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Greens For Gloomy Days February 2022
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Gardening under lights : the complete guide for indoor growers
by Leslie F. Halleck
A horticulturist provides essential information for gardeners and hobbyists looking to grow plants indoors, including information on photosynthesis and how much light a plant actually needs, an overview of available tools, and techniques for growing ornamental and edible plants inside.
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How to grow anything: food gardening for everyone [DVD]
Melinda Myers shows you the ins and outs of designing a beautiful garden to fit your space, and shares a wealth of examples to give you an idea of just what’s possible. For example, if you just want a few plants on your patio, consider the “thriller, filler, spiller” method of container gardening. Or if you live somewhere with a shorter growing season, consider planting seeds indoors and transplanting them outside when the weather warms.
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The New Seed-Starters Handbook
by Nancy Bubel
Starting plants from a seed grants earlier harvests, greater variety, healthier seedlings, lower costs, and the undeniable sense of satisfaction and reward. For the most complete, up-to-date information on starting plants from seed, turn to The New Seed-Starter's Handbook. Written by a gardener with 30 years of experience, this updated, easy-to-use reference explains everything you need to know to start seeds and raise healthy seedlings successfully. You'll find: - The latest research in seed starting - The best growing media - The newest gardening materials - Solutions to seed-starting problems - Source lists for seeds and hard-to-find gardening supplies The robust encyclopedia section lists more than 200 plants―including vegetables and fruits, garden flowers, wildflowers, herbs, trees, and shrubs―with details on how to start each from seed.
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The plant propagator's bible
by Miranda Smith
Demonstrates numerous ways to cultivate new plants, from working with seeds and cuttings to using layering, grafting, and budding techniques, in a reference that provides an A-to-Z directory of more than one thousand plant species and a wealth of troubleshooting tips.
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Starting & Saving Seeds : Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers for Your Garden
by Julie Thompson-Adolf
Are you ready to become a seed-starting and -saving champion? Author and gardening expert Julie Thompson-Adolf will walk you through every step of the journey, making the entire process a joy. In this book you'll find: Extensive plant entries that cover all the most popular vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers; Tips and hints, such as how to encourage stubborn seeds to germinate; Lists to help you find the best plants to add to your garden, whether you want heirloom tomatoes for hot, humid climates or a rainbow of eggplants; Simple DIY projects to aid your seed-starting and -saving adventure; And much more! Whether you're an experienced gardener new to seed starting and saving or a brand-new grower, you'll soon have health, productive, beautiful plants for your garden.
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Composting for a new generation : latest techniques for the bin and beyond
by Michelle Balz
Including tried-and-true composting methods as well as new, innovative techniques—including vermicomposting, integrated composting and in-vessel composting techniques—a full-color guide also includes chapters on the science of composting and harvesting compost, a reference list, and composting recipes.
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The ecological gardener : how to create beauty and biodiversity from the soil up
by Matt Rees-Warren
Transform your garden into a self-sustaining haven for nature and wildlife. Ecological garden designer Matt Rees-Warren shares inspirational design ideas and practical projects to help you create a garden that is both beautiful today and sustainable tomorrow. The Ecological Gardener will give you the tools to create an abundant garden from the soil up - a garden that welcomes birds and bees and showcases native planting and wild flowers, with minimal carbon impact or need for fresh water. It includes practical projects, from rainwater harvesting to vermicomposting, laying a hedgerow to turning your lawn into a wildflower meadow. Matt will help you reimagine how you garden, working with nature instead of controlling it, to create a space that promotes both wildlife and beauty. Design a garden for the future - because what we do as individual gardeners matters.
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Improving your soil : a practical guide to soil management for the serious home gardener
by Keith Reid
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.
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Soil science for gardeners : working with nature to build soil health
by Robert Pavlis
"Soil Science for Gardeners is an easy-to-read, practical guide to the science behind a healthy soil ecosystem and thriving plants. The book debunks common myths, explains soil science basics, and provides the reader with the knowledge to create a personalized soil fertility improvement program for better plants"
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The cook's herb garden
by Jeff Cox
A guide to growing one's own supply of herbs for the home kitchen includes a catalog of 150 culinary herbs and their varieties; more than 30 recipes; step-by-step photos on how to plant, nurture, harvest and store; and flavor charts that list the best herbs to partner with popular ingredients.
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Deerproofing your yard & garden
by Rhonda Massingham
The ultimate primer on dealing with four-legged intruders returns, updated and redesigned, with an expanded list of the plants deer hate, the latest information on deer repellents both commercial and homemade, polyethylene netting, and much more.
