Gardening Books
Hardcover
A companion to "Burpee Complete Gardener", this book focuses on all aspects of growing organic vegetables and edible herbs in the home garden. Planting techniques and tools, garden design, and more than 90 individual plant portraits are included. 300 full-color photos.
Paperback
For the burgeoning audience of gardeners who wants to grow their own food, even with space constraints, this is the essential, encouraging, hip guide from an urban gardening expert with a huge Internet following. Full-color photographs throughout.
Two expert horticulturists show how to create container gardens of vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers. Two-color line art and halftones throughout.
Now revised to reflect the latest research on plants, soils, tools, and techniques, this comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth gardening reference includes updated and expanded information on planning a garden, and addresses ecological issues more extensively. Illustrations.
The Gourmet Garden" is an organic gardening book for people who truly care about food. It instructs on growing herbs, fruits, vegetables, and even edible flowers. The author's practical seasonal tips will help readers grow fresh, natural ingredients year round.
Covering a revolutionary, new container-garden system that will completely transform a garden, this text includes 33 container profiles that were personally grown by the author. Each profile includes complete planting and maintenance instructions and illustrated demonstrations, along with lots of practical planting and maintenance information.
Crawford creates a complete guide to simple container-gardening designed for anyone who has ever killed a plant. She includes illustrated instructions to create gorgeous, fool-proof container-gardens filled with blue-ribbon plant combos that require no trimming, no fertilizing, and no spraying for up to seven months.
Veteran garden writers Nancy Szerlag of the Detroit News and Alison Beck have created a beautifully photographed book that features over 681 perennials suited to Michigan's climate and growing conditions. Tips on planting, growing, recommended varieties, and problems and pests are included. A Quick Reference Chart provides at-a-glance information on color, blooming, height, hardiness, and light and soil requirements.
Brilliant photographs and down-to-earth advice are packed into this guide to over 443 annuals suited to Michigan's climate. Szerlag and Beck provide information on light, water and nutrient needs, as well as recommendations on how and when to start your plants. This book also includes tips on planting, growing, recommended varieties, and problems and pests.
Spiral Bound
A guide for the budding gardeners of Generation Green. While we'd be the last to label ourselves trendy, occasionally we do find that we're ahead of the curve. Like this ""green"" thing. We published our original guide to messing around in the dirt, Kids Gardening, in 1989. It won the Natural Resources Defense Council International Eco-Award of Excellence and sold more than 400,000 copies. Flash forward a couple of decades. From the White House to your house, everyone is into digging, planting, and getting green in the garden. And we've got just the book for you. Good Growing comes with a selection of ready-to-plant seeds and a custom-designed Super Sprouter, engineered to get those seeds growing within days. Inside, the book is packed with kid-tested and kid-tasted projects that will cultivate lifelong gardeners. The activities can be done year-round, in all types of climates, whether you have a sunny windowsill or a backyard as big as a baseball field. The best part? Good Growing has all the earth-friendly know-how of our earlier book, completely updated for today's greener thumbs. Ready? Set? Grow!
All of the best elements of the beloved first edition are here along with coverage of 15 additional vegetables plus growing information on more fruits and herbs; new photographs in many vegetable entries; and extending the season into the winter months.
Pleasant, a master gardener and award-winning gardening writer, takes the guesswork out of growing food, explaining in simple, straightforward language how to start, maintain, and expand a bountiful vegetable garden in small, manageable spaces.
Choosing color is one of the most delightful and personal choices a gardener makes. This collection features 10 plants in 10 color groups and offers gardeners hundreds of opportunities to mix and match. Color photographs throughout.
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