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Gardening with Chickens: Plans and Plants for You and Your Hens

Lisa Steele · Voyageur Press
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

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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Sarah Style

Sarah Richardson · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the flawless style of Deborah Needlemans Domino comes the interior design book of the decade, from HGTV star, virtual sensation, and Canadian design queen Sarah Richardson. Ever wondered how to transform your laundry room from drab to fab? Your kitchen from prison to paradise? Your bedroom...
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Salvage Secrets Design & Decor: Transform Your Home With Reclaimed Materials

Joanne Palmisano · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A visually sumptuous idea book, showcasing an eclectic array of interior design possibilities using salvaged goods. Following up on her celebrated first Salvage Secrets book, which Fine Homebuilding called "An invaluable first step in the salvage-for-design journey," here salvage...
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Glorious Shade: Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden

Jenny Rose Carey · Timber Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Turn a shady yard into a sumptuous gardenShade is one of the most common garden situations homeowner's have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can triumph over challenging areas and learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. Glorious Shade celebrates the benefits...
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Wiring Complete: 3rd Edition

Michael W Litchfield · Taunton Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The third edition of this best-selling volume is a comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-use reference for homeowners covering all home wiring situations from the most basic to advanced. Wiring Complete is a highly visual book focused on real world situations faced by homeowners and real...
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Bright Bazaar: Embracing Color for Make-You-Smile Style

Will Taylor · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 191
Format: Hardcover

Dive into a refreshing take on color from one of the world's leading interiors bloggers, Will Taylor of Bright.Bazaar, West Elm's "go-to blogger for color inspiration." What began as a popular blog attracting over 400,000 readers a month is now a gorgeous, color-popping...
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Homegrown Berries: Successfully Grow Your Own Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Blackberries, and More

Timber Press · Timber Press
Format: Book

Enjoy delicious, nutritious berries from your own backyard! Why buy expensive berries from the supermarket when you can grow a bumper crop right outside your door? Homegrown Berries covers the entire process, from planting to picking that first nutritious, luscious fruit. Youll learn the best...
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The Nonstop Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs

Jennifer Benner · Timber Press
Format: Paperback

With hectic lifestyles and busy schedules, people are finding it more and more appealing to enjoy their leisure time at home rather than packing their bags in search of peaceful retreats. But how can they confidently create a garden retreat? By following Cohen and Benners trusted advice...
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Home gardener's water gardens : designing, building, planting, improving and maintaining water gardens

Alan Bridgewater · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 80
Format: Print book

"Home Gardener s Water Gardens "is the essential guide to enhancing an outdoor space with bubbling, gurgling, flowing water. For centuries, water has been a source of inspiration and delight to people of all cultures, making it a common feature of garden design worldwide. The tranquility...
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The American Idea of Home: Conversations about Architecture and Design

Bernard Friedman · University of Texas Press
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover

"Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture...
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The Complete Guide to Growing Tomatoes: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply - Including Heirloom Tomatoes

Cherie H Everhart · Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In this newly updated guide, you will learn the fundamental aspects of all tomato plants that have helped growers around the world create the largest tomatoes. Topics include: The basics of composting and fertilization and what each tomato plant benefits best from How to select your...
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The Organic Gardener's Handbook: A Users Manual for the Organic Vegetable Garden, 2nd Edition

Frank Tozer · Green Man Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The Organic Gardeners Handbook covers every aspect of creating, managing and working in the organic vegetable garden. There are chapters on climate, site selection, soil science, fertility, bed preparation, composting, cover crops, planning, raising seedlings, direct sowing, watering, harvesting,...
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Lives of the Great Gardeners

Stephen Anderton · W W Norton
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Entertaining and accessible -- the lives of the men and women, many of them multitalented artists, who created some of the world's most extraordinary gardens, and whose legacy continues to inspireThroughout history, great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic...
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New Kitchen Idea Book

Heather J Paper · The Taunton Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The kitchen. It's the undeniable heart of the home, the hub from which families fan out and come together again. Much more than a place to make and take meals, it's also "homework central", a home office, and an entertaining area all rolled into one. So when it's time to update...
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