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Edible Gardening for the Midwest : Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits & Seeds
by Colleen Vanderlinden
Food plants have their own ornamental value, adding harmony to existing landscapes without creating a separate vegetable garden. They also provide a fresh, healthy alternative to the tasteless and woody fruits and vegetables bred for long-distance transportation and shipped to our grocery stores from all over the world. In this book, we show how, with just a little effort, you can augment your landscape with edibles of every description in an environmentally sustainable manner.
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Fresh from the garden : an organic guide to growing vegetables, berries, and herbs in cold climates
by John Whitman
Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and herbs, right in your own backyard. The guide includes more than 150 edible plants and helps you decide which varieties to choose; where and how to plant, tend, and harvest them; and what to do with your bounty. Fresh from the Garden is a clear, concise guide, with nutrition information tables and hundreds of helpful color photographs. Drawing on more than fifty years of gardening—and nearly as many years writing on the subject—John Whitman describes various methods of planting to make the most of different sites, whether in containers, raised beds, or on level ground, and takes into consideration the abbreviated growing season and longer summer days. He discusses the merits of starting from seed indoors or outdoors, the making and uses of compost, and measures for keeping a garden healthy, from mulching and fertilizing to crop rotation and winter protection. Included in his wealth of knowledge is a generous listing of more than 1,700 varieties of vegetables, berries, and herbs, from the best known to the highly unusual, including hybrid and heirloom varieties. He covers the specifics of cultivation, nutritional values, storage techniques, and culinary usage. Dedicated to organic practices, for the health of gardener and garden alike, the information and advice in Fresh from the Garden will enrich the experience of cold climate gardeners.
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The greenhouse gardener's manual
by Roger Marshall
Describes the necessary tools and techniques to build and maintain a greenhouse, explaining how to select the right one and how to create a healthy environment, and offers profiles and complete growing information for hundreds of flowers, vegetables and ornamental plants. Original.
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Growing flowers : everything you need to know about planting, tending, harvesting and arranging beautiful blooms
by Niki Irving
This book will feature fun, simple and engaging gardening know-how on growing, harvesting and arranging seasonal flowers. It will include chapters on getting started, tools of the trade, getting down and dirty with dirt, growing flowers, harvesting flowers, arranging flowers, seasonal rotation, starting from seeds and/or seedlings and keeping it organic"
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Harvest : unexpected projects using 47 extraordinary garden plants
by Stefani Bittner
A full-color photographed guide to growing, harvesting and utilizing 47 garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements and beauty products reveals the practical and natural applications of common garden favorites.
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Bulbs, indoors or outside
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Buried treasures : finding and growing the world's choicest bulbs
by Jānis Rukésāns
For decades, Janis Rukšans has been scouring remote and dangerous regions of Europe and Asia to bring back the botanical treasures that he describes in this book. Packed with accounts of his extensive travels, Buried Treasures also offers an abundance of trustworthy information about the care and cultivation of every major and minor genus of bulb-forming plant.
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Bulbs for all seasons
by Kathy Brown
Every season bulbs provide a display of spectacular colors and dramatic shapes. Kathy Brown shows how this colorful flamboyance can be used to transform both the garden and the home.
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Bulb forcing for beginners and the seriously smitten
by Art Wolk
The author demonstrates a forcing technique for transforming bulbs into flower plants during the winter through instructions, color photographs, and humorous anecdotes based on his gardening experiences
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Bulbs in containers
by Rod Leeds
Fantastic color photographs and excellent writing make this an inspirational and accessible guide for specialty plant collectors, alpine and rock gardeners, and city gardeners, as well as anyone gardening in small spaces. Readers will learn about the ease and practicality of growing bulbs in containers — bringing year-round color and interest to one's home. Popular classic bulbs are included, as well as a range of more unusual varieties such as the delicate-looking but surprisingly unfussy corydalis, and graceful, late-spring-flowering scillas. The book details how to plan and prepare for a year of flowering bulbs — how to store bulbs during the dormant period and get them ready for planting, how to make homemade shelters to protect plants during the growing season before they begin to flower, and how to create simple accessories that show off the final display. Detailed advice on seed propagation provides gardeners an inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and satisfying method of increasing their range of species bulbs.
