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Growing Vegetables: An Easy Guide for All Seasons

Sarah O'Neil · New Holland Publishers (UK)
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A beginner's guide to vegetable gardening that includes weekly advice through the growing seasons, for anyone who wants to produce their own food at home. Planning begins in late winter, while the earth is cold and unproductive. Indoors, gardeners get organized, ready for the warmer weather....
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The Design Cookbook: Recipes for a Stylish Home

Kelly Edwards · Medallion Press
Format: Paperback

Through stunning photographs and step-by-step instructions designer and lifestyle expert Kelly Edwards brings a myriad of looks tastes and approaches to chic home design in this guidebook From the kitchen and the bedroom to the home office and the out-of-doors Kelly illustrates how to achieve...
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Country Living American Style: Decorate * Create * Celebrate

Country Living · Hearst
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Country Living celebrates all-American design from sea to shining sea: quaint New England towns, dusty Texas ranches, woodsy log cabins, and Main Street, Anywhere, USA. Here are our country's most beloved styles on vivid display - its architecture, ornaments, textiles, and other more...
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Home

Ellen DeGeneres · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Ellen DeGeneres has bought and renovated nearly a dozen homes over the last twenty-five years, and describes her real-estate and decorating adventures as "an education." She has long cared deeply about design: "I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was thirteen."
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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes

Deborah Madison · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 405
Format: Book

In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these connections...
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Plumbing

Steve Cory · The Taunton Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

Stanley's Plumbing: A Homeowner's Guide is a comprehensive, visual handbook packed with step-by-step photographs and authoritative, reliable information. Eventually, every homeowner needs to repair, replace, or upgrade a plumbing fixture. Save heaps of money by learning how to do it yourself....
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Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers

Teri Dunn Chace · Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Weve all seen red roses, blue irises, and yellow daffodils. But when we really look closely at a flower, whole new worlds of beauty and intricacy emerge. Seeing Flowers is a visual feast that gloriously highlights 343 popular garden flowers. Using a unique photo process that includes stitching...
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Mike Holmes Kitchens & Bathrooms

Mike Holmes · Time Home Entertainment
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

Anyone who has planned a renovation project knows that there are many, often difficult, decisions to make along the way. As Canada's most trusted contractor, Mike has seen the good, the bad and the ugly. He provides expert advice in all aspects of planning and completing the most common...
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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

Alexandra Risen · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In this moving memoir, a woman digs into a garden and into the past and finds secrets, beauty, and acceptance. Alex's father dies just as she and her husband buy a nondescript house set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city. Choked with weeds...
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Garden Rescue

Jo Whittingham · DK
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Whether the wisteria is wilting or the cherry tree isn't producing any fruit, Garden Rescue will help identify and treat the minor issues and major problems that can harm plants. With information on both edible and ornamental gardens, Garden Rescue provides flow charts to help diagnose...
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All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More In Less Space

Mel Bartholomew · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Rapidly increasing in popularity, square foot gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden. That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million books describing how to become a successful DIY square foot gardener. Now,...
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Step-by-Step Home Design and Decorating

DK Publishing · DK
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate practical reference tool for home design and decoration, Step by Step Home Design & Decorating is the only book that does everything step-by-step. When it comes to restyling, redecorating, and sprucing up your home, the big question is where to start. From the planning...
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Big Ideas for Small Spaces: Creative Ideas and 30 Projects for Balconies, Roof Gardens, Windowsills and Terraces

Kay Maguire · Firefly Books
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

A practical guide to creating a green oasis in the city. Big Ideas for Small Spaces is for anyone with a small outdoor space that they wish to "green up". While the projects and advice are valuable to any gardener, they are especially useful to urbanites surrounded by concrete...
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The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook

Barbara Damrosch · Workman
Pages: 485
Format: Paperback

Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners -- and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer, and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower. Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary...
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