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Midwest Gardener's Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select - Plan - Plant - Maintain - Problem-solve - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, ... North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin
Midwest Gardener's Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select - Plan - Plant - Maintain - Problem-solve - Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, ... North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin

Melinda Myers · Cool Springs Press; First edition
Format: Book

With over 30 years of gardening experience, renowned regional horticulturalist Melinda Myers brings you the perfect when-to, how-to, and which-plant guide for gardening in the Midwestern United States. Meant for the more experienced intermediate to advanced gardener, Midwest Gardener’s...
 
 
Amish Garden: A Year In The Life Of An Amish Garden
Amish Garden: A Year In The Life Of An Amish Garden

Laura Anne Lapp · Good Books
Format: Hardcover

An Amish Garden A Year in the Life of an Amish Garden takes you to six working Amish gardens, from January through December. Matchless photos show the garden asleep, the Amish women putting together their orders for seeds, the preparation of the soil, parents and children planting, the emerging...
 
 
All About Roses
All About Roses

Diana Sargeant · New Holland Australia
Format: Print book

Roses have been grown in gardens around the world for thousands of years and are still the most popular flower in the world. When you follow Diana Sargeant’s advice in All About Roses, you will grow the most gorgeous roses, easily and naturally. Your rose garden...
 
 
Late Bloomer: How to Garden with Comfort, Ease and Simplicity in the Second Half of Life
Late Bloomer: How to Garden with Comfort, Ease and Simplicity in the Second Half of Life

Jan Coppola Bills · St. Lynn's Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

There are times in a gardener's life when what we want to do and what we can do are at odds. Our knees and backs may be complaining, our energy isn't what it was - yet our desire to get our hands in the dirt is as strong as ever. Or maybe we've downsized to a much smaller outdoor...
 
 
Compact Living: How to Design Small Interior Space
Compact Living: How to Design Small Interior Space

Michael Guerra · Permanent Publications
Format: Print book

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....
 
 
The Wildlife-Friendly Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Food in Harmony with Nature
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...
 
 
How to Propagate 375 Plants: An illustrated directory of flowers, trees, shrubs, climbers, water plants, vegetables and herbs, with 650 photographs
How to Propagate 375 Plants: An illustrated directory of flowers, trees, shrubs, climbers, water plants, vegetables and herbs, with 650 photographs

Richard Rosenfeld · Southwater
Format: Paperback

Create plants for free with this A-Z guide to 375 of the best plants for propagating, including all the techniques such as sowing seed, taking cuttings, dividing plants, gorwing offsets, layering and grafting.,
 
 
Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wander & Wonder
Junk Gypsy: Designing a Life at the Crossroads of Wander & Wonder

Amie Sikes · Touchstone
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

In their first book, the Junk Gypsies - sisters and stars of the popular Texas-born brand and HGTV show - combine big dreams, stories of roadside treasures found, and down-home design projects inspired by epic makeovers for friends like Miranda Lambert, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Sadie Robertson.Amie...
 
 
Five-Plant Gardens: 52 Ways to Grow a Perennial Garden with Just Five Plants
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,...
 
 
Straw Bale Gardens: The Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding
Straw Bale Gardens: The Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding

Joel Karsten · Cool Springs Press; First edition
Format: Paperback

You'll find a bumper crop of vegetable gardening books on the shelves today, but it is a very rare title that actually contains new information. Straw Bale Gardens teaches gardening in a way that isn't only new but is thoroughly innovative and revolutionary to home gardening. It solves...
 
 
Organic Farming: How to Raise, Certify, and Market Organic Crops and Livestock
Organic Farming: How to Raise, Certify, and Market Organic Crops and Livestock

Peter V. Fossel · Voyageur Press; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

Organic Farming is the seed you need to get your organic farm growing. This essential guidebook explains everything you need to know to begin and maintain a healthy, productive, and profitable organic farm, from organic certification to planting crops to marketing your produce. If you're...
 
 
What's Wrong With My Fruit Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for Berries, Trees, Nuts, Vines, and Tropicals
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...
 
 
Kitchen Idea Book
Kitchen Idea Book

Joanne Kellar Bouknight · The Taunton Press
Pages: 217
Format: Paperback

A virtual designer's notebook of ideas, inspiration and information -- without the high designer price tag -- this all new edition of Kitchen Idea Book will be a homeowner's first step in turning their existing kitchen into their dream kitchen, whether it's new construction...
 
 
Gifts from the Garden: 100 Gorgeous Homegrown Presents
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...
 
 
How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables & Houseplants Without Soil: The Secrets of Hydroponic Gardening Revealed
How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables & Houseplants Without Soil: The Secrets of Hydroponic Gardening Revealed

Rick Helweg · Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Format: Paperback

Dirt-free, low-cost, space-saving, low in pesticides, and environmentally friendly, hydroponic gardening the art of growing plants without any soil is a method already used by millions for growing healthy, vibrant plants by everyday gardeners. In Greek, hydro translates to water and ponos...