Cool Flowers
Title | Cool Flowers PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Mason Ziegler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780989268813 |
Presents simple techniques for an early spring garden of color profiling 30 hardy annual flowers.
Roses Love Garlic
Title | Roses Love Garlic PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Riotte |
Publisher | Storey Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2012-07-06 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 161212187X |
From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden’s productivity. Roses Love Garlic profiles hundreds of plants, features sample garden designs, and includes recipes for using your harvest to make herbal cosmetics, medicinal mixtures, and plant-based dyes. You’ll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways plants work together as you tend to a thriving and bountiful garden. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Plant Partners
Title | Plant Partners PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Walliser |
Publisher | Storey Publishing, LLC |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2020-12-22 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1635861330 |
Companion planting has a long history of use by gardeners, but the explanation of why it works has been filled with folklore and conjecture. Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for this ever-popular growing technique, offering dozens of ways you can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit your whole garden. Through an enhanced understanding of how plants interact with and influence each other, this guide suggests specific plant combinations that improve soil health and weed control, decrease pest damage, and increase biodiversity, resulting in real and measurable impacts in the garden.
Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener
Title | Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Tychonievich |
Publisher | Timber Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2013-03-12 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1604695374 |
Brighter zinnias, fragrant carnations, snappier green beans Plant Breeding for the Home Gardener makes it easier than ever to breed and grow your own varieties of vegetables and flowers. This comprehensive and accessible guide explains how to decide what to breed, provides simple explanations on how to cross plants, and features a basic primer on genetics and advanced techniques. Case studies provide breeding examples for favorite plants like daffodils, hollyhocks, roses, sweet corn, and tomatoes.
Easy Container Combos
Title | Easy Container Combos PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Crawford |
Publisher | Color Garden Incorporated |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Container gardening |
ISBN | 9780971222090 |
"Attractive, easy vegetable/flower combinations"--Cover.
My Vegetable Love
Title | My Vegetable Love PDF eBook |
Author | Carl H. Klaus |
Publisher | HMH |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-07-08 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 0544343522 |
“Home gardeners, cooks and nature lovers will savor this delightful account” of a journey from first spring planting to final fall harvest (Publishers Weekly). My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season in Iowa—but it’s about much more than planting peppers, tending tomatoes, or harvesting eggplants. It’s about all the things that influence this gardener: the weather, the neighborhood, his wife’s possibly recurring cancer, the changing nature of the academic community. It’s about the last months of his twenty-year-old cat, about his dog, and about all the other humans and animals in his gardening world. And about his family: the aunts and uncles who cared for and fed a six-year-old orphan, and helped him understand that good food was a way of knowing that someone cared. In all the gardens he has tended, the dills he has pickled, and the dinners he has cooked, Carl H. Klaus has tried to carry on that tradition and pass it on to his own children—and in this “delectable” book, he shares it with us as well (Publishers Weekly). “Part Gilbert White, part Henry David Thoreau, this chronicle of an Iowa gardener’s year has drawn from the heartland a calm, compassionate harvest.” —Roger B. Swain, host of PBS’s Victory Garden “Wholeheartedly celebrates friendship, love, pets, the elements of family, academia, cooking, eating—and of course, gardening . . . Bon appétit—and good reading.” —Smithsonian
The Ornamental Vegetable Garden
Title | The Ornamental Vegetable Garden PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Anthony |
Publisher | Warwick House Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Edible landscaping |
ISBN | 9781894020558 |
Louis the XIV commissioned a landscape gardener to design the Potager de Roi at Versailles. Many of the fruit and vegetable pruning systems developed by this gardener are still in use today. This beautiful book illustrates the design and planting of the ornamental vegetable garden, where aesthetics and practicality combine to create edible gardens.