Rodale Books, 2009. — 264 p. With The Winter Harvest Handbook, everyone can have access to organic farming pioneer Elliot Coleman’s hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of...
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, 2005. — 864 p. — ISBN: 9781405307604. The Royal Horticultural Society Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening (DK RHS Encyclopedias). From gardening experts at RHS, this book contains the answers to thousands of questions gardeners ask. With over 18,000 plants and essential information on techniques, pests, diseases and simple botany, this is your...
Dorling Kindersley, 2021. — 373 p. — ISBN: 9780744045383. Create a beautiful home garden while reducing your carbon footprint along the way Transform your outdoor space into a low-impact, carbon-absorbing sink with this fantastic gardening guide, packed with ideas to grow a climate-friendly garden that will help protect the planet. Keen on starting your garden but unsure about...
Dorling Kindersley, 2022. — 272 p. — ISBN: 9780241459751. In RHS The Tree in My Garden, award-winning wildlife author Kate Bradbury reveals the amazing effect planting a single tree in your garden can have - and dares to imagine what would happen if every gardener up and down the country did the same. Combining practical gardening advice, eye-opening scientific research,...
Chronicle Books LLC, 2021. — 920 p. World-renowned flower farmer and floral designer and "Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden" and "Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers" best-selling author Erin Benzakein reveals all the secrets to growing, cultivating, and arranging gorgeous dahlias. In these pages, readers will discover: Expert advice for planting, harvesting, and arranging...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2022. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7440-4572-7. Every gardener knows that the key to an abundant harvest in their vegetable garden is controlling pests and disease, while still maintaining a healthy growing environment. But it is possible to have a healthy, thriving vegetable garden without using dangerous chemicals? It is, as long as you know how to...
New Society Publishers, 2017. — 256 p. A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a variety of plants such as fruit and nut trees, shrubs, vines, and perennial herbs and vegetables. Food forests can help increase biodiversity, protect valuable...
Quarry Books, 2021. — 255 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63159-912-5. Never before have mushrooms generated so much interest, for their health benefits and medicinal properties, as well as a new understanding of their crucial role in a healthy environment and ability to regenerate damaged ones. If you are a newcomer, mycology, or the study of mushrooms and other fungi, can seem daunting....
DK Publishing, 2021. — 144 p. — ISBN: 978-0744033700. The Grow series is all about helping you make the most of your green space. Tapping into today's most popular gardening topics, including container gardening, growing your produce, pruning and training, eco-friendly gardening, making your compost, and caring for houseplants, Grow makes gardening simple for new enthusiasts...
DK Publishing, 2002. — 448 p. — ISBN: 9781405300599. Describes and pictures a thousand herbs found both in the wild and in cultivation, and provides tips on growing and harvesting, herb gardens, and herbs in cooking and medicine. A guide to herbs around the globe, covering the practical uses and history of herbs. This volume presents an A-Z of herbs, with cultivation,...
Editors. — Dorling Kindersley, 2021. — 144 p. Keeping your garden in good shape has never been easier! Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance. It's also one of the most difficult parts of gardening. This is your no-fuss guide to learning basic training and pruning techniques. Do you want to know how to prune the shrubs and climbers in your garden but don't know...
Dorling Kindersley, 2017. — 338 p. — ISBN: 9781465457608. Featuring more than 800 plants and step-by-step instructions for pruning and training hundreds of trees, shrubs, and climbing plants, this comprehensive guide is freshly redesigned to help cultivate your perfect garden. With chapters on everything from rosebushes to peach trees, Pruning and Training has advice for every...
3rd edition. — John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021. — 427 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-78207-0. We all love good food, and the fresher it is, the better! And what could be fresher than farm-to-table terms than vegetables you've grown at home? The new edition of Vegetable Gardening For Dummies puts you in touch with your roots in thousands of years old farming traditions by demonstrating how...
Dorling Kindersley, 2009. — 360 p. — ISBN: 9781405329057. DK, Royal Horticultural Society, Chris Young (editor-in-chief), Richard Sneesby, Andrew Wilson, Paul Williams, Andi Clevely, Jenny Hendy. From the publisher of category-killer garden books including encyclopedias on gardening, perennials, plants, and garden plans, here is the only book you will ever need to design your...
DK Publishing, 2021. — 192 p. The best way to attract wildlife to your garden is to build a pond. Discover how to do it, and then watch the wildlife come, month by month. If you want to do your bit to support local biodiversity, pick up a spade and start digging. By putting a pond in your back garden, you have the potential to attract and support a huge array of species. How to...
Editors. — DK Publishing, 2015. — 256 p. Want to grow your vegetables and food, but don't have enough space for a garden? Don't let lack of space get in the way of growing healthy, organic foods at home. Apartment dwellers, schoolteachers, and anyone else who wants to grow a lot of food in a little space will find a great small garden resource in Grow All You Can Eat in 3...
3rd edition. — Stipes, 2008. — 1109 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58874-775-4; ISBN: 978-158874-776-1. A reference guide to the identification and culture of over 3500 herbaceous perennial plant species, varieties, and cultivars. Includes bibliography, common name, and scientific indexes.
DK Publishing, 2017. — 220 p. Make the most of your space, from balconies and windowsills to countertops, walls, and even ceilings, to grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers in your home that look amazing and taste even better. Featuring 28 innovative step-by-step projects, Indoor Edible Garden is a highly visual guide full of practical tips and stylish ideas for how to create...
4th edition. — Quarry Books, 2018. — 243 p. — ISBN: 978-1-63159-577-6. The Backyard Beekeeper, now in its 4th edition, makes the time-honored and complex tradition of beekeeping an enjoyable and accessible backyard pastime that will appeal to urban and rural beekeepers of all skill levels. More than a guide to beekeeping, this handbook features expert advice for: Setting up and...
Archant Specialist. — 140 p. — ISSN 1361-2840. An English-style garden is, arguably, the quintessential ideal of every serious gardener; The English Garden magazine, quite simply, the only magazine devoted to this idyllic gardening tradition.