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Patina Farm
Patina Farm

Brooke Giannetti · Gibbs Smith, 2016.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A new farm home blending modern lines and materials with French antiques. When Brooke and Steve Giannetti decided to leave their suburban Santa Monica home to build a new life on a farm, they looked into themselves, and traveled to Belgium and France, for inspiration. Brooke's inviting...
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Home Gardener's Propagation: Raising new plants for the home and garden
Home Gardener's Propagation: Raising new plants for the home and garden

David Squire · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Home Gardener's Propagation is the essential guide to raising new plants for the home and garden. Buying individual plants can be expensive but raising your own saves money and gives lots of gardening satisfaction. Every aspect of the art of propagation is covered, from the philosophy...
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What's wrong with my houseplant? : save your indoor plants with 100% organic solutions
What's wrong with my houseplant? : save your indoor plants with 100% organic solutions

David C Deardorff · Timber Press (OR)
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

Houseplants add style, clean the air, and bring nature indoors. But they are often plagued with problems - aphids, mealybugs, mites, and thrips to name just a few. What's Wrong With My Houseplant? shows you how to keep indoor plants healthy by first teaching you how to identify the problem....
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Big Book of Gizmos & Gadgets: Expert Advice and XX All-Time Favorite Projects and Patterns
Big Book of Gizmos & Gadgets: Expert Advice and XX All-Time Favorite Projects and Patterns

Editors and Contributors of Gizmos and Gadgets · Fox Chapel Publishing
Pages: 96
Format: Print book

Inside this book you ll find ingenious plans for making wildly inspired mechanical marvels from wood. These working wooden wonders might just be the most enjoyable projects you ever build in your shop Well-illustrated step-by-step projects are arranged by skill level from beginner to advanced,...
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The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors
The Memory Palace: A Book of Lost Interiors

Edward Hollis · Counterpoint,
Pages: 351
Format: Print book

The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they...
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How to Build, Maintain, and Use a Compost System: Secrets and Techniques You Need to Know to Grow the Best Vegetables
How to Build, Maintain, and Use a Compost System: Secrets and Techniques You Need to Know to Grow the Best Vegetables

Kelly M Smith · Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Some of the best fertilizer on the planet can be made with your very own garbage. Starting with something as simple as coffee grounds a top composting product and including all of your old banana peels, bread crusts, and leftover meals, you can start creating a garden with your food waste...
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Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook
Start a Community Food Garden: The Essential Handbook

LaManda Joy · Timber Press
Format: Book

LaManda Joy, the founder of Chicago's Peterson Garden Project and a board member of the American Community Gardening Association, has worked in the community gardening trenches for years and brings her knowledge to the wider world in Start a Community Food Garden. This hardworking guide...
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Style Me Vintage: Home
Style Me Vintage: Home

Keeley Harris · Sterling Publishing
Pages: 175
Format: Print book

The Style Me Vintage treatment is now given to homes - real stylish homes feature owners' stories and style notes Celebrating the perennial interest in incorporating vintage flea-market finds into interior schemes, this book is a feast of retro inspiration. With practical information...
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All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America
All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

Marta McDowell · Timber Press
Pages: 328
Format: Print book

"This informative gem of a book is for readers fascinated by either gardening or presidential history." - Library Journal The eighteen acres that surround the White House have been an unwitting witness to history--a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists....
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Gardening with Chickens: Plans and Plants for You and Your Hens
Gardening with Chickens: Plans and Plants for You and Your Hens

Lisa Steele · Voyageur Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Welcome to a world where chickens and gardens coexist!Join Lisa Steele, chicken-keeper extraordinaire and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily, on a unique journey through the garden. Start by planning your garden and learning strategies and tips for keeping your plants safe while they grow. Plant...
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Grow Your Own Wedding Flowers: How to grow and arrange your own flowers for all special occasions
Grow Your Own Wedding Flowers: How to grow and arrange your own flowers for all special occasions

Georgie Newbery · Uit Cambridge Ltd, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Both inspiration and practical information for any bride wanting to plan and grow their perfect wedding flowers For anyone who wants to add a personal element to their wedding, care for the environment, and save money while they do it, Grow Your Own Wedding Flowers is a must-have book....
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Home Gardener's Container Gardens: Planting in Containers and Designing, Improving and Maintaining Container Gardens
Home Gardener's Container Gardens: Planting in Containers and Designing, Improving and Maintaining Container Gardens

David Squire · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

Home Gardener s Container Gardens is the essential guide to gardening with attractive urns, troughs, tubs, hanging baskets, window boxes, and wall pots. No matter how big or small a garden is, there is always room for a container. They can be used on terraces and patios to soften their...
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Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden
Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden

David A Bainbridge · Storey Publishing
Pages: 127
Format: Print book

Are you facing drought or water shortages? Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently - using up to 90 percent less water for the same results. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, David Bainbridge shows...
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The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm
The Rooftop Growing Guide: How to Transform Your Roof into a Vegetable Garden or Farm

Annie Novak · Ten Speed Press, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Tapping into the expanding market for rooftop farming and green roofs, this is the first stylish, easy-to-use book for urban gardeners interested in utilizing their roof space for growing food. If you'd like to grow your own food but don't think you have the space, look up! In urban and suburban...
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The Mix & Match Guide to Companion Planting: An Easy, Organic Way to Deter Pests, Prevent Disease, Improve Flavor, and Increase Yields in Your Vegetable Garden
The Mix & Match Guide to Companion Planting: An Easy, Organic Way to Deter Pests, Prevent Disease, Improve Flavor, and Increase Yields in Your Vegetable Garden

Josie Jeffery · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 131
Format: Hardcover

With its unique split-page mix-and match system, The Mix & Match Guide to Companion Planting is a colorful visual gardening guide to which vegetables, fruits, and herbs grow best with one another, and which do not.The age-old practice of companion planting is an effective way to create...
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