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Spring bulbs : daffodils, tulips and hyacinths
by Geoff Stebbings
How many varieties of daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths would you suppose are accessible to garden-variety gardeners? Hundreds is the answer, and you can try any of 240 species and cultivars of daffodils, 190 tulips, and 80 hyacinths, all beautifully photographed in close-ups of blooms and wide views of beds. An award-winning horticulturist, landscape designer, and gardening author provides the basics of how to choose the right ones for your needs, plan their arrangements in beds for a variety of displays, as well as how to plant and care for them to get the most satisfying rewards of exploding color. A special gallery explains how to showcase your handiwork in cut flower arrangements and potted displays for pleasure and for competition.
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Re-growing from scraps and sprouts
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Homegrown : a growing guide for creating a cook's garden
by Marta Teegen
Counsels readers on how to transform ornamental plant gardens with edible produce, identifying a range of yard-friendly raised beds and container gardens that combine practicality and aesthetics, in a reference that profiles more than 40 favorite small-space vegetables.
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How to grow your dinner without leaving the house
by Claire Ratinon
A vegetable garden is not an option for everyone, and so container growing has become desirable for people with little outside space. Many have discovered the love of growing houseplants and want to take their skills to another level; others are inspired by the idea of growing their own food organically and sustainably. The book covers all the essentials of growing a range of edible plants in pots, and meeting each crop's specific needs.
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How to window box : small-space plants to grow indoors or out
by Chantal Aida Gordon
The founders of The Horticult, a gardening and lifestyle site, shows both renters and homeowners how to create a window box—the most accessible garden for any skill level, space or quality of light—through 16 indoor and outdoor projects ranging from succulents to vegetables.
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Incredible vegetables from self-watering containers
by Edward C. Smith
The author of The Vegetable Gardener's Bible explains how to use self-watering containers, filled with deep reservoirs that furnish a constant water supply, to grow a variety of delicious vegetables, explaining how to select appropriate containers and gardening techniques, provide balanced nutrition for plants, and choose the right vegetables. Simultaneous.
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My tiny veg plot : Grow Your Own in Surprisingly Small Places
by Lia Leendertz
Food can be grown just about anywhere and lack of space should not put you off growing and enjoying the taste of your own fresh vegetables. Through inspirational photographs of real plots, this book explores all sorts of possible growing spaces, including small pots on balconies and roof gardens, window boxes, old tires and kitchen sinks, hanging baskets and growbags. Filled with practical advice, inspiration, planting and design ideas, 'My Tiny Veg Plot' gives you information on what to grow and how to grow it. |
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Potted : make your own stylish garden containers
by Annette Goliti Gutierrez
Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn’t have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric. The 23 step-by-step projects are affordable, made from accessible materials, and most importantly, gorgeous. They include new spins on old favorites, like the cinderblock garden made popular by design blogs or hanging planters made from enamelware bowls, along with never-before-seen ideas like a chimney flue planter and wall planters made from paint cans. Packed with color photographs and simple instruction, Potted is for anyone who wants to turn an outdoor space into a stylish oasis.
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At home with plants
by Ian Drummond
Presents advice on the use of house plants in interior decoration, discussing plant care, containers, principles of design, health benefits, and the selection of the right plant for each room
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Glass gardens : easy terrariums, aeriums, and aquariums for your home or office
by Melanie Florence
Not everyone can be Martha Stewart, and luckily you don’t need to be to create beautiful terrariums to display in your space or to give as a gift. With simple instructions and a relaxed and pleasant tone, Glass Gardens speaks to the beginner terrarium-maker as a best friend would over a cup of coffee or tea. You won’t find any overly elaborate or complicated projects here! With just a few supplies and a small amount of time, you’ll have a gorgeous centerpiece to display or give away. Learn how to create stunning, easy-to-maintain terrariums with cacti and succulents, as well as water terrariums (aquariums) with plants you can buy at your local pet store and air terrariums (aeriums), which are by far the easiest type of terrarium to create and keep alive. In Glass Gardens, you’ll be given lists of supplies you’ll need as well as information on where to find them in addition to tips and tricks about the best ways to keep your plants alive and thriving. Easy, step-by-step instructions and detailed photos will have you designing your own glass gardens before you know it.
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Living with plants : a guide to indoor gardening
by Sophie Lee
A guide to indoor gardening shows how to use houseplants to transform the look and feel of a home, including thirty projects ranging from moss wall hangings and air plants to hanging baskets and terrariums
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Miniature terrariums
by Fourwords
A charming guide is filled with ideas, tips and techniques for creating the perfect little Japanese garden, using repurposed glass containers, that will stay healthy and beautiful for many years to come.
