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Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

Jeff Lowenfels · Timber Press
Format: Book

Just as he demystified the soil food web in his ground-breaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener's perspective. Where Teaming with Microbes used adeptly used microbiology; Teaming with Nutrients...
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Seed Saving

CALEB WARNOCK · HOBBLE CREEK PR
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

The goal of all seed saving is to prevent seeds from becoming wild. Stop wasting money on storebought seeds and create a garden you can truly call your own. With easytofollow instructions for lettuce, beans, corn, onions, and much more, you'll soon be creating your very own heirloom...
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The Whimsical Home: Interior Design with Thrift Store Finds, Flea Market Gems, and Recycled Goods

Susanna Zacke · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Vintage clothing, vintage décor - it simply never gets old and continues to be one of the hottest style trends! Now, you too can create a beautiful vintage home environment that is sure to be the envy all your peers. In The Whimsical Home, master crafters Sania and Susanna show us five...
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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...
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Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition

Editors of Creative Homeowner · Creative Homeowner
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Edition demystifies residential electrical systems with easy-to-understand language, step-by-step photography, and detailed illustrations. Homeowners will learn how their home's electrical system works and how to complete installations and repairs. This project-based...
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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....
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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

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...
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Fine Gardening Grow: Healthier & Easier Gardens

Contributors & Readers of Fine Gardening Editors · Taunton Press
Format: Print book

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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Christmas at Designers' Homes Across America

Katharine Mcmillan · Schiffer Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Almost 400 color images treat readers to dazzling holiday visions that leading designers have realized in their own homes -- scenes usually reserved for family and friends. Be inspired by their decorating strategies and hands-on ingenuity while gleaning insider tips for preserving trees...
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Foraged Flora: A Year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants and Flowers

Louesa Roebuck · Ten Speed
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A gorgeously photographed new take on flower arranging using local and foraged plants and flowers to create beautiful arrangements, with ideas and inspiration for the whole year.Roadside fennel, flowering fruit trees, garden roses, tiny violets; ingredients both common and unusual, humble...
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Succulents: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Designing, and Growing 200 Easy Care Plants

Robin Stockwell · Oxmoor House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Inspiring, practical and richly photographed, this comprehensive guide offers creative ideas and DIY projects using beautiful low-maintenance, water-wise plants Succulents are the ultimate easy-care plant: versatile, effortless to grow both indoors and outdoors, and drought tolerant. From...
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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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The Mini Farming Bible: The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

Brett L. Markham · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book

When Brett Markham published a small black and white handbook about how to run a successful mini farmhe never dreamed how popular the book would soon become. In 2010 Skyhorse Publishing Inc. published Bretts book in full color with over a hundred of the authors own photographsand Mini...
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Modern Country: Inspiring interiors for contemporary country living

Caroline Clifton-Mogg · Jacqui Small LLP; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The countryside remains a vital part of French life, but that does not mean that French country houses are set in decorative aspic. When designing modern houses, it is natural to employ contemporary design solutions, but these same types of solution and innovations work equally as well...
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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...
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