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Low-water veggie gardening : how to create a drought-resistant, sustainable vegetable garden, conserve water, and grow your own food
by Niemi, Alina
| | Shows how to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers in containers, including watering instructions, how to keep pests away, and tips for harvesting. |
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Organic container gardening for all : from kids to seniors, anyone can grow herbs and veggies in containers
by Lovejoy, Diana
Create a beautiful space that restores you and your family mentally, physically, and emotionally. Put food on the table, improve your health and environment, and boost morale by growing an organic garden. This enlightening how-to book will help you create an abundant, cost effective organic snack bowl of veggies and herbs on a small patio, balcony or porch. Eating fruits and veggies is the number one habit for healthy living and is most delicious and nutritious when eaten fresh, local, in season, and organic.
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Fresh food from small spaces : the square-inch gardener's guide to year-round growing, fermenting, and sprouting
by R. J. Ruppenthal
| | Creating a food system for your space -- Deciding what to grow in your garden space -- How to buy or build productive vegetable containers -- Using vertical space and reflected light -- Starting transplants and cycling your crops -- Growing fruit and berries in your spare space -- Sprouting grains, beans, wheatgrass, and salad sprouts -- Making yogurt, kefir, and fermented foods -- Cultivating mushrooms -- Raising chickens and honeybees in the city -- Making compost and partnering with worms -- Survival during resource shortages -- Helping to build a sustainable future. |
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The Edible Garden
by Hazel White
A complete guide to growing food covers everything from fruits and vegetables to edible flowers and includes practical advice applicable to both large and small gardens, with more than three hundred photographs, quick and easy recipes, and kid-friendly activities. Original.
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The gardener's guide to succulents : a handbook of over 125 exquisite varieties of succulents and cacti
by Misa Matsuyama
"The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti. Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering-and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size-this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions"
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Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest
by Nan Sterman
Water-Wise Plants for the Southwest' is a must have resource for any Southwest gardener facing water-shortages. It is filled with expert advice from proven low-water gardeners, and includes everything from using tried and true low water use plants in the landscape, efficient watering and cultivation tips from planting to maturity, to new water-wise cultivars and species. The book features inspirational photos of low-water residential landscapes and more than 100 plant recommendations with helpful icons for ease of use. Also included is an extensive reference guide with listings of botanical and water conservation demonstration gardens, educational opportunities, irrigation suppliers, technical support, websites, and professional organizations.
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Success with water-saving gardens
by Graham Clarke
Reveals how to create a beautiful garden even in periods of drought or water restriction in a handbook that features tips on designing and planting a water-saving garden, with suggestions on design, soil enrichment, watering and irrigation strategies, and an A-to-Z listing of low-water plants of all varieties. Original.
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Mediterranean gardening : a waterwise approach
by Heidi Gildemeister
Mediterranean Gardening offers a wealth of information: "easy" plants for the beginner, new choices for the garden architect, and for botanists the latest findings on minimum temperatures plants can endure. An extensive bibliography covering drought tolerance and a list of useful addresses make this book as helpful to people converting to water-, labor-, and ecology-conscious gardening as to those starting from scratch.
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Growing California Native Plants
by Marjorie G. Schmidt
| | First published thirty years ago, the long-awaited second edition of Growing California Native Plants is a hands-on native plant guide for both experienced and novice gardeners. In addition to the voluminous knowledge contributed by Marjorie G. Schmidt, now deceased, Katherine L. Greenberg has taken note of the vibrant state of today's horticultural scene, adding plants and ideas that were little known when the book first appeared. |
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Landscaping with native plants of Southern California
by George Oxford Miller
Environmental journalist Miller is a writer, photographer, and third-generation nurseryman in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He offers a practical guide for gardeners and landscapers in Southern California who are interested in utilizing native species to create year-round beauty with relatively little maintenance, while at the same time helping to repair the environment and restore the region's natural biodiversity. The text includes basics on the use of native plants, landscape zones, and designing and maintaining a landscape, followed by native plant profiles grouped by type: trees, shrubs and small trees, wildflowers, vines, groundcovers, and cacti and succulents. Also included are a glossary of terms and resource list of organizations and demonstration gardens. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs.
