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Stress-Free Vegetable Gardening: Thriving Gardens with Minimal Effort

Caleb Warnock - Hobble Creek Press, 2015.
Format: Print book

Save time and money in your garden! This book shows you exactly how easy it is to create an abundant crop with almost no effort. All you have to do is stop fighting against your garