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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Best-selling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting fresh vegetables. You'll discover that container gardening is an easy and fun way to enjoy summer's...
Author
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xi, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Vermont Gardener's Companion tells how to get the most out of Vermont's short gardening season and details how readers can use organic methods to improve soil, deal with diseases and pests, and get better results with their plants in a state where "winter temperatures plunge far below zero and rocks left by the glaciers pop out of the ground each spring like bread from hyperactive toasters." With good humor and a natural teacher's gift for explanations,...
4) The gardener
Author
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
cp1998
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (11 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 v. (unpaged : col. ill. ; 28 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relating what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her Uncle Jim in the city but takes her love for gardening with her.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
213 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vegetable gardening is happening everywhere-in cities and suburbs, in farms and schools, in community gardens and at the White House. And it's happening in houses and apartments, on balconies and porches, and anywhere else people can find the space. 'Small-Space Vegetable Gardens' explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea Bellamy, author of the award-winning blog 'Heavy Petal,' shares all the knowledge...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Strega Nona tries to teach Big Anthony about gardening and the importance of order, but when Anthony does not follow her directions and uses her growing spell, his small vegetable patch turns into an uncontrollable jungle.
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Updated edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Written by Joel Karsten, the originator of Straw Bale Gardening, this exciting update contains detailed, start-to-finish instructions for growing vegetables in straw anywhere, plus many new ideas and projects to help you enjoy your straw bale experience... Among the new subjects: cultivating mushrooms in straw ; how to grow plants in non-straw bales, including hay ; tips and ideas for making your straw bale garden more attractive ; how to make a seasonal...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Janet Lembke loves to garden. But when she moved into her urban home in Virginia, she only had one-eighth of an acre to work with: a small front yard and a small backyard. How she traded a postage-stamp lawn for an edible cornucopia is what this enchanting book is all about.
Lembke joyfully guides us on her gardening journey, in chapters called:
"Tomato Haven"
"The Grass Extermination Project"
"Tools of the Trade"
"How a Garden Grows"
"Herbs"
"Flowers"
"Vegetables"
"Outwitting...
9) The cannabis grow bible: the definitive guide to growing marijuana for recreational and medical use
Author
Publisher
Green Candy Press
Pub. Date
c2017.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 690 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The most comprehensive guide to marijuana gardening ever written is back with all new information and updated advice for cannabis enthusiasts. Over 200 additional pages of all new information are included in this book, from all new lighting equipment and techniques, to highly advanced cannabinoid extraction techniques and detailed, step-by-step gardening guides for novice and professional growers alike."--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hemenway, a permaculture expert and associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, explains how gardens can function as ecosystems, describes the basic parts of an ecological garden (soil, water, plants, and animals), and shows how to create backyard ecosystems through guilds.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
323 p., 16 p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields - resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater...
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Firefly Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
83 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains how farming in the city is important for the planet and describes how to grow food with modern inventions or grow food in old buckets on a balcony.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The book will feature 235 northeastern natives that are the easiest for the home gardener to find and grow. Introductory chapters will address the why and how of growing native plants. Two-thirds of the book will consist of the plant entries that focus on the must-have information that readers are looking for. The geographic area covered will be Maine south to Delaware, west to Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, including all of NY State and the New...
Author
Publisher
Storey Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
ix, 309 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A committed organic gardener, Smith is a proponent of staggered planting in raised, wide and deep beds that provide conductive root systems and produce abundant harvests. He explains his system, from optimum siting and soil preparation (he prefers broad-forking over rototilling or double-digging) to companion planting and compost ('The path to the garden of your dreams leads right through the middle of a compost pile'). For beginners, he takes the...
15) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002, c1991
Physical Desc
xv, 203 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till.
Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near Nimes/Avignon/Uzes. 4 BR, 2 baths, fireplace, books, desk, bikes. Perfect for writing, painting, exploring & experiencing la France profonde. $450 mo. plus utilities." And, with his girlfriend, he...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Language
English
Description
Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies - working an average of two hours a...
Author
Publisher
Whetstone Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sister-companion to Ron Krupp's first book "The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening." Just like the first book "The Woodchuck Returns to Gardening" is rooted in organic methods. The book begins by recounting of two dynamic years in the authors gardens at home and the Tommy Thompson Community Garden in the Intervale in Burlington, Vermont. A jester called the "Chuckster" follows Ron around making fun of his gardening adventures and asking questions that...
20) Green angel
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
116 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by grief and by her past after losing her family in a fire, fifteen-year-old Green retreats into her ruined garden as she struggles to survive emotionally and physically on her own.
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