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How to Mulch: Save Water, Feed the Soil, and Suppress Weeds. A Storey BASICS®Title

Stu Campbell · Storey Books
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback

Mulching makes your garden and yard much easier to care for, helping to retain moisture, keep weeds in check, and protect young plants. This concise guide shows you exactly how to mulch for any situation, covering sheet mulching, feeding mulches, and living mulches for use in the yard,...
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Learn to Weld: Beginning MIG Welding and Metal Fabrication Basics - Includes techniques you can use for home and automotive repair, metal fabrication projects, sculpture, and more

Stephen Blake Christena · Quayside
Pages: 175
Format: Paperback

Master MIG welding and the metal fabrication techniques you need to repair, create, and duplicate projects in your home welding studio. Learn to Weld starts with the basics: setting up your studio, the right safety gear and safety procedures, and the equipment and materials you will need...
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Crochet

DK Publishing · DK
Format: Hardcover

Crochet The Complete Step-by-Step Guide features a mix of classic and modern crochet projects, including things to wear, items for the home, decorative pieces, and cute gifts. Packed with 101 inspirational projects for crocheters of all levels of skill, Crochet The Complete Step-by-Step...
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Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location

DK Publishing · DK
Format: Hardcover

Including more than 2,000 recommendations from gardening experts, Encyclopedia of Garden Plants for Every Location includes planting suggestions for over 30 types of sites, from notoriously dry ground by a hedge or fence to cracks in walls or paving, explains how to assess site and soil,...
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Brick Building 101: 20 LEGO® activities to teach kids about STEAM

WALTER FOSTER CREATIVE TEAM. · Walter Foster Jr
Pages: 80
Format: Flexibound

Now kids can combine a love for LEGO with learning STEAM topics (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) in this awesomely fun activity book! Industrious minds will love learning to build a bunch of different stuff with these 20 step-by-step projects that range from beginner...
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Making Masks

Toby Reynolds · Windmill Books, 2016.
Pages: 24
Format: eBook

Learn to create your very own masks -- and then wear them! Make them out of ordinary household items such as felt, paper, cardboard, and Popsicle sticks. This book uses easy instructions and accessible text to teach readers how to make each mask, including a lion, rabbit, owl, and robot....
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The Needlepoint Book: New, Revised, and Updated Third Edition

Jo Ippolito Christensen · Touchstone; Revised edition
Format: Print book

The Needlepoint Book is the only needlework guide you'll ever need - now including 436 stitches and 1,680 illustrations.Since its original publication in 1976, The Needlepoint Book has become known as the bible for all stitching enthusiasts - the one resource for every needlepoint aficionado....
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Make and Give: Simple and Modern Crafts to Brighten Every Day

Steph Hung · Roost Books
Format: Hardcover

A design-savvy craft book with 35 cute, simple projects that celebrate the people we love in the everyday moments.      This is a book of 35 simple, modern craft projects to make any day special for the people we love. A handmade gift--even the smallest and simplest...
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A Babysitter's Guide to Keeping the Kids Entertained

Abby Colich · Capstone Press
Pages: 32
Format: Print book

You arrive at your babysitting job. Now what? Whether youre babysitting infants, toddlers, or school age children, weve got simple, mess-free activities sure to keep kids entertained. Each activity lists the inexpensive, everyday items needed, and can be finished and cleaned up before the parents...
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Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

Craig LeHoullier · Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover

Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes — from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season....
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The Indestructible Houseplant: 200 Beautiful, Easy-Care Plants that Everyone Can Grow

Tovah Martin · Timber Press (OR)
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Tovah Martin, the undisputed Queen of Green, shows that anyone can grow healthy houseplants. It all boils down to a simple set of skills and - here's the crucial part - picking the right plants. These tough but beautiful plants can thrive in less-than-ideal conditions, and they're...
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The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden

Roy Diblik · Timber Press, 2014.
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

We've all seen gorgeous perennial gardens packed with color, texture, and multi-season interest. Designed by a professional and maintained by a crew, they are aspirational bits of beauty too difficult to attempt at home. Or are they? The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden makes a design-magazine-worthy...
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Making Puppets

Toby Reynolds · Windmill Books
Format: Hardcover

In this book, readers learn how to create their very own puppets out of materials that are easily accessible, such as socks, spoons, and cups. Brilliant color photographs detail each step in the process, as readers learn how to turn basic materials into lion, bear, and fish puppets, and even...
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Knit Your Own Zoo: Easy-to-Follow Patterns for 24 Animals

Sally Muir · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

From the authors of the beloved and best-selling Knit Your Own Dog, Knit Your Own Cat, and Knit Your Own Dog: The Second Litter comes Knit Your Own Zoo! With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for 24 animals, it's an irresistible guide to knitting a single exotic pet or an entire...
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All New Fabric Savvy: How to Choose & Use Fabrics

Sandra Betzina · Taunton Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

The essential guide for every sewer just got better! All New Fabric Savvy is updated to include detailed information on 107 different fabrics; must-know information on determining fabric content, working with knits, working with different types of interfacing, removing stains, and choosing...
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