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How to Grow Food: Your Crop-By-Crop Guide to Growing, Cooking, & Preserving
by Huw Richards
Gardener Huw Richards and chef Sam Cooper bridge the gap between the garden and kitchen, profiling the growing and cooking of 70 crops. In this super-practical companion for all kitchen gardeners, each crop has no-nonsense growing information on spacing, sowing, and harvesting, accompanied by delicious and simple recipes for food made well. Whether you have containers on a balcony or acres of land, easy guides show the number of plants you can grow per square meter and the approximate harvest per plant so you can easily work out how many plants to grow and expected yield. There are also suggestions for the best varieties to grow for resilience and flavor. Recipes are easily adapted depending on how much you harvest and range from dishes to eat right away, such as a root vegetable tartiflette, and preserves to enjoy later, like a tomato sauce to add to pastas and stews. So if you're motivated by food and flavor, The Homegrower's Companion has everything you need to grow, harvest, store, and cook the tastiest fresh produce.
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The healthy vegetable garden : a natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases
by Sally Morgan
"Whether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop. In The Healthy Vegetable Garden, expert organic gardener Sally Morgan explains how to use natural approaches to cope with the challenges of a changing climate through principles from regenerative gardening, agroecology, and permaculture-all to help your green space thrive. The Healthy Vegetable Garden shows you how to: Combat disease and keep pests at bay with natural predators, companion planting, and trap and barrier crops Choose the right plants to attract pollinators and pest predators Build a healthy soil full of organic matter, earthworms, and mycorrhizal fungi Regenerate soil through no-dig practices, composting, cover crops, and mulching Boost biodiversity through the use of crop rotations and polyculture Rewild your garden by creating a range of habitats, makinguse of walls and fences, log piles, water features, and wild corners Understand plant defenses and use biocontrols Make natural barriers, traps, and lures A healthy, productive garden should work in harmony with nature to produce and protect delicious fruits and vegetables and build a rich soil that is full of life. With The Healthy Vegetable Garden, growers of all levels will start reducing incidents of pests and diseases while creating a verdant habitat-all without the need for fertilizers, pesticides,or weedkillers"
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The garden primer
by Barbara Damrosch
An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to gardening offers advice on buying plants, selecting tools, and growing annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, fruits, bulbs, roses, ground covers, shrubs, and trees, in a volume that emphasizes the use of native plant species, the techniques of organic gardening, and coverage of ecological issues. Simultaneous.
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Weeds : in defense of nature's most unloved plants
by Richard Mabey
Weaving together natural history, botanical science and insight from his own travels, a prominent nature writer reveals the many hidden truths behind these scourges of lawns and gardens, and explores how weeds have been portrayed from the Bible all the way to Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 25,000 first printing.
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The magical world of moss gardening
by Annie Martin
“Mossin' Annie” shows readers how to plant and use the green velvety plant, immune to most bugs, diseases, and pests, to add color, texture and shape, as well as erosion control and run-off protection to any outdoor area. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
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The story of gardening
by Penelope Hobhouse
Penelope Hobhouse, the legendary authority on garden history, composes a beautifully crafted, lavishly illustrated history of gardening over millennia. From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the clean lines of the French parterre, The Story of Gardening draws fascinating connections among gardens across time and place. Hobhouse addresses styles and techniques from all over the world, revealing the origins of the world's most magnificent gardens. Award-winning journalist and garden historian Ambra Edwards worked alongside Hobhouse to bring this comprehensive classic up-to-date with today's most recent garden developments and trends
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Becoming a gardener : what reading and digging taught me about living
by Catie Marron
Combining informed opinion, personal reflection and practical advice this guide to uncovering the characteristics that make someone a gardener highlights topics like dirt composition, the healing power of digging in the soil and the beauty of solitude in nature. Illustrations.
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The beginner's guide to growing great vegetables
by Lorene Edwards Forkner
A novice-friendly, month-by-month reference by the former Pacific Horticulture editor and author of The Handmade Garden includes coverage of such topics as soil health, sun exposure, correct watering and effective mulching and fertilizing. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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Starter vegetable gardens : 24 no-fail plans for small organic gardens
by Barbara Pleasant
Making organic vegetable gardening easy, fun and rewarding, this second edition presents detailed planting plans for 24 beginner-friendly gardens to fit any site, encouraging readers to start small, grow the food they love and expand their plant selection as their skills develop. Original. 15,000 first printing. Illustrations.
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Edible houseplants : grow your own citrus, coffee, vanilla, and 43 other tasty tropical plants
by Laurelynn G. Martin
The nationally renowned owners of Logee's Plans for Home & Garden provide guidance for planting and growing 46 food-bearing tropical plants that can be grown in containers indoors, including lemons, limes, grapefruit, cherries, olives, passion fruit, papaya and vanilla. Original. Illustrations.
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A flower garden for pollinators
by Rachel De Thame
"Rachel de Thame highlights plants we can grow that are rich in nectar and pollen, ensuring the garden is filled with beautiful flowers for us all to enjoy year-round. Arranged by season and illustrated with watercolors and photography"
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The garden maker's book of wonder
by Allison Vallin Kostovick
A popular gardening lifestyle influence and creator of Finch + Folly draws on her decades of gardening experience to offer wisdom on growing bountiful harvests of favorite vegetables, herbs and flowers, and provides projects, activities and recipes for enjoying the magic and whimsy of the natural world. Illustrations.
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The well-gardened mind : the restorative power of nature
by Sue Stuart-Smith
A well-respected psychiatrist and avid gardener provides a new perspective on the power of gardening to change people's lives, investigating the many ways in which mind and garden can interact. 40,000 first printing.
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Unearthing The secret garden : the plants and places that inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett
by Marta McDowell
McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the writer who dominated the literary world of her time. A lover of flowers and gardens, Burnett's path to literary triumph was a long one. McDowell reminds us why Burnett's 1911 novel, The secret garden, continues to touch readers after more than a century
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