Think you don't have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has the solution. Perfect for all gardening skill levels whether you're starting your first garden, looking to expand your crop, or simply searching for ways to make it easier to care for your extensive plant collection, you'll find everything you need to know to make your garden grow. Gardening Hacks includes helpful tips like: -Saving your eggshells, which can serve as everything from an organic seed starter to a natural snail and slug repellent. -Adding a pinch of cinnamon to help prevent fungal diseases that might prevent your plants from maturing. -Using the newspaper to help deter weeds from sprouting. -Creating your own DIY seed packet catalog to help keep your seeds organized as your garden grows.
Adams Media
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9781507215814
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Paperback
The Gardener's Guide to Succulents
By Matsuyama, Misa
The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti. Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering - and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size - this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions.This succulent guide includes information about:What each variety needs and where it thrivesPlant characteristics, with ratings on ease of growth and maintenance requirementsIdeas for group plantings and illustrated tips on indoor plantingStriking identification photos, rich in color and contrastThis succulent encyclopedia is a useful resource for everyone - from cacti beginners looking to decorate their living space to serious gardeners hoping to expand their succulent plantings.
Tuttle Publishing
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9780804851060
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Hardcover
The Joy of Bird Feeding
By Carpenter, Jim
The Joy of Bird Feeding is the ultimate reference for backyard bird watchers and bird feeders. It offers practical tips and solutions to attracting and identifying birds, offering the best foods for the birds you want to see, and how to deter those unwanted guests to feeding stations. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of the hobby and guides readers to the essential steps of bird feeding mastery: Founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, Jim Carpenter brings a lifelong passion for birds and bird feeding along with real solutions to make anyone's backyard a paradise for the birds and for bird watchers.
Scott & Nix, Inc.
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9781935622611
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Paperback
Clean and Lean
By Smith, Ian K.
Building on the principles in Ian K. Smith's bestselling The Clean 20, Clean and Lean introduces four new important components to the eating plan:--A full day-by-day 30-day weight loss diet--Intermittent fasting (skip breakfast, lose weight) --A pure, simple, effective exercise regimen--10 new clean foods to add to the original 20!Exercise has often been difficult to incorporate into traditional diet books. But Clean and Lean makes exercise a real pillar of the program. Exercise will be pure and classic, use equipment readers already have at home, and take 20 minutes a day in two 10 minute lean breaks.Readers will:--Eat all the original Clean 20 foods plus 10 new foods in substantial quantities and nothing else--Skip breakfast (this is big news) --Restore their natural palates after 30 days of eating clean--Get a Click Back to Clean 3 day reset plan to return to if they stray back to processed food after their diet--Learn to pause and de-stress in their daily exercise breaks--Cook the 40 new recipes in Clean and Lean: for lunches and dinners, but never for breakfast!
St. Martin's Press
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9781250114945
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Hardcover
Groundbreaking Food Gardens
By Jabbour, Niki
Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that's devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes. This fully illustrated collection glitters with off-beat personality and quirkiness.
Storey Publishing
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9781612120614
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Paperback
Project Succulent
By Chapman, Baylor
Succulents appear in myriad shapes, colors, and textures and are some of the easiest plants to care for (less water is more!) . In this step-by-step guide, adapted from The Plant Recipe Book, author Baylor Chapman shows us how to choose among these beauties to create arrangements and tiny terrariums like a Desert View, which includes burro's tails and zebra plants, or the Zen Garden, with rabbit ear cacti, pincushion cacti, and a little Morgan's Beauty.
Artisan
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9781648290329
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Hardcover
Flowerpaedia
By Darcey, Cheralyn
Flowerpaedia is a handy and engaging A-Z reference guide of over 1000 flowers, researched and compiled by botanical explorer Cheralyn Darcey. Readers will delight in understanding what each flower means--emotionally, spiritually, and symbolically--and the dictionary format allows people to search by the feeling or emotion they wish to convey or change. Expertly written with easy-to-understand insights, Flowerpaedia shares how we can work with a myriad of flowers to achieve balance, calm, or healing in our lives, homes, and gardens. Included is an index of each flower's precise botanical name for easy and exact identification.Written for the enthusiastic gardener and anyone charmed by the beauty and energy of flowers, this guide to understanding and selecting the right flower for every occasion and meaning will be felt and enjoyed by all.