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Designing California native gardens : the plant community approach to artful, ecologial gardens
by Glenn Keator
| | Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities--bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlands--the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more. |
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California native plants for the garden
by Carol Bornstein
California Native Plants for the Garden is a comprehensive resource that features more than 500 of the best California native plants for gardening in Mediterranean-climate areas of the world. Authored by three of the state's leading native-plant horticulturists and illustrated with 450 color photos, this reference book also includes chapters on landscape design, installation, and maintenance. Detailed lists of recommended native plants for a variety of situations and appendices with information on places to see native plants and where to buy them are also provided.
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The low-water flower gardener
by Eric A. Johnson
Written for today's water-conscious gardener,</b> this book provides cutting-edge information on how to grow more than 270 colorful, unthirsty flowering perennials, shrubs, and ornamental grasses adapted to dry-climate regions. Over 125 large color photos provide ideas to create appealing, easy-care gardens and make it easy to select flowering plants best suited to particular regions. The book was especially prepared for gardeners in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. It provides proper planting dates and recommended plants and growing techniques for each area, and shows how to prepare soils, make compost, and get the most out of water.
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California native gardening : a month-by-month guide
by Helen Ann Popper
This is the first month-by-month guide to gardening with native plants in a state that follows a unique, nontraditional seasonal rhythm. Beginning in October, when much of California leaves the dry season behind and prepares for its own green “spring,” Helen Popper provides detailed, calendar-based information for both beginning and experienced native gardeners. Each month’s chapter lists gardening tasks, including repeated tasks and those specific to each season. Popper offers planting and design ideas, and explains core gardening techniques such as pruning, mulching, and propagating. She tells how to use native plants in traditional garden styles, including Japanese, herb, and formal gardens, and recommends places for viewing natives. An essential year-round companion, this beautifully written and illustrated book nurtures the twin delights of seeing wild plants in the garden and garden plants in the wild.
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The low-maintenance garden
by Susan Berry
A guide to planning and planting a beautiful, bountiful garden includes a host of time-saving, low-work techniques for building healthy soil and hundreds of ideas for easy-care plants and gardens, including advice on how to reduce the time spent on basic gardening upkeep, a directory of low-maintenance plants, descriptions of easy-care surfaces and structures, and more.
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The Small Garden Book : A Practical Guide to Successful Gardening in Small Spaces
by Peter McHoy
Gardening is one of the fastest-growing leisure activities, but as its popularity increases the space available to the average gardener is getting smaller and smaller. Clever and effective design is vital to good gardening in confined areas: it can create the impression of length and depth; get more into and produce more out of limited space; and generally add extra dimensions of style to the whole. The Small Garden Book is an essential guide to making the most of even the smallest and most unpromising space.
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California Gardener's Resource : All You Need to Know to Plan, Plant, & Maintain a California Garden
by Bruce Asakawa
The California Gardener’s Resource is filled with need-to-know information from popular gardening experts who include their collective wisdom in one complete guide. In addition to the hundreds of proven plants, this resource has monthly-to do calendars assisting gardeners with the proper care and timing for everything from planting to watering. Water-wise plant selections and advice on gardening with less water addresses the challenges of gardening in California.
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California month-by-month gardening : what to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year
by Claire Splan
California is already famous as one of the world's leading fruit and vegetable producers--but a glance at a valley oak or California buckwheat is just a small glimpse of the native plants the state has to offer the home gardener. Written by Alameda resident and longtime gardening journalist Claire Splan, California Month-by-Month Gardening is the sister manual to our California Getting Started Garden Guide. Inside, Splan dedicates a thoroughly detailed chapter to each month of the year, telling you what species you should consider planting, precisely when you should plant them, and how to care for them for maximum health.
