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From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain, and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States showcases her excursions to historic gardens around the world. Through her own experiences LeClercq enables the garden adventurer to anticipate the world of color, design, and...
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"This book is sure to be a modern classic and is one of the most important books on gardening in the current century." -Jere Gettle, founder, Baker Creek Heirloom SeedsHeirloom Vegetable Gardening has always been a book for gardeners and cooks interested in unique flavors, colors, and history in their produce. This updated edition has been improved throughout with growing zones, advice, and new plant entries. Line art has been replaced with lush,...
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Tomaten begeistern Groß und Klein mit ihrer großen Vielfalt an Formen, Farben und Ge-schmacksrichtungen. Sie sind voller gesunder Inhaltsstoffe und noch dazu vielseitig verwertbar. Nicht umsonst sind die paradiesischen Früchte, auch Paradeiser genannt, so beliebt. In den letzten Jahren sind Tomaten zum Top- Gemüse avanciert und werden im Garten genauso gerne angebaut wie im Topf auf dem Balkon. Ältere, aber auch manch neuere Sorten sind für...
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Buying individual plants can be expensive-but raising your own saves money and gives lots of gardening satisfaction. Every aspect of the art of propagation is covered, from the philosophy behind creating plants to the easiest species to grow to the best materials and equipment. All the major methods receive well-illustrated, in-depth, and easy to follow explanations, including seeds and cuttings, division and layering, and budding and grafting, and...
27) Cottage Gardens
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A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style featuring cottage gardens from around the country. Features gardens created by famous writers including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Beatrix Potter. A celebration of a beloved and uniquely British garden style. The cottage garden's abundant, informal style is rooted in Victorian dreams of a perfect country life. But it has found new expressions from the Arts & Crafts movement to the...
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The Gardener's Guide to Starting Seeds is the complete guide to starting seeds. From direct sow to planting under grow lamps this guidebook provides loads of information about growing seeds. Information on LED, incandescent and fluorescent lighting as well. Storing SeedsThe guide also provides information about storing seeds. Most seeds will stay viable for several years, if stored properly.Saving SeedThose into saving seed will find valuable information...
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When someone wants to start growing cannabis, they may be filled with questions: Is it legal? Can it be done inside or outside? It is hard to grow? In this book, you'll find a clear, step-by-step manual to the world of marijuana. Longtime licensed Oregon-based medical-grower Alicia Williamson explains the entire process from choosing seeds or clones to proper curing and storage of harvest. You'll also find:
Information on the legality of growing....
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Histories, medicinal uses, and recipe ideas for food plants from A to Z.
Focusing on the most growable vegetables, herbs, and fruits for the greatest number of people, Jack Staub tells the stories of their origins and apprises the home gardener on ways to use them, from the table to remedies and potions. Up-to-the-minute cultivation and culinary advice are delivered with accessibility and wit.
Watercolor art makes the pages beautiful.
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Learn how to make a Californian home landscape more attractive and functional with California Home Landscaping, 4th Edition. This must-have resource is an updated edition of Creative Homeowner's award-winning best seller on landscaping California-style. The 48 featured landscape designs are created by professionals from the region and use more than 200 plants that thrive in California's climate. Detailed instructions for projects, such as paths, patios,...
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The Gardener's Guide to Gardening Tools serves as a primer of hand and power tools, for the beginner or veteran gardener. Basic information about most home garden tools such as trowels, pruners and shovels are included as well as some information about garden tillers, weed eaters and blower/vacuums. Garden maintenance is much easier if you have the right tool for the job. Use the Gardener's Guide to Gardening Tools as a primer on yard and garden equipment...
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Démystifiez les pouvoirs cachés de la magie ancienne avec ce guide simple sur la magie verte.
Toute sorcière peut insuffler dans sa vie de tous les jours la pratique et l'expérience du surnaturel grâce à la magie verte. Ce guide facile à comprendre vous introduit doucement dans le monde de la magie verte qui nous entoure et, en même temps, explique les anciennes pratiques sous des formes faciles à comprendre pour vous aider à saisir et...
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Home Gardener's Herb Gardens is the essential guide to growing herbs and designing, planting, improving, and caring for herb gardens. People now use herbs in their cooking on an everyday basis and there's nothing nicer than being able to go out into your garden, snip some fresh herbs and put them straight into the pot. The beauty of an herb garden is that it does not have to be big - it can be part of a larger garden or it can merely be a window box....
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Discover the definitive guide to cultivating top-quality medicinal Cannabis in greenhouses with Agro4pro's cutting-edge manual. Backed by rigorously reviewed scientific research, this manual demystifies Cannabis cultivation, revealing it as just another crop in the hands of skilled farmers and gardeners.Introducing the Alternative to Organic (ATO) growing system, this guide ensures a consistent chemical profile for Cannabis, vital for patient reliability....
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If you are interested in growing African Violets this book is for you. It contains all the information needed for you to produce beautiful African violets. It tells you about lighting, temperature, soil, and water requirements. It also describes how to duplicate those African Violet plants you love and how to develop new varieties that are all your own.
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A guide to organic vegetable gardens and small-scale farming with an emphasis on sustainability. Biodynamic farming, with its focus on ecological sustainability, has emerged as the gold standard in the organic gardening movement. Daron Joffe-known as Farmer D-has made it his mission to empower, educate, and inspire people to become conscientious consumers, citizens, and stewards of the land. In this engaging call to action, Farmer D teaches us to...
38) Herbal
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• Produced in association with the Chelsea Physic Garden
• Superbly illustrated with photographs from the author's own herb garden, Chelsea Physic Garden and travels worldwide as well as plates from ancient herbals
• An authoritative but accessible text designed to appeal to experts and novices
Herbs contribute to many aspects of everyday living. Healing herbs have always been used as remedies; herbs are used in the kitchen for flavour and aroma;...
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Keeping garden soil in good health is an essential part of gardening, and compost is the home gardener's most effective way to maintain fertile, well aerated, and moisture-retentive soil. This abundantly illustrated book gives gardeners all the guidance they need to start making, storing, and using their own compost. It offers information on the different types of compost and their ingredients, advice on constructing a compost bin, and detailed explanations...
40) Apples
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Information on apples for every occasion, covering dessert, cooking and cider varieties. Delicious recipes on everything from apple crumble to making cider. Packed with practical advice on growing and picking your own apples. Everyone wants to eat local, home-grown fruit and vegetables and this helpful guide is a wonderful sourcebook of the quintessential English fruit – the apple. Covering a range of apple varieties that can be found growing in...
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