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Grow What You Love: 12 Food Plant Families To Change Your Life

Emily Murphy · Firefly Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

An accessible guide that shows how easy it is to grow your favorite produce. Grow What You Love is designed to be a simple guide to growing vegetables, herbs and more that will add to the flavor and variety of fresh produce choices throughout the year. Aimed at novice and experienced gardeners...
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The DIY Home Planner: Practical Tips and Inspiring Ideas to Decorate It Yourself

KariAnne Wood · Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Your Decorating Dreams Can Come True Welcome to the only house decorating journal you'll ever need. Come inside and make yourself comfortable. As you enter, you'll find encouragement and inspiration to get your decorating journey started, as well as helpful instructions on how to use this...
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Vegetables Love Flowers: Companion Planting for Beauty and Bounty

Lisa Mason Ziegler · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will...
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Screen-Free Fun: 400 Activities for the Whole Family

SHANNON PHILPOTT-SANDERS · Adams Media
Pages: 224
Format: Print Length

Fight back against boredom and keep your kids busy and entertained - without staring at a screen - with this handy collection of family activities ranging from DIY projects to outdoor adventures to easy daytrips.While technology often offers a quick and easy parenting solution to keep children...
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Color Me Floral: Stunning Monochromatic Arrangements for Every Season

Kiana Underwood · Chronicle Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Learn the secrets to designing showstopping monochromatic arrangements in this spectacular guide from floral artist Kiana Underwood. Underwood shares her techniques for creating dazzling single-color displays using inspired ingredients, dramatic textures, and vibrant colors. Organized by season,...
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Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition: The Latest Styles, Appliances, Features and Tips for Renovating Your Kitchen

Chris Peterson · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

From the latest in backsplashes to elegant faucet fixtures, Kitchen Ideas You Can Use, Updated Edition helps you create the kitchen of your dreams. The kitchen is one of the most popular DIY home renovation projects, with simple upgrades and wholesale renovations both contributing to the value...
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Raised Row Gardening: Incredible Organic Produce with No Tilling and Minimal Weeding

JIM COMPETTI · Page Street Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Easier and Cheaper to Set Up Than Raised Beds!For homeowners young and old looking for the easiest and most affordable way to grow the most vegetables, the Raised Row method shared in this breakthrough book is the new go-to choice. In the past decade, raised bed gardening has been wildly...
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Grow Your Own: How to Be an Urban Farmer

ANGUS LEAKE SIMON STEWART · Murdoch Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Urban environments require specific techniques to optimise growing conditions for plants. Two leading experts in horticulture and soil science teach the reader how to grow their own food - from the ground up - in this authoritative, accessible, generously photographed guide. Grow Your Own Food...
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Child's Play Quilts: Make 20 Stash-Busting Quilts for Kids

Stacey Day · C&T Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Improve your quilt designs by learning how to organize fabric by size and color, while making adorably sophisticated quilts (both pieced and appliquéd) for babies and children. Each of the 20 bright, happy quilts is shown in warm and cool colorways to spark the imagination and use up your...
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The Tool Book: A Tool Lover's Guide to Over 200 Hand Tools

Phil Davy · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

This user's guide to over 200 hand tools highlights how to use tools effectively, understand them better, and how to properly care for them.Salute generations of craftsmanship, ingenuity, and know-how with The Tool Book . Explore tools from every angle, with detailed patent drawings,...
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Styling with Salvage: Designing and Decorating with Reclaimed Materials

Joanne Palmisano · Countryman Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Discover the secrets of styling your home with reclaimed materials Joanne Palmisano is passionate about the joy and importance of reuse in home decor. Whether it's reclaimed, repurposed, recycled, salvaged, or antique, Joanne will show you how to turn an old piece into a stunning decorative...
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Planting for Honeybees: The Grower's Guide to Creating a Buzz

Sarah Wyndham-Lewis · Quadrille Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Of the 25,000 known species of bee worldwide, only seven species are honeybees. Bees and plants have a sophisticated and delicate symbiosis. In recent years, the shrinking of green spaces has endangered the honeybee. Now Planting for Honeybees shows you how you can help these delightful...
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