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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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Prefabulous Small Houses

Sheri Koones · The Taunton Press
Pages: 233
Format: Print book

Prefab home construction has come into its own. Prefabricated homes used to be considered inferior to houses built on site, but not anymore. In Prefabulous Small Houses, best-selling author Sheri Koones presents 32 stunning prefabricated homes from around North America. 250 beautiful photographs...
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Joinery

Taunton Press · The Taunton Press
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

MASTER THE ESSENTIAL WOOD JOINTS All woodworkers worth their sawdust know that joinery -- good, bad, or indifferent -- tells the unvarnished truth; how well a piece is made and how skilled the maker is. Over the decades, no one has proven better at teaching readers how to make beautiful,...
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The Organic Composting Handbook: Techniques for a Healthy, Abundant Garden

Dede Cummings · W W Norton
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback

Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and garden. With full-color photographs and easy-to-follow...
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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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At Home: Sarah Style

Sarah Richardson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Following the bestselling success of Sarah Style, HGTV star and design queen Sarah Richardson invites readers into the homes she's most proud of designing - her own!Renowned designer Sarah Richardson guides readers through a variety of houses - from urban spaces, to secluded farmland...
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The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors: From the 17th Century to the Present

Judith Gura · Bloomsbury
Pages: 479
Format: Print book

This compact, heavily-illustrated guide makes it a snap to identify period styles from the 17th century to the present day. The Guide to Period Styles for Interiors, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference that combines depth of content with ease of use. Including examples and analysis...
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Organized Enough: The Anti-Perfectionist's Guide to Getting--and Staying--Organized

Amanda Sullivan · Da Capo
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

This is not a book that tells you to throw everything out and live austerely. You don't need a sock drawer that brings you joy or a kitchen from a design magazine; what you do need is to be organized enough to feel in control and serene. Organized Enough offers a ground-breaking, science-driven...
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Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers

Annette Goliti Gutierrez · Timber Press
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

Hand-made style for outdoor living Outdoor style often comes at a high price, but it doesn't have to. This lushly designed guide empowers you to create your own show-stopping containers made from everyday materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, terracotta, rope, driftwood, and fabric....
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Kitchen Ideas You Can Use: Inspiring Designs & Clever Solutions for Remodeling Your Kitchen

Chris Peterson · Cool Springs Press, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

The kitchen: command center of the home, headquarters for all things edible, family-member traffic funnel. Whether you're a bachelor or bachelorette in a small starter home or part of a larger family, if this isn't the most-used room in your house, you must not be home very often....
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Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates

John Whitman · University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 536
Format: Print book

Fresh is simply best. To get the tastiest, most nutritious produce, you have to grow your own, and in a cold climate this presents unique challenges. Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and herbs, right in your own backyard....
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What's Wrong With My Fruit Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for Berries, Trees, Nuts, Vines, and Tropicals

David Deardorff · Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Its the question most commonly heard in every garden whats wrong with my? And with the bestselling Whats Wrong With My Plant? and Whats Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?, weve answered it for flower borders, perennial gardens, and vegetable beds. Whats next? One of the most challenging parts...
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Mountain Modern: Contemporary Homes in High Places

Dominic Bradbury · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A striking survey of contemporary houses designed for high-altitudes that fuse style with comfort in extreme weather conditions High up in mountains around the world, houses that have long been constructed following local building traditions are being transformed. Intrepid young architects...
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

Fumio Sasaki · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided...
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