The Gardener's Color Palette
Fischer, Thomas
The Gardener's Color Palette features ten plants in ten color groups and offers gardeners hundreds of opportunities to mix and match. Want a red garden? Choose the 'Crimson Star' columbine, the 'Lucifer' crocosmia, and the 'Gardenview Scarlet' bee balm. For a metallic garden plant the Japanese cobra lily, the Chocolate cosmos, and the Kamchatka fritillary. Or, create a multicolored array by picking plants from each category. Plant profiles include a description, the common and botanical names, information about expected height and spread, bloom time, hardiness, and light and water requirements" --Publisher description.
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Fischer, Thomas
The Gardener's Color Palette features ten plants in ten color groups and offers gardeners hundreds of opportunities to mix and match. Want a red garden? Choose the 'Crimson Star' columbine, the 'Lucifer' crocosmia, and the 'Gardenview Scarlet' bee balm. For a metallic garden plant the Japanese cobra lily, the Chocolate cosmos, and the Kamchatka fritillary. Or, create a multicolored array by picking plants from each category. Plant profiles include a description, the common and botanical names, information about expected height and spread, bloom time, hardiness, and light and water requirements" --Publisher description.
Check AvailabilityThe Conscientious Gardener
Reichard, Sarah H.
Explores how various gardening tasks impact the environment and offers suggestions on how gardeners can ensure they have a minimal impact by reducing their gardening footprint while still enjoying their hobby.
Check AvailabilityRefresh Your Home
Reichard, Sarah H.
Need to revive old trim, or fix wobbly outlets? Instead of hiring expensive contractors and landscapers, this guide will take you step by step through a wide range of do-it-yourself ideas for your home, garage, and yard.
Check AvailabilityThe Veggie Gardener's Answer Book
Ellis, Barbara W.
From the Publisher: What happens between the hopeful spring weekends spent planting seeds and the warm summer morning when the gardener wanders back into the rows of vegetable plants with picking basket in hand? Plenty! Every healthy vegetable garden represents an entire world of activity and every vegetable gardener, no matter how experienced, wants to know more about what's going on in those tidy rows and how to handle any growing quandary that may arise throughout the season. The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book has all the answers, gathered together in a sturdy little book for handy in-the-garden reference. Gardeners will find helpful, uncomplicated responses to questions on planning and planting a vegetable garden, improving soil, caring for crops, and organically controlling pests and diseases. The second section of the book takes readers on a veggie-by-veggie tour of the most popular crops, offering detailed advice on everything from starting seeds to knowing when to harvest. Having trouble choosing tomato varieties? Need advice on staking beans? It's all here in easy-to-access answers to everyday questions. The popularity of vegetable gardening is at an all-time high. Homegrown vegetables taste great, nourish body and soul, and provide the additional security of knowing where the produce comes from and how it was grown. The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book feeds readers all the insider's tips and tricks, practical advice, and organic wisdom necessary for growing the very best crops.
Check AvailabilityThe Complete Guide To Saving Seeds
Gough, Robert E.
A full-color resource explains how to gather, clean, and store seeds for three hundred different kinds of vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs, as well as how to propagate and care for new seedlings.
Check AvailabilityThe 50 Mile Bouquet
Prinzing, Debra.
A full-color resource explains how to gather, clean, and store seeds for three hundred different kinds of vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs, as well as how to propagate and care for new seedlings.
Check AvailabilityMycophilia
Bone, Eugenia.
A scientific and cultural exploration of one of one of the most provocative and sought-after foods on Earth examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen.
Check AvailabilityLiving With Less: How To Downsize To 100 Personal Possessions
Lambert, Mary.
A scientific and cultural exploration of one of one of the most provocative and sought-after foods on Earth examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen.
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Dorling Kindersley, Inc.
A scientific and cultural exploration of one of one of the most provocative and sought-after foods on Earth examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen.
Check AvailabilityPlant Breeding For The Home Gardener
Tychonievich, Joseph.
It's the holy grail of gardening: a plant that perfectly matches your tastes and the conditions in your garden. The hitch is, you're not likely to find it at your local nursery or garden center. You're going to have to create it yourself. But don't worry - it isn't hard. After all, gardeners have been doing it for centuries, simply by saving seed of the varieties that tasted or performed best. But you'll get even better results by following the advice in Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener. You'll learn how to set achievable goals in your breeding program; the ins and outs of genetics (in non-technical language!); how to pick the best parent plants; how to cross-pollinate; the best techniques to use for popular vegetables and flowers; and how to harvest and store seed. In no time at all, you'll be producing a tastier tomato, a perkier pepper, or a more ravishing rose!--COVER.
Check AvailabilityRenovating Old Houses
Nash, George
If you love old houses, you know that this emotional attachment demands a wealth of practical knowledge. That's just what George Nash provides in this old house owner's manual. Drawing on years of renovation experience, Nash shows you what it takes to make an old house convenient and livable by present-day standards, while still retaining or restoring important historical details." -- Book jacket.
Check AvailabilityImproving Your Soil
Reid, Keith
Intended for both small and medium-size gardens, Improving Your Soil reveals the steps to take to achieve the perfect soil base in which to grow plants. With directions on amending poor soil, modifying mediocre earth, aerating compacted topsoil and substrates, and testing pH levels, this book enables gardeners to nurture their plants and promote more abundant growth. The features of good soil include proper structure and nutrients that encourage healthy plant growth. Soil in "good tilth" is loamy, nutrient-rich and friable because it has an optimal mixture of sand, clay and organic matter that prevents severe compaction. Improving Your Soil shows gardeners how to improve the soil in their garden to encourage good seed bedding and a strong root system for proper nutrient disbursement throughout various soil depths.