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California gardener's handbook : your complete guide : select, plan, plant, maintain, problem-solve
by Bruce Asakawa
The California Gardener's Resource is filled with need-to-know information from popular gardening experts who include their collective wisdom in one complete guide. In addition to the hundreds of proven plants, this resource has monthly-to do calendars assisting gardeners with the proper care and timing for everything from planting to watering. Water-wise plant selections and advice on gardening with less water addresses the challenges of gardening in California.
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California getting started garden guide : grow the best flowers, shrubs, trees, vines & groundcovers
by Bruce Asakawa
The California Getting Started Garden Guide features region-specific advice on planting, growing, and caring for more than 150 of California’s top ornamental and native plants. From flowers and grasses to trees and palms, this step-by-step guide includes useful information for the novice and experienced gardener alike, geared exclusively toward the particular climatic concerns of Californians. With gorgeous full-color photos of each plant, this book will increase the enjoyment and satisfaction of any gardener hoping to learn about—and master—the natural environment of California.Book Annotation
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Urban gardening for dummies
by Paul Simon
Covering square-foot gardening and vertical and layered gardening, this excellent resource shows how to make the most of limited space through the use of proven small-space gardening techniques, and includes guidance on pest management, irrigation and rain barrels and small-space composting. Original.
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Gardening for a lifetime : how to garden wiser as you grow older
by Sydney Eddison
In Gardening for a Lifetime, Sydney Eddison draws on her own forty years of gardening to provide a practical and encouraging roadmap for scaling back while keeping up with the gardening activities that each gardener loves most. Like replacing demanding plants like delphiniums with sturdy, relatively carefree perennials like sedums, rudbeckias, and daylilies. Or taking the leap and hiring help — another pair of hands, even for a few hours a week, goes a long way toward getting a big job done. Or maybe it makes sense to get rid of high-maintenance trees, shrubs, or perennials.
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Bug-Free Organic Gardening : Controlling Pest Insects Without Chemicals
by Anna Hess
Are you sick and tired of pesky insects in your garden? Do you want to stay away from pesticides and harmful poisons that could be hazardous to your health and your garden? This book will show you how to bring your garden ecosystem into balance so that beneficial insects and larger animals do the work of pest control for you.
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Radical regenerative gardening and farming : biodynamic principles and perspectives
by Frank Holzman
| | Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming: Biodynamic Principles and perspectives informs and inspires gardeners and farmers who wish to bring quality and integrity into their work with the land. It is about developing close relationships with the land that produces our food. This book combines more than forty years of Frank Holzman's experience in farming, gardening, education, research, and development to provide techniques and concepts for sustainable land use. Throughout, Holzman offers a more spiritual and thoughtful approach to land stewardship, geared toward aspiring gardeners with a desire for a deeper connection with the earth. It is as much about why as it is about how to develop land. Rather than traditional tractor farming, this book provides a better understanding of horticulture, dealing with the biological interactions between soils and plants. |
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The small food garden : growing organic fruit & vegetables at home
by Diana Anthony
Anthony, a garden writer and columnist in Melbourne, Australia, provides gardeners with a guide to small food gardens. She explains planning the site, including watering and irrigation; growing edibles in climatic extremes; container gardening; planning planting; growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs (with alphabetical guides to varieties); and organic management, including composting and fighting pests. She includes a seasonal calendar of gardening tasks.
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Organic gardening for the 21st century
by John Fedor
A comprehensive reference for the modern organic gardener draws on the latest scientific research to demonstrate the best ways to select and grow the finest plants without synthetic chemicals, discussing heirloom and regional varieties of plants, beneficial insects, natural pest control, and other ways to grow healthy vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers. 20,000 first printing.
