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Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Language
English
Formats
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...
24) 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.
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Many gardeners find that once they have children gardening goes the way of late-night dinner parties and Sunday morning sleep-ins. Raising kids and maintaining a garden can be a juggling act, leaving the family garden forgotten and neglected. But kids can make great gardening companions, and the benefits of including them are impossible to ignore. Gardening gets kids outdoors and away from television and video games, increases their connection
...Author
Publisher
Storey Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
x, 310 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide to designing beautiful perennial gardens that provides step-by-step instructions for choosing perennials, making the most of plant color, shape, size, and texture, creating plant combinations, and more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
232 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
How to transform a front yard from grass to a garden. Includes garden styles, tips on creating and maintaining the garden, planting suggestions, and examples of more than 70 front-yard gardens across North America.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors, cofounders of the garden design firm North Hill in Vermont, provide an account of the garden they have created together, sharing information about garden design, different plants and their cultivation, the development of the garden, and its probable demise.
Author
Publisher
Cool Springs Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Filled with easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency no matter how much land you have, The Modern Homestead Garden focuses on planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving food"--
Homesteading is a lifestyle based on simple living, producing more than you consume, and treading lightly on the land. Pilarchik provides easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency, no matter how much land...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 194 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of life together, a tribute to an utterly unique garden, a wonderfully idiosyncratic guide for cooks and gardeners interested in exploring the possibilities of farm-to-table living—To Eat is all of these things and more. In 1974, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd moved from Boston to southern Vermont, where they became the proprietors of a twenty-eight-acre patch of wilderness. The land was forested, overgrown, and wild, complete...
36) Pumpkin, pumpkin
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
23 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"First Scholastic printing, September 1989."--verso t.p.Reprint: Originally published: New York : Greenwillow Books, c1986.Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it and saves some seeds to plant in the spring. "Share the Adventure" collection--Recommended books for Kindergartners--look for purple spine label.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated guide to producing over thirty different crops year-round using unheated or minimally heated greenhouses; and offers tips on greenhouse construction, planting schedules and crop management, harvesting, and marketing.
39) Grow vegetables
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering—interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter.
The Layered Garden...
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