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The Gardener's Guide to Common-Sense Pest Control: Completely Revised and Updated

William Olkowski · Taunton Press
Pages: 391
Format: Paperback

This important resource gives homeowners hundreds of environmentally effective ways to control garden pests. Here are all the no- to low-toxicity remedies for ridding lawns, gardens, and trees of destructive invaders. From microscopic organisms that case plant-killing blights to burrowing...
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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

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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What's Wrong With My Fruit Garden?: 100% Organic Solutions for Berries, Trees, Nuts, Vines, and Tropicals

David Deardorff · Timber Press

It’s the question most commonly heard in every garden: what’s wrong with my…? And with the bestselling What’s Wrong With My Plant? and What’s Wrong With My Vegetable Garden?, we’ve answered it for flower borders, perennial gardens, and vegetable...
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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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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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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 Greenhouse Gardener's Manual

Roger Marshall · Timber Press

The ultimate guide to growing inside! A greenhouse can bring you spectacular rewards - if you know how to maximize its potential. In this easy-to-use guide, Roger Marshall covers all the basics - how to choose, heat, irrigate, and maintain your greenhouse - as well how to grow scores of popular...
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The $50 Home Makeover: 75 Easy Projects to Transform Your Current Space into Your Dream Place--for $50 or Less!

Shaunna West · Adams Media
Format: Hardcover

Stunning and easy projects for less than $50 each!With The $50 Home Makeover, you can finally turn your living space into your home! This inspiring book offers 75 fun and creative ideas that will help give your place the stylish, modern look that you've always wanted--without having...
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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...
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All About Roses

Diana Sargeant · New Holland Australia

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...
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