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How To Grow Zucchini: Zucchini is probably one of the easiest and fastest growing vegetables you can grow in your garden, or in a large enough container.
Although they are easy to grow, as with all things, they do have a few preferences. 'How to Grow Zucchini' takes you through the process and gives you the heads up on what to watch out for.
You can grow most zucchini in containers if garden space is limited, and there are so many shapes and colours...
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How To Grow Potatoes. Potatoes are so common in the western diet that we imagine they've been around forever. But although evidence suggests potatoes were used around 500BC, the potato had a bad reputation for many centuries and was thought by some cultures to be an evil vegetable.
The leaves, stems and fruits of the potato plant are poisonous so the reputation stuck for a while. Potatoes aren't particularly attractive to look at either, BUT they...
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How To Grow Green Beans is a perfect start to growing fresh organic food for yourself and your family and friends. There are many different types of beans and depending on your climate, you may be able to grow some of the more exotic varieties. How to grow Green Beans will help you grow green beans that can be grown pretty much anywhere.
This guide includes a little about green beans and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
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How To Grow Tomatoes. Tomatoes are a gardener's dream. There really is nothing quite like the taste of a homegrown organic fresh tomato. There are hundreds of different varieties of tomato which fall into roughly four different types:- Regular everyday tomato- Cherry tomatoes- Plum tomatoes- Beefsteak tomatoes. You can grow most tomatoes in containers if garden space is limited, and you can also plant them in random places round the garden. There...
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How to Grow Blackberries is a mini guide to growing these power packed fruits at home. Treat yourself and your family to the freshest, tastiest fruits that will boost your immune system and keep the family coming back for more.
Train a wild bramble patch or buy in a hybrid. Find tips on both, and also a couple of ways to propagate new plants. This guide includes a little about blackberries and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
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For the same price, or less than, a packet of seeds, this handy mini-book is full of useful tips for growing peppers. Sweet peppers (or bell peppers) and chili peppers come in all shapes, sizes and colours.
This guide includes a little about peppers and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
Plus:*Suggested varieties - images and descriptions of a few regular garden varieties*Planting and general care tips - looking after your...
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How To Grow Carrots takes you step by step through the growing process and is a perfect way to introduce a fresh organic stunning root vegetable to your diet. ONE carrot has enough Vitamin A for an average adult, on a daily basis. Just the ONE! Carrots come in all sorts of colours, shapes and sizes and the fatter shorter varieties can be grown in everyday pots and containers.
This guide includes a little about carrots and healthy reasons why you...
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How to Grow Blackcurrants is a mini guide to growing these vitamin C packed fruits at home. Treat yourself and your family to the freshest, tastiest fruits that will boost your immune system and keep the family coming back for more.
Blackcurrants tend to be hardy plants and will grow with the minimum of TLC. And they can supply you with new plants as well as delicious fruits. This guide includes a little about blackcurrants and healthy reasons...
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There are probably thousands, or at least hundreds, of different varieties of lettuce that can be grown at home, from red-tinged leaves to Cos varieties. There's no reason why you couldn't be growing a few lettuces in the garden, or in containers or pots if space is limited.There are four main types of lettuce, including the cut-and-come again varieties - harvest a few leaves off one plant every day and the plant will be encouraged to produce more...
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How To Grow GarlicGarlic can be started very early in the year in many regions, even if you have snow all winter there are still ways to grow garlic that will see you through next winter. This mini guide takes you through the process of growing garlic, when and how to harvest it,and the best way to store your crop.This guide includes a little about garlic and healthy reasons why you should include it in your diet.Plus:*Suggested varieties - images...
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Apples and pears have similar growing requirements so this guide is 'two for the price of one'!
And, with all the hybrid varieties available, you don't need an orchard to grow these healthy fruits.
This guide to growing apples and pears includes a little about apples and pears and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
Plus:*A buying checklist - what you should look for before buying your tree*Suggested varieties - images and...
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There are loads of different varieties of onions that can be grown in the home garden, or in containers or pots if space is limited. - Everyday kitchen onions- Large Spanish onions- Spring onions- Everlasting onions- Tree onions- Red onions- ShallotsTree Onions, or Japanese onions, grow above ground on plants that look like small onion trees! They do have particular growing requirements. But for everyday onions, this mini-book is an instant reference...
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How to Grow Raspberries. How to Grow Raspberries is a mini guide to growing these power packed fruits at home. Treat yourself and your family to the freshest, tastiest fruits that will boost your immune system and keep the family coming back for more.
Raspberries tend to be hardy plants and will grow with the minimum of TLC. And they can supply you with new plants as well as delicious fruits. Find out how...*Suggested varieties -images and descriptions...
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How to Grow Lemons is a mini guide to growing these vitamin C packed fruits at home. Treat yourself to a G & T with your own organic slice of lemon!
Although lemon trees need a little care and attention, they reward you with the most wonderful fruits and their beauty.
This guide includes a little about lemons and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
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How To Grow Broccoli is a perfect start to growing fresh organic food for yourself and your family and friends. Broccoli has a great reputation as a super food and there's no reason why you couldn't be growing fresh organic varieties of broccoli in a small space or even in a container.
This guide includes a little about broccoli and healthy reasons why you should include it in your diet.
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DON'T LIMIT YOUR GARDEN'S HARVEST TO SUMMER!
Discover the joys of growing and harvesting fresh produce that you can eat all winter long with this essential guide from home and garden expert Linda Gray. Growing Winter Food will show you how to enjoy a delicious array of healthy roots, legumes, green vegetables, herbs, and fruits long after the thermometer- and the snow- have fallen. The author provides detailed cultivation advice for each crop, along...
17) Herbs and Spices
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This clear and concise directory provides all the essential information readers need to grow, use, and store a wide selection of flavor-enhancing herbs and spices. Some herbs are annuals, some are perennials, and some can be grown indoors-but all of those highlighted here can be grown either in pots or directly in the soil. Each individual plant profile includes detailed growing advice. Home and garden expert Linda Gray tells how to prepare the soil,...
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