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1) Growing under cover: techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today’s vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive....
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Growing Vegetables (The First-Time Gardener) is an essential tool for newbie gardeners, handing them all the practical and inspirational know-how they need to grow a fruitful garden, even if its their very first time sinking a seed into the soil. Planting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating; it's tough to know where to start. Before you sink your hands into the soil, you want answers to all of those questions rolling around inside your...
Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
What is a tender perennial? Every perennial is hardy in its native-climate, but many cannot survive winter temperatures in colder zones. If a particular perennial acts more like an annual in your garden, it's a tender perennial to you. Enjoy many of your favorite plants season after season by bringing them indoors for the winter. With a little indoor care, your plants will be healthy and ready for repeat appearances in the garden come spring.
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