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The Hop Grower's Handbook: The Essential Guide for Sustainable, Small-Scale Production for Home and Market

Laura Ten Eyck · Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

With information on siting, planting, tending, harvesting, processing, and brewing It's hard to think about beer these days without thinking about hops. The runaway craft beer market's convergence with the ever-expanding local foods movement is helping to spur a local-hops...
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Best Garden Plants for Texas

Leslie Halleck · Lone Pine Pub
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

This practical, inspiring book takes the guesswork out of choosing plants for the Texas climate and landscapes. Gardeners from all over the Lone Star State will find this useful guide a vital part of selecting a wide range of garden plants. The plants are readily available, grow well in Texas,...
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Conran on Color

Terence Conran · Conran Octopus
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Terence Conran shares a lifetime of experience as one of the world's leading designers and retailers to explain how to make the most of this vibrant and dynamic ingredient in your homeSubtle and allusive, bold and invigorating, color is one of the single most powerful elements in design...
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Master Basic DIY

Mike Edwards · John Murray Learning
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Master Basic DIY explains all the basic tasks and gives you all the information you need to undertake essential decorating and maintenance in an informed and sensible manner. It offers insight into complex options and methods, and is full of practical information and indispensable tips...
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The Sinister Beauty of Carnivorous Plants

Matthew M Kaelin · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

The alluring nature of carnivorous plants is on stunning display in this fine art-style collection of botanical photographs. Over 140 color images show in minute detail species, hybrids, and cultivars from around the world, many painstakingly cultivated by the author in his native New York....
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Landscaping with Edible Plants in Texas: Design and Cultivation

Cheryl Beesley · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

In this complete reference to integrating edible plants into a wide range of private and public landscapes, landscape designer Cheryl Beesley thoroughly answers the questions of how to plant, where to plant, and what to plant. She covers garden layout, bed construction, and fencing options...
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Projects to Get You Off the Grid: Rain Barrels, Chicken Coops, and Solar Panels

Instructables.com · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Instructables is back with this compact book focused on a series of projects designed to get you thinking creatively about thinking green. Twenty Instructables illustrate just how simple it can be to make your own backyard chicken coop, or turn a wine barrel into a rainwater collector....
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Urban Farming: Sustainable City Living in Your Backyard, in Your Community, and in the World

Thomas Fox · Hobby Farm Press
Format: Paperback

It doesnt take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you dont have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby...
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Texas Gardening the Natural Way: The Complete Handbook

Howard Garrett · University of Texas Press
Pages: 386
Format: Print book

Compost your old "complete" gardening guide. There's a new way of gardening in Texas that's healthier for people and the environment, more effective at growing vigorous plants and reducing pests, cheaper to maintain, and just more fun. It's Howard Garrett's "The...
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Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

Scott Hoffman Black · Timber Press
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

Library Journal Starred Review Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of colorful garden guests who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where they will thrive....
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Southwest Gardener's Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select, Plan, Plant, Maintain, Problem-Solve - Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Southern Nevada, Utah

Diana Maranhao · Cool Springs Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Intermediate to advanced home gardeners who are interested in learning how to be even more successful in their Southwest garden need this book on their bookshelves!This handbook offers information about how to select plants best-suited for arid Southwest environments (states which include...
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Easy Gardening for Texas

Joseph Gebran Masabni · Texas A & M Agrilife Extension
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

When is "full sun" not full sun? When you're trying to grow vegetables in Texas. Because a full day of sun here can stress all but the toughest plants. For the rest, "full sun" in Texas means 6 to 8 hours mostly in the morning, and shade in the afternoon. Gardening in Texas...
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Planting Design for Dry Gardens: Beautiful, Resilient Groundcovers for Terraces, Paved Areas, Gravel and Other Alternatives to the Lawn

Olivier Filippi · Filbert Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Green lawns are restful to the eye, provide an excellent backdrop to plants and trees and keep the weeds down, but in low-rainfall regions they often end up looking scrappy and brown. This book offers low-level planting designs that are ecofriendly and so beautiful they redefine the conventional...
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Modern Pioneering: More Than 150 Recipes, Projects, and Skills for a Self-Sufficient Life

Georgia Pellegrini · Potter Style
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A cookbook and backyard gardening and homesteading guide for women who want to grow food efficiently, cook seasonal recipes, or even try foraging, camping, and living off the land.Self-sufficiency is the ultimate girl power Georgia Pellegrini, outdoor adventurer and chef, helps you roll...
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Little Veggie Patch Co. DIY Garden Projects: Easy Activities For Edible Gardening and Backyard Fun

Matt Pember · Hardie Grant Books
Pages: 383
Format: Print book

The Little Veggie Patch Company is a Melbourne based business that specializes in everything that encompasses the edible garden. From the design, installation and maintenance of home, school and corporate veggie patches, to everything you will need to care for them, they are dedicated to helping...
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