do you . . . . . . love harvesting juicy heirloom tomatoes—but are at a loss for how to extend their shelf life? . . . dig up buckets full of robust potatoes—but don't know how to store them to resist rot? . . . dream about growing vibrant, crisp greens into the colder months—but can't come up with a system that works? If so, this book is for you. Inside, you'll find all you need to grow and store an abundance of fresh food that will leave you wanting more! Complete with variables to consider given your own growing situation, this one-stop guide features illustrations and trusted advice for getting your hands dirty and planting with preservation in mind.
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Family gardens by Leendertz, LiaVisually inspiring, accessible, and inexpensive, Simple Steps Family Garden will show you how to involve your children in your gardeningand help them be an active participant rather than just a passive user. The innovative modular approach to the subject will help your child understand and takepart in the activity. In addition, this book will help you integrate that vitalsandbox and swing set or wildlife garden into your plans, as well as serving as a valuable resource on the plants that can sustain your child's activities.
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Container gardening for dummiesby Bill MarkenEach book covers all the necessary information a beginner needs to know about a particular topic, providing an index for easy reference and using the series' signature set of symbols to clue the reader in to key topics, categorized under such titles as Tip, Remember, Warning!, Technical Stuff and True Story.
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Grow food at home : simple methods for small spaces : veggies, fruits, and herbs to grow in the kitchen, on the patio, or in the garden
by John H. Tullock
Everything you need to know to grow good food without a yard Grow food for freshness. Grow food organically. Grow food to connect with nature. Whatever the goal, you don't need a lot of space to enjoy the benefits of homegrown veggies, herbs, and fruits. In Grow Food at Home, gardening expert John Tullock shows readers just how easy it is to enjoy "farm"-fresh produce grown right on the windowsill, the porch, or in a tiny backyard. Covering artificial lighting, hydroponics, vertical gardening, straw-bale planters, and more, the book offers even the most confined apartment dwellers plenty of options to get growing. Tullock shares all the tips and tricks readers need to make small-space gardening a success, with information on starting seeds, transplanting, succession planting, "crop" rotation, and other procedures-all tailored to the small-space garden-plus recipes to make the most of the harvest. Readers will be energized to grow a mouth-watering selection of micro-crops, from lettuces and herbs to tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, and even small fruits-no matter how little room they have available.
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No-waste kitchen gardening : regrow your leftover greens, pits, seeds, and more
by Katie Elzer-Peters
The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants.
Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow.
You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and maintaining your re-grown plants. Two-part photo instructions show first what the root, chunk seed, or leaf should look like when you re-plant it, and second, when to harvest or re-plant it in soil to continue growing.
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First Garden Activity Book
by Angela Wilkes
A series of practical and colorful activity books focuses around some of children's favorite pastimes through clear, step-by-step photographs of fabulous, age-appropriate projects.
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