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The new vegetable growers handbook
by Frank Tozer
Provides information and advice on growing vegetable crops, covering such topics as when and where to plant, soil preparation, raising transplants, watering, feeding, weeds, pest control, harvesting, and seed saving
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The conscientious gardener : cultivating a garden ethic
by Sarah H. Reichard
In his influential A Sand County Almanac, published at the beginning of the environmental movement in 1949, Aldo Leopold proposed a new ecological ethic to guide our stewardship of the planet. In this inspiring book, Sarah Hayden Reichard tells how we can bring Leopold’s far-reaching vision to our gardens to make them more sustainable, lively, and healthy places. Today, gardening practices too often damage the environment: we deplete resources in our own soil while mining for soil amendments in far away places, or use water and pesticides in ways that can pollute lakes and rivers.
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Garden problem solver
by Rosemary Ward
A guide to understanding and addressing gardening problems provides tips and techniques for handling the pests and issues specific to certain ornamentals, vegetables, fruits, and weeds
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The first-time gardener : growing vegetables
by Jessica Sowards
A homesteader and host of YouTube’s Roots and Refuge Farm presents this essential tool for new gardeners, providing them with all the practical and inspirational know-how for growing a fruitful garden. Original. Illustrations.
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Grow food for free
by Huw Richards
"Huw's Grow Food for Free has the inspiration and practical advice you need to start, grow, nurture, and harvest your own fruit and vegetables organically and at zero cost, even if you're new to gardening" -- From publisher
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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. 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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All new square foot gardening : more projects, new solutions, grow vegetables anywhere
by Mel Bartholomew
Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh produce in less space and with less work. Now, based largely on the input and experience of these millions, the system has been even further refined and improved to fully meet today's changing resources, needs, and challenges.
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Heirloom plants : a complete compendium of heritage vegetables, fruits, herbs & flowers
by Thomas Etty
It’s nearly impossible for gardeners to resist the allure of heirloom plants. Their names alone sound inviting—Flanders Purple kale, Golden Marconi sweet peppers, Moon & Stars watermelons, Turk’s Turban squash, Scarlet Emperor running beans, and Jefferson plums—and many growers claim that their taste is unsurpassed. Beyond the classic appeal, however, lies the far more important issue of biodiversity. Unless these unique seeds are grown and saved, they will not only be forgotten, but lost forever.
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Grow all you can eat in 3 square feet
by Inc. Dorling Kindersley
Describes how to grow your own organic produce in small spaces, detailing how to make a raised bed or a hanging basket to maximize every square foot of valuable space and how to manage seed collecting, successional gardening and companion planting methods. Original.
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Kitchen gardening for beginners
by Simon Akeroyd
Presents a guide for growing fruits and vegetables, covering such topics as preparing a garden plot, eliminating weeds, treating pests and diseases, using mulch, and feeding plants for optimal growth
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Compost city : practical composting know-how for small-space living
by Rebecca Louie
Describes how to select and care for a compost system—regardless of space, schedule and lifestyle—offering tips and techniques for easily composting food scraps and yard waste and how to avoid hard work, horrible odors, messes and creepy crawly critters. Original.
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The seed underground : a growing revolution to save food
by Janisse Ray
Discusses the loss of fruit and vegetable varieties and the genetically modified industrial monocultures being used today, shares the author's personal experiences growing, saving, and swapping seeds, and deconstructs the politics and genetics of seeds
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Organic seed production and saving : the wisdom of plant heritage
by Bryan Connolly
Book This guide to organic seed saving and production, first published by the Northeast Organic Farming Association in 2004 and originally titled The Wisdom of Plant Heritage: Organic Seed Production and Saving is part of a series of eight handbooks (available individually and as a set) aimed at homesteaders, farmers, and experienced gardeners. Coverage includes the critical importance of seed saving, consequences of genetic erosion, strengths and limitations of hybrid varieties, selecting varieties, growing seed, and details on growing individual crops. Appendices provide a list of seed saving devices currently in use in the Northeast, seed cleaning resources, and a list of Northeastern seed companies and organizations involved in heirloom crop preservation. Connolly is a Connecticut-based organic farmer.
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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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