Gardening category: 4300 books
by Royce Niffenegger
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Violets and violas can be found both in gardening handbooks and in weed-identification books, proof that one man's weed is another man's flower. Violets and violas are easy to grow--almost too easy. These pretty flowers have been grown in gardens for centuries, even if they were never planted there....
by Marcus Woodward
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
“How to Enjoy Garden Flowers” is a vintage guide to the flowers that can be found in an English garden, exploring their history, popularity, identification, culture, and maintenance. Interwoven with interesting information, beautiful descriptions and even poetry, this guide constitutes a must-have...
by Kitty Lloyd Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This is volume II of “The Modern Flower Garden” series, dealing with herbaceous plants and their use in borders. Herbaceous plants are annual, biennial, or perennial plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground and die completely at the end of the growing season or when they have flowered...
Mini-Farming: A Starting Guide for Practical Farming at Your Very Own Home
Urban Gardening & Homesteading
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
If you are concerned about what is in the food that your family eats, this book is for you. If you have always wanted to take a chance at growing food for fun, nutrition and maybe a little extra spending money, this book is for you. Even if you only have a little space, even just a balcony or a patio,...
Urban Botanics
An Indoor Plant Guide for Modern Gardeners
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Have trouble keeping house plants alive? Struggling to find your green fingers? Fear not! You can still have a beautiful plant-filled home with this stunning guide to indoor plants.
Whether you are looking to cultivate an entire indoor garden, or simply wish to know more about your single cactus,...
by Stephen M. Dlamini
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
The plastic garden handbook is written in simple language and introduces fascinating new concepts in gardening that are aimed at enticing everyone to start his/her garden. It guides you step by step into how you can grow your own vegetables, herbs or flowers in your own backyard using ordinary plastic...
Grow a Little Fruit Tree
Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Grow your own apples, figs, plums, cherries, pears, apricots, and peaches in even the smallest backyard! Ann Ralph shows you how to cultivate small yet abundant fruit trees using a variety of specialized pruning techniques. With dozens of simple and effective strategies for keeping an ordinary fruit...
by Alan Titchmarsh
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Deals with the basic skills that every gardener needs to know and understand. Think about what you're trying to achieve, whether it be formative shaping of the plant, maintenance, renewal or rejuvenation. Look at the best tools available for the job and the different techniques to use.
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Lawn Gone!
Low-Maintenance, Sustainable, Attractive Alternatives for Your Yard
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner.
Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing...
How to Mulch
Save Water, Feed the Soil, and Suppress Weeds. A Storey BASICS®Title
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Mulch your way to a vibrant and healthy home landscape. Profiling a variety of techniques that include sheet mulches, feeding mulches, and living mulches, Stu Campbell and Jennifer Kujawski help you choose the best mulching strategy for your backyard, vegetable garden, or flower bed. You’ll be amazed...
How to Grow Stuff
Easy, no-stress gardening for beginners
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The essential guide to the simple art of growing stuff.
Feeling green-fingered but not sure where to start? This book is for you. Growing stuff - herbs, veg, salad, flowers and plants - is fun and pretty easy. You just need some practical knowledge - all in this book - and a bit of space -...
A Mystic Garden
Working with Soil, Attending to Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
A Mystic Garden is a lyrical primer on the spirituality of gardening, affirming the garden as a soulful space where people can take root and experience the changing seasons and the enduring cycle of renewal. Gunilla Norris shares with us a year’s time in her New England garden, and shows that all she observes there illuminates the sacredness of the everyday.
Gardener's Yoga
40 Yoga Poses to Help Your Garden Flow
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Here are 40 yoga poses specifically designed for gardeners' bodies and spirits to stretch, relax, and grow through the seasons. With the right sequence of yoga poses, a gardener's body can bend with the wind and stretch to the sky to alleviate the aches that come from all that digging, pulling, and...
Little Farm Homegrown
A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
A new gardening book for anyone who's dreamed of going back to the land and living a simpler life...After a city-bred Boomer couple weathers their first, tumultuous year on their rural backyard farm, they foresee smooth sailing for the future…then they discover their homesteading journey has only...