Hide An environmentally friendly sourcebook that is actually two books in one, providing everything the gardener needs to know about setting up a healthy growing environment within a sunspace, plus a complete guide to growing flowers, vegetables and herbs in the greenhouse. Highly recommended.

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Lush photographs and vividly illustrated drawings make this 200-page book a must-have for the small-home builder. Explore how to make the most of your site, how to optimize the relationship between the indoors and outdoors and how to use details to bring it all together.

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Author Ed Smith shares advice on choosing containers, how to provide balanced nutrition using his secret soil formula, and what additional tools benefit the container gardener. The reader will also find advice on starting from seed versus buying plants, which vegetables thrive in containers and which might be more challenging, along with tips on pairing plants in single containers.

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This 476-page book is a compendium of treasured knowledge from hundreds of small booklets published as "Country Wisdom Bulletins" in the 1970s. Whether you want to build a stone fence, make strawberry-rhubarb jam or plant an herb garden, this book will show you how.

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This comprehensive guide offers tips on how to grow more than 130 herbs in the conditions peculiar to the American South. With 300 color photographs, this 190-page book tells what to plant, when to plant it and how to take care of it.

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Trees and shrubs can be the heart and soul of the home landscape, providing spring blossoms, summer fruit, a regal silhouette, rough and rugged bark and seasonally changing foliage. Learn how to use them effectively with this comprehensive handbook, covering all the essentials of woody plant gardening. In addition to basic design principles and plant selection and care, the handbook features an extensive encyclopedia of hundreds of tree and shrub profiles, covering ease of cultivation, availability, history, hardiness, size and growth rate, and special characteristics.

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This book turns the compost bin upside down with a natural six-way gardening system of keeping compost heaps right in the garden, rather than in some dark corner behind the garage. The compost and the plants live together from the beginning in a nourishing, organic environment.

Barbara Pleasant's bountiful, compost-rich gardens require less digging, weeding, mulching, and even less planting. And here's one of the best parts — no more backbreaking slogs from compost bin to garden. The authors even identify the plants that benefit most from compost and how the elements of a composted garden work together. A natural Six-Way Compost Gardening System provides the ruling principles for successfully improving every garden with healthy compost.

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A perfect lawn may not always be a good thing, as manicured lawns are high-maintenance, chemical-dependent water guzzlers. This handsome, informative and amusing book should serve as an inspiration to those who are tired of manicured lawns.

Alternatives to the traditional lawn effectively cut down on water usage and may also play host to beneficial insects and birds. Once the desire to do away with grass takes root, readers can turn to author Liz Primeau for help in rejuvenating a front yard so that flowers, foliage textures, and hardscaping come together in inviting swaths to both beautify and benefit the environment.

Useful as a source book, this volume presents photographs and text that suggest potential ideas to increase curb appeal through the transformation of front yards and parkways.

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Beginning with the down-to-earth basics of soil, sun and water, fertilizer and seeds and propagation, The Bountiful Container is an extraordinarily complete guide to container gardening. Written by two seasoned container gardeners and writers, McGee and Stuckey share their expertise and experience in the art of container gardening.

Armed with this manual, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their passion for growing edible things. If there is an available balcony, porch, front or back steps, growing produce in containers can be easy and rewarding. With some limitations, it is even possible to grow foods in a window box or on an indoor windowsill.

This collection of practical advice includes detailed information on the types of containers to use, equipment needed, the right soil, when to plant which seeds and how best to deal with problems such as too much or too little sunlight. Written for the beginner as well as for those with a background in gardening, the book contains comprehensive, clearly written and frequently inspiring directions from authors McGee and Stuckey.

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Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn documents the first four Edible Estates prototype gardens with personal accounts written by the owners, garden plans and photographs illustrating the creation of the gardens as the domestic lands are turned into highly productive edible garden landscapes.

The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. It was initiated by architect and artist Fritz Haeg. Essays by Haeg, landscape architect Diana Balmori, garden and food writer Rosalind Creasy, author Michael Pollan and artist and writer Lesley Stern set the Edible Estates project in the context of larger issues concerning the environment, global food production and the imperative to generate a sense of community in our urban and suburban neighborhoods.

This book also includes reports and photographs from the owners of other edible front yards around the country, as well as helpful resources to turn your own lawn into an abundant food garden.