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Practical houseplant book
by Fran Bailey
Through 12 inspiring projects, a resource for indoor gardeners, containing 200 in-depth plant profiles, is filled with an abundance of advice, creative inspiration, strong visual aesthetics and practical step-by-step detail for successfully cultivating and caring for houseplants.
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Practical Advice, Science, and Troubleshooting
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The Compendium of Amazing Gardening Innovations
by Abigail Willis
From secateurs to seed bombs, hybrids to ha-has, lawnmowers to land artists, the gardening world has long attracted innovators. This delightful book outlines the advances that changed horticulture and the landscape forever. The fascinating and amusing short entries are accompanied by charming specially created illustrations, making this the ideal gift for the gardener in your life.
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The dictionary of science for gardeners : 6000 scientific terms explored and explained
by Michael Allaby
Defines more than 6,000 words from 16 branches of science that are of particular interest to gardeners, in a book that includes hundreds of illustrations to clarify key definitions and help explain abstract concepts; definitions reflecting the latest developments in science; and coverage of topical issues like climate change, ecology and native plants.
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Gardening hacks : 300+ time and money saving hacks
by Jon VanZile
Make your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom--perfect for any green thumbs, first-time horticulturalists, or reluctant gardeners!
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The incredible journey of plants
by Stefano Mancuso
Beautifully illustrated, in this accessible, absorbing overview, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of plant neurobiology, presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture.
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Lessons from the great gardeners : forty gardening icons and what they teach us
by Matthew Biggs
Like heirloom seeds and grafts from trees, advice from great gardeners handed down through the centuries has shaped the science and art of gardens across the globe. Spanning gardeners from fifteenth-century Japan to the contemporary United States, Lessons from the Great Gardeners profiles forty groundbreaking botanists, nurserymen, and tillers of earth, men and women whose passion, innovation, and green thumbs endure in the formal landscapes and vegetable patches of today. Entries for each gardening great highlight their iconic plants and garden designs, revealing both the gardeners’ own influences and the seeds—sometimes literal—that they sowed for gardens yet to sprout. From André Le Nôtre in seventeenth-century France, who drew on his training as an architect and hydraulic engineer to bring the topiary form to Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, to the work of High Line and Lurie Garden designer Piet Oudolf, and Thomas Jefferson’s advice on creating protected garden microclimates for help growing early crops and tender fruit like figs (with peas, a Jefferson favorite), Lessons from the Great Gardeners is a resource as rich as the soil from which it springs. Featuring lush illustrations harvested from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society, as well as sections on a dozen international gardens that showcase the lessons of the greats, this homage to the love of good, clean dirt is sure to inspire readers to get out in the sun and dig.
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The nature of plants : an introduction to how plants work
by Craig Norman Huegel
Presents an introduction to plants, describing the principles of plant structure and growth, the importance of light, water, and soil, the basics of plant reproduction, the role of hormones, and the existence of plant communication
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Natural disease control
by Beth Hanson
Compiled and published by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, this book offers detailed explanations of the most common diseases, preventative measures, and some of the less-toxic treatments.
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The Science of Gardenng [DVD]
When scientists examine home gardens and landscapes, one fact stands out: The leading cause of landscape failure is not disease and it’s not pests—it’s our own gardening practices. The Science of Gardening will help you create a beautiful and sustainable home garden guided by the newest information from applied plant physiology, biology, soils science, climatology, hydrology, chemistry, and ecology. From choosing and purchasing your trees and shrubs, to giving them the best start in your garden, to healthy maintenance and pest control, award-winning horticulturist Linda Chalker-Scott of Washington State University shows why science-based decisions are always best for your home garden, and also the most ecologically sound for the greater environment. Professor Chalker-Scott describes today’s gardening world as a “Wild West” of products and practices that exist in an almost regulation-free environment. Consequently, we need to look for supporting scientific evidence before making decisions with far-ranging effects. As you learn more about science-based gardening, you’ll understand the need to bust some long-term gardening myths. Although many of us have believed these myths and based our purchases and gardening practices on this advice, we’ve also become frustrated and disillusioned as we’ve watched much of the beautiful landscape we dreamed of, and paid for, wither away. But not any longer. The Science of Gardening shows you how to make the best possible decisions on plant selection, planting, and maintenance. From now on, you won’t need a green thumb to get your garden to grow; you’ll have science on your side!
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Weeds of North America
by Richard Dickinson
Organized by plant family and featuring more than 500 species, a visually stunning and informative guide to North American weeds at every stage of growth provides much-needed background on these intrusive organisms, arming readers with the knowledge they need to win the battle with weeds. Original.
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