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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native...
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A revealing peek into the captivating world of gardening in miniature, complete with inspiring photos and practical step-by-step instructions.
A delightful, fun, and endlessly creative new trend is sweeping the gardening world: miniature gardening! With your imagination as the only limit to this infinitely customizable technique, miniature gardening showcases your individuality. Once you've learned how to design, create, and grow tiny plant combinations...
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Help kids grow their own fresh food! Kids will be able to plant and grow ingredients for a fresh salad, make plant markers, a pot scarecrow to keep the birds away and more. Super Simple Salad Gardens will help them learn how. Dig into the world of gardening! Simple text, how-to photos, and garden care advice make it easy and fun. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing.
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224 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"It takes just a few dollars and a few days for you to start enjoying fresh, healthy produce grown indoors in your own home. Imagine serving a home-cooked meal highlighted with beet, arugula, and broccoli microgreens grown right in your kitchen, accompanied by sautéed winecap mushrooms grown in a box of sawdust in your basement. And if you have never tasted microgreens, all you really need to do is envision all the flavor of an entire vegetable plant...
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272 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Square Foot Gardening works; over two million gardeners will agree. That's how many folks have put Mel Bartholomew's innovative grid-based method to the test over the years, and always with the same result: more produce in less space with less work.
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Guides students as they conceive and set up their organic garden for their friends and community.
Describes what it means to grow an organic garden, overviews the equipment and supplies needed, offers advice on setting up and maintaining one, and gives tips on harvesing and using the produce.
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Help kids create a garden full of flowers and butterflies! Kids will be able to plant in their backyard, pick plants butterflies love, make a drinking fountain for butterflies and more. Super Simple Butterfly Gardens will help them learn how. Dig into the world of gardening! Simple text, how-to photos, and garden care advice make it easy and fun.
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Help kids grow plants to cook with in a kitchen garden! Kids will be able to plant and dry sweet-smelling herbs, start their own cilantro seedling, make a pizza garden and more. Super Simple Kitchen Gardens will help them learn how. Dig into the world of gardening! Simple text, how-to photos, and garden care advice make it easy and fun. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing....
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ix, 326 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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General garden-building skills (from "Do I need to dig?" to "Where do I dig?") and specific techniques (from "How do I plant a seed?" to "How much should I water?") are presented in growing-season order -- from garden planning and planting to growing and harvesting. Many other need-to-know topics like soil, compost, seeds, pest control, and weeds are explained in simple language to ensure success, even on a small scale, on the first try. More than...
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159 pages : colour illustrations ; 17 x 21 cm
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"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. Not everyone has access to outside space or what we traditionally think of as a garden, but we all have window ledges, doorways, often stairways, sometimes even a balcony or roof space. This book offers solutions and inspirations for these tricky spots that we frequently overlook or neglect, and highlights some...
15) Organic gardens
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32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm.
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Describes how to make an organic garden.
17) Indoor gardens
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32 pages : color illustrations, ; 21 cm.
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Describes how to plan and create an indoor garden, discussing propagation, making a terrarium, potting plants, feeding and watering, pests, and other problems.
18) Flower gardens
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32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm.
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Provides information and advice on choosing flowers, preparing a place for them to grow, and then planting and caring for them.
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This semi-autobiographical book is about the life of a young English woman who marries an ageing German aristocrat and in the marriage she focuses on her garden and children, at the same time running a country house. She also writes down her observations of the stuffy German aristocratic set using her razor sharp wit. Von Arnim was a successful author in her time and deserves to be re-discovered, this novel is a gem. In the first year of publication...
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