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“Size matters! Andrea Bellamy shares creative ways to grow a wide array of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in diminutive settings, year-round.” —Debra Prinzing, author, speaker, and podcaster
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea Bellamy shares all the knowledge she’s gained from years of gardening small. You’ll learn
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Lee Schneller has used her fun and easy blueprint system to design hundreds of flower gardens that begin blooming in late spring and don't quit until the last days of autumn. Now she makes it simple for you to apply her no-fail formula to the flower beds in your yard.
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Pavilion Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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Not everyone has access to outside space or what we traditionally think of as a garden, but we all have window ledges, shelves, stairways and unloved spots in our homes. My Tiny Indoor Garden is bursting with exciting ideas and savvy solutions to help you transform any indoor nook or cranny into a peaceful plant paradise. Whether you're looking for a mini kitchen garden or a sun-loving terrarium, we've unearthed an amazing collection of indoor and...
6) The new low-maintenance garden: how to have a beautiful, productive garden and the time to enjoy it
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Timber Press
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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"This inspiring book proves that low-maintenance gardening can be rewarding, delicious, and fun -- as well as time- and energy-saving. Explore creative gardens and meet innovative gardeners in these pages and learn to enjoy your garden again" --Cover, p. 4.
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One day, Harper's Magazine editor Michael Pollan bought an old Connecticut dairy farm. He planted a garden and attempted to follow Thoreau's example: do not impose your will upon the wilderness, the woodchucks, or the weeds. That ethic, of course, did not work. But neither did pesticides or firebombing the woodchuck burrow. So Pollan began to think about the troubled borders between nature and contemporary life. The result is a funny, profound, and...
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The Experiment
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English
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"Lolo Houbein has 40 years worth of gardening wisdom to share on how to coax an abundance of organic food from a plot that is just 3 feet square, including sustainable and cost-effective techniques; over 40 themed plot designs; tips on drying, freezing, pickling; and gardening philosophy"--Adapted from publisher description.
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Timber Press
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This exciting guide layers practical gardening fundamentals with creative solutions that encourage thinking outside the pot. From design basics to essential plant picks, "Small-Space Container Gardens" proves one doesn't need a yard to have a garden.
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Timber Press
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2009.
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English
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Renowned garden artist Keeyla Meadows sees the world in strong, saturated shades. Fearless Color Gardens brings this unique vision to life by showing how to use wild, uninhibited color to connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of art.
Learn how to pick colors that work together; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and...
Learn how to pick colors that work together; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and...
12) The dirt cheap green thumb: 400 thrifty tips for saving money, time, and resources as you garden
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Discover how frugal gardening can lead to fantastic results! Rhonda Massingham Hart provides practical, time-tested tips that stretch your dollar even as they yield beautiful, bountiful plants. From starting seeds to preserving produce, Hart’s advice ensures that you won’t waste time and money while growing your own vegetables, flowers, houseplants, or landscape foliage. Perfect for thrifty gardeners of all levels, The Dirt-Cheap Green...
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[Gibbs Smith]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Dramatic elegance and fragrance for your garden with lilies both exotic and quietly elegant. The lily is an emotive flower, with cultural connotations of romance, remembrance, love, and innocence. Revered from Greek and Roman mythology to the hybridizations of today, lilies permeate gardens, culture, and ceremonies with their classic floral beauty. From the ever-adored white lily to vibrant and exotic oriental lilies, these perennials are colorful,...
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Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Pests in your garden are a challenge no one wants to face but very few gardeners manage to escape. Instead of turning to synthetic chemical sprays, baits, and dusts, Mulvihill shows you how to handle even your worst pest woes naturally. You'll learn to identify common vegetable garden pests, based on both the damage they cause and their physical appearance. Then you'll discover the most effective organic pest-control products to minimize damage while...
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Cool Springs Press
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©2021.
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English
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"Grow your own delicious food literally anywhere. In Home Hydroponics, hydroponic-growing pro Tyler Baras (aka Farmer Tyler) shows you how easy it is to build your own soilless growing systems to cultivate greens, veggies, herbs, and more. And, to sweeten the deal even further, Tyler's designs are not just functional, they're also attractive. In fact, unlike the typical industrial designs of most DIY hydroponic systems, these projects fit beautifully...
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Cool Springs Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Hey, houseplant lovers: Are you ready to up your growing game? Whether your green thumb is weathered and worn or shiny and new, get ready to branch out and step into the world of growing your own herbs - indoors! There's no better place to start this adventure than with Herbal Houseplants. Inside the beautifully illustrated pages, author and expert herbalist Susan Betz lets you in on a little secret: Herbs make great houseplants. And, you don't need...
18) Birnam Wood
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...
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