Check AvailabilityThe Triumph Of Seeds
Hanson, Thor
Presents a guide to seeds that explains their importance to nature and humanity, describing their role in such events as the Age of Discovery, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Check AvailabilityBicycle Repair Manual
Sidwells, Chris
Presents a handbook for cyclists on the care, maintenance, and repair of the bicycle, providing detailed photographs and step-by-step instructions that demonstrate how to clean and maintain mechanics, brakes, and suspension.
Check AvailabilityBicycle!
Tracy, Sam.
At their finest hours, bikes exist on a level above mere machines, and there's no reason the joy should end when the ride is over. Written by a working bicycle mechanic, this book cuts through the techno-speak and delivers maintenance clarity with a touch of humor and radicalism while categorically denying mechanics' supposed dreariness. Bicycle! is about encouraging society to learn for themselves how to make their bikes work, not because they have to, but because they want to. With detailed descriptions of all maintenance tasks and repair situations, clearly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this guide will serve the need for a serious rider's manual.--From publisher description.
Check AvailabilityThe Indestructible Houseplant
Martin, Tovah
Tovah Martin, the undisputed Queen of Green, shows that anyone can grow healthy houseplants. It all boils down to a simple set of skills and—here’s the crucial part—picking the right plants. These tough but beautiful plants can thrive in less-than-ideal conditions, and they’re easy to find. You’ll also learn how to pot, repot, water, and fertilize; pick up some great ideas for fun, funky containers; and benefit from Tovah’s tips on how to display your plants to perk up a room. So get some indestructibles and start your indoor garden.
Check AvailabilityDownsizing The Family Home
Jameson, Marni
Counsels readers on how to downsize a family home filled with a lifetime of memories, sharing practical recommendations for strategies based on the expertise of antiques appraisers, garage-sale gurus, professional organizers, and psychologists.
Check AvailabilityGardening Like A Ninja
England, Angela
Counsels readers on how to downsize a family home filled with a lifetime of memories, sharing practical recommendations for strategies based on the expertise of antiques appraisers, garage-sale gurus, professional organizers, and psychologists.
Check AvailabilityThe Beekeeper's Handbook
Sammataro, Diana.
The fourth edition of this comprehensive beekeeper's handbook provides new and updated information throughout including new information on important contemporary issues such as Colony Collapse Disorder, Africanized honey bees and bee mite control. Packed with detailed illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this guide provides beginner and experienced beekeepers with the fundamentals of bee theory as well as practical information on hive construction, obtaining bees, feeding, seasonal management and honey and pollen harvesting procedures. The work includes useful sidebars throughout as well as a large section of web and print resource recommendations on a wide variety of beekeeping and related topics. Sammataro is a research entomologist for the US department of Agriculture, Avitabile is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Connecticut and Caron is a retired professor of entomology at the University of Delaware. Comstock is an imprint of Cornell University Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Check AvailabilityThe Beginner's Guide To Starting A Garden
Roth, Sally
The fourth edition of this comprehensive beekeeper's handbook provides new and updated information throughout including new information on important contemporary issues such as Colony Collapse Disorder, Africanized honey bees and bee mite control. Packed with detailed illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this guide provides beginner and experienced beekeepers with the fundamentals of bee theory as well as practical information on hive construction, obtaining bees, feeding, seasonal management and honey and pollen harvesting procedures. The work includes useful sidebars throughout as well as a large section of web and print resource recommendations on a wide variety of beekeeping and related topics. Sammataro is a research entomologist for the US department of Agriculture, Avitabile is professor emeritus of biology at the University of Connecticut and Caron is a retired professor of entomology at the University of Delaware. Comstock is an imprint of Cornell University Press. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Check AvailabilityThe Forager's Feast
Meredith, Leda
Presents a guide to identifying, harvesting, and cooking wild edibles, and includes recipes for such dishes as gumbo with purslane and wild sassafras, crabapple jelly, spicy mustard and avacado salad, and oyster mushroom stew.
Check AvailabilityThe Home Decluttering Diet
Lifford, Jennifer
If you’re sick of the clutter around your home and can’t find any organization systems that work for you, it’s time to put your house on a diet. Starting with a 30-day home detox to quickly shed some of that excess weight, you will gain the confidence, motivation and skills needed to create your ideal healthy home. With the option to pick and choose projects based on your specific goals, you will learn to change your bad habits and transform your house into the happier, more organized and inspired home that you desire. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide shows you how to organize your home month-by-month and room-by-room to achieve and maintain a lasting, clutter-free lifestyle. Drawing on experiences in her own home, Jennifer Lifford developed these distinct and effective techniques that do more than just declutter―you will learn how to change your habits for good without feeling overwhelmed or stressed. Simply follow the exercises in the plans such as Shedding the Pounds and Building Strength to develop the techniques needed for permanent clutter loss and a forever organized home. The Home Decluttering Diet is complete with organization guides, checklists, tips for getting the whole family involved and simple DIYs to provide you with practical storage solutions that are easily maintainable. Create the lifestyle you want and get your home and belongings in tip-top shape today!
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