Rockpool Publishing
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9781925429466
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Paperback
The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook
By Rodgers, Diana
Seasonal, gluten-free, farm-to-table eating never tasted so good!On her farm in Massachusetts, nutritionist Diana Rodgers has found a way back to a healthy, active lifestyle with a focus on nutritious and delicious eating, raising animals, growing vegetables, and balancing work and play. Anyone can have the same healthy, balanced lifestyle and a closer connection to their food - whether you live in a house in the suburbs, a farmhouse in the countryside, or an apartment in the city. The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook shows you how. With over 100 seasonal Paleo recipes, guides to growing your own food and raising animals, and inspiring how-tos for crafts and entertaining, The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook is a guide not just for better eating, but for better living - and a better world.
Victory Belt Publishing; 1St Edition edition
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9781628600629
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Hardcover
The Hummingbird Handbook
By Shewey, John
Hummingbirds inspire an unmistakable sense of devotion and awe among bird lovers. Gardeners, too, love the company of hummingbirds, not only for their beauty, but also for their role as pollinators.The Hummingbird Handbook satisfies both bird lovers and gardeners alike with a colorful, generously illustrated package brimming with practical advice, important ecological information, and hundreds of stunning photos. John Shewey empowers you to attract hummingbirds to your own backyard by identifying the best bird feeders and the most effective techniques for enticing hungry hummers. Additional information includes details on planting and landscaping for hummingbirds and an identification guide to species found in North America.The Hummingbird Handbook is the complete guide to attracting, understanding, and protecting hummingbirds.
Publisher: n/a
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9781643260181
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Paperback
Organic Gardening Techniques
By Hamilton, Nick
The popularity of organic gardening continues to rise as people seek to control the quality and freshness of the food they eat. And organic gardening isn?t just about creating delicious healthy food for the table: it?s also about supporting delicate ecosystems and working without the use of chemicals. This comprehensive handbook of organic gardening techniques is full of practical information on sowing and growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other plants. From selecting the right tools to propagation, crop rotation, growing on supports, training greenhouse crops, watering, weed control?all of the essentials are here. Protecting crops from pests and diseases is dealt with comprehensively, along with extensive advice on storing and preserving your produce after the harvest.
Gardening Hacks
By Vanzile, Jon
Think you don't have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has the solution. Perfect for all gardening skill levels whether you're starting your first garden, looking to expand your crop, or simply searching for ways to make it easier to care for your extensive plant collection, you'll find everything you need to know to make your garden grow. Gardening Hacks includes helpful tips like: -Saving your eggshells, which can serve as everything from an organic seed starter to a natural snail and slug repellent. -Adding a pinch of cinnamon to help prevent fungal diseases that might prevent your plants from maturing. -Using the newspaper to help deter weeds from sprouting. -Creating your own DIY seed packet catalog to help keep your seeds organized as your garden grows.
The Gardener's Guide to Succulents
By Matsuyama, Misa
The Gardener's Guide to Succulents is a stunning visual reference identifying over 125 plants from 40 different genera of succulents and cacti. Fleshy, spiny, hairy, flowering - and coming in every imaginable shape, color and size - this plant family has captured the affection of plant enthusiasts all over the world. This book provides a beautiful overview of the diversity that succulents have to offer, presenting a wide variety of popular plants to help you create striking, aesthetically pleasing compositions.This succulent guide includes information about:What each variety needs and where it thrivesPlant characteristics, with ratings on ease of growth and maintenance requirementsIdeas for group plantings and illustrated tips on indoor plantingStriking identification photos, rich in color and contrastThis succulent encyclopedia is a useful resource for everyone - from cacti beginners looking to decorate their living space to serious gardeners hoping to expand their succulent plantings.
The Joy of Bird Feeding
By Carpenter, Jim
The Joy of Bird Feeding is the ultimate reference for backyard bird watchers and bird feeders. It offers practical tips and solutions to attracting and identifying birds, offering the best foods for the birds you want to see, and how to deter those unwanted guests to feeding stations. Each chapter focuses on an important aspect of the hobby and guides readers to the essential steps of bird feeding mastery: Founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, Jim Carpenter brings a lifelong passion for birds and bird feeding along with real solutions to make anyone's backyard a paradise for the birds and for bird watchers.
Clean and Lean
By Smith, Ian K.
Building on the principles in Ian K. Smith's bestselling The Clean 20, Clean and Lean introduces four new important components to the eating plan:--A full day-by-day 30-day weight loss diet--Intermittent fasting (skip breakfast, lose weight) --A pure, simple, effective exercise regimen--10 new clean foods to add to the original 20!Exercise has often been difficult to incorporate into traditional diet books. But Clean and Lean makes exercise a real pillar of the program. Exercise will be pure and classic, use equipment readers already have at home, and take 20 minutes a day in two 10 minute lean breaks.Readers will:--Eat all the original Clean 20 foods plus 10 new foods in substantial quantities and nothing else--Skip breakfast (this is big news) --Restore their natural palates after 30 days of eating clean--Get a Click Back to Clean 3 day reset plan to return to if they stray back to processed food after their diet--Learn to pause and de-stress in their daily exercise breaks--Cook the 40 new recipes in Clean and Lean: for lunches and dinners, but never for breakfast!
Groundbreaking Food Gardens
By Jabbour, Niki
Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a cocktail garden featuring all the ingredients for your favorite drinks, a spicy retreat comprising 24 varieties of chile peppers, and a garden that's devoted to supplying year-round salad greens. Created by celebrated gardeners, each unique design is accompanied by both plant lists and charming anecdotes. This fully illustrated collection glitters with off-beat personality and quirkiness.
Project Succulent
By Chapman, Baylor
Succulents appear in myriad shapes, colors, and textures and are some of the easiest plants to care for (less water is more!) . In this step-by-step guide, adapted from The Plant Recipe Book, author Baylor Chapman shows us how to choose among these beauties to create arrangements and tiny terrariums like a Desert View, which includes burro's tails and zebra plants, or the Zen Garden, with rabbit ear cacti, pincushion cacti, and a little Morgan's Beauty.
Flowerpaedia
By Darcey, Cheralyn
Flowerpaedia is a handy and engaging A-Z reference guide of over 1000 flowers, researched and compiled by botanical explorer Cheralyn Darcey. Readers will delight in understanding what each flower means--emotionally, spiritually, and symbolically--and the dictionary format allows people to search by the feeling or emotion they wish to convey or change. Expertly written with easy-to-understand insights, Flowerpaedia shares how we can work with a myriad of flowers to achieve balance, calm, or healing in our lives, homes, and gardens. Included is an index of each flower's precise botanical name for easy and exact identification.Written for the enthusiastic gardener and anyone charmed by the beauty and energy of flowers, this guide to understanding and selecting the right flower for every occasion and meaning will be felt and enjoyed by all.
The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook
By Rodgers, Diana
Seasonal, gluten-free, farm-to-table eating never tasted so good!On her farm in Massachusetts, nutritionist Diana Rodgers has found a way back to a healthy, active lifestyle with a focus on nutritious and delicious eating, raising animals, growing vegetables, and balancing work and play. Anyone can have the same healthy, balanced lifestyle and a closer connection to their food - whether you live in a house in the suburbs, a farmhouse in the countryside, or an apartment in the city. The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook shows you how. With over 100 seasonal Paleo recipes, guides to growing your own food and raising animals, and inspiring how-tos for crafts and entertaining, The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook is a guide not just for better eating, but for better living - and a better world.
The Hummingbird Handbook
By Shewey, John
Hummingbirds inspire an unmistakable sense of devotion and awe among bird lovers. Gardeners, too, love the company of hummingbirds, not only for their beauty, but also for their role as pollinators.The Hummingbird Handbook satisfies both bird lovers and gardeners alike with a colorful, generously illustrated package brimming with practical advice, important ecological information, and hundreds of stunning photos. John Shewey empowers you to attract hummingbirds to your own backyard by identifying the best bird feeders and the most effective techniques for enticing hungry hummers. Additional information includes details on planting and landscaping for hummingbirds and an identification guide to species found in North America.The Hummingbird Handbook is the complete guide to attracting, understanding, and protecting hummingbirds.
Organic Gardening Techniques
By Hamilton, Nick
The popularity of organic gardening continues to rise as people seek to control the quality and freshness of the food they eat. And organic gardening isn?t just about creating delicious healthy food for the table: it?s also about supporting delicate ecosystems and working without the use of chemicals. This comprehensive handbook of organic gardening techniques is full of practical information on sowing and growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, and other plants. From selecting the right tools to propagation, crop rotation, growing on supports, training greenhouse crops, watering, weed control?all of the essentials are here. Protecting crops from pests and diseases is dealt with comprehensively, along with extensive advice on storing and preserving your produce after the harvest.