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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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Compact Living: How to Design Small Interior Space

Michael Guerra · Permanent Publications

Compact Living opens our eyes to the possibilities of living a compact and low-impact urban life. It is about learning how to live happily with less clutter and embrace the joys in life. Most of our society is struggling to pay the bills while chasing the ideal of a "bigger" lifestyle....
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The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature

Tammi Hartung · Storey
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

This one-of-a-kind book shows you how to create a peaceful co-existence between your vegetable garden and the wildlife who consider it part of their habitat. By understanding and working with the surrounding environment - instead of continually fighting it - you'll reap a larger harvest...
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Southern Mountain Living

Lynn Monday · Gibbs Smith

An array of ideas for mixing rustic, antique and contemporary elements This book brings to light the style, grace and hospitality of living in the southern mountains. Southern Mountain Living offers a room-by-room look into the interior designs of Lynn Monday, making the most of outdoor...
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The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

Ben Falk · Chelsea Green Publishing

The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced...
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Hide and Seek: The Architecture of Cabins and Hideouts

Sofia Borges · Gestalten
Format: Hardcover

Our longing for simplicity, clarity, and relaxation often leads us into nature. Hide and Seek showcases the most beautiful places for satisfying this longing. More and more people are yearning to live in harmony with nature. Yet they don't want to give up their homes in the city or make...
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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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Five-Plant Gardens: 52 Ways to Grow a Perennial Garden with Just Five Plants

Nancy J. Ondra · Workman Pub Co
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback

Selecting perennial plants can be overwhelming - there are hundreds of choices, and it's difficult to know when your plants will bloom, whether they'll thrive in sunny or shady spots, and which ones will look well together. In Five-Plant Gardens, Nancy Ondra eliminates the guesswork and the stress,...
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Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents

Debora Robertson · Kyle Books
Format: Hardcover

Brimming with ideas from the pretty to the practical, Gifts from the Garden contains more than 100 projects that use the gardener’s bounty throughout the seasons. Divided into Flowers & Herbs, and Fruit, Vegetables & Nuts, Debora includes gifts that are edible, for your home...
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Fine Gardening Grow: Healthier & Easier Gardens

Contributors & Readers of Fine Gardening Editors · Taunton Press

The gardening manual youve been waiting for. Packed with essential tips, planting solutions, practical instruction, and pruning advice from Fine Gardening magazine, Fine Gardening Grow Healthier Easier Gardens is the perfect guide for cultivating know-how. Its a must for your gardening...
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