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Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy, relaxation and accomplishment
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"Naturalistic gardens increase biodiversity, provide refuge for wildlife, and are an essential keystone for reconnecting the human world to the natural one. Knowing how to create a lush, thriving, and ecologically vibrant landscape might seem intimidating and out of reach, but horticulturist Kelly Norris and New Naturalism are here to help you design and plant a stunning oasis of nature-inspired plantings that thrive."--Back cover
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Would you like to grow a vegetable and fruit garden but feel like it just takes way too long? Well, the amazing thing is, it doesn't have to. Instead, you can plant some faster-growing veggies and fruit, plus have some great fresh green food options to choose from. These vegetables and fruit can produce a harvest in as little as four weeks, and they give your family and friend fresh greens to eat as you wait for the abundant harvest at the end of...
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Put that spare PVC pipe to work with more than 50 inventive, step-by-step projects that yield tough and durable storage, furniture, gardening, toys, and much more, with The PVC Pipe Book.
With a few simple fittings, common home-improvement-store PVC pipe can be treated much like building blocks. Learn to engineer it in new ways for DIY projects that prove useful indoors and outside.
Whether you're a homeowner, gardener, homesteader, prepper, or...
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The Pallet Book is an inspiring and ingenious project-oriented book for the home DIY enthusiast! Author Chris Peterson presents everything the enterprising handyperson needs to know to reclaim and reuse pallets in innovative, useful ways. Just some of the projects included are:A handy vertical planter Coffee table Spice rack. Serving tray. Compost bin. Dog house. Bookshelves. Wine bottle rack. Side table. Adirondack chair Some projects, like the...
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392 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape - one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. The Living Landscape is your roadmap to a richer,...
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Home gardening the natural way.
Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience of organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden.
Taking care of the soil life and fertility provides plants with what they need to thrive. This is grounded in the latest scientific research on soil health, ecological...
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427 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Essential Perennials helps you decide exactly which plants will bring you the beauty you want and will thrive in the conditions you can provide. Trusted garden experts Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher focus on what every gardener needs to know. For each plant you'll find flower color, season of bloom, foliage characteristics, height and width, light requirements, and hardiness and heat sensitivity. You'll also learn cultural tips, the...
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Upcycle that unwanted wood! The New Pallet Book updates a unique woodworking book with 25+ new ways to take a stack of pallets and put them to use.
Join home improvement author Chris Peterson for a complete guide to deconstructing and repurposing pallets. This edition, with tons of new content and more than 50 projects and ideas, features everything from dead-simple builds like pathway pavers and a mug holder to more challenging projects like a recycling...
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PVC pipe is cheap, versatile, durable and simple to work with. Homesteader Charles Sanders has come up with 101 projects that can be, constructed from PVC piping, including a small-scale greenhouse, hanging planters, livestock or pet feeders, gutter cleaners, and a wide range of containers, holders, and racks for just about anything. With dozens of different types of fittings and couplings, almost any PVC project is a snap. Enterprising homesteaders...
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256 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
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"The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends will learn how they can expand their activity and help address the pressing issue of habitat loss with 100 Plants to Feed the Birds. In-depth profiles offer planting and care guidance for 100 native plant species that provide food and shelter for birds throughout the year, from winter all the way through breeding and migrating periods. Readers will learn...
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319 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
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"'The Fruit Gardener's Bible' is the complete reference on planting, growing, caring for, and harvesting everything from strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries to orchard fruits like apples, pears, peaches, cherries, almonds, and walnuts. A perfect companion to the best-selling The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, The Fruit Gardener's Bible has all the information you need to successfully grow fruits and nuts at home."--Publisher description.
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xvi, 269 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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As more people flock to urban areas to live, nowhere are the empowering principles of permaculture more needed and desired than in our cities. Author Toby Hemenway (Gaia's Garden) demonstrates that the same nature-based approach that connects the pieces of our landscape together in harmonious ways applies perfectly to our need for water, shelter, food, energy, livelihood, and community. Hemenway moves beyond urban gardening and offers readers practical...
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Whether you want to dabble in the homesteading movement or immerse yourself completely in the do-it-yourself, back-to-basics lifestyle, Welcome to the Farm is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to growing the very best food right in your own backyard. Shaye Elliott takes readers on a journey that teaches them how to harvest baskets full of organic produce, milk a dairy cow (and make butter), plant a homestead orchard, can jams and jellies, and...
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Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps ... From beekeeping to basket weaving to baking, this handy guide has everything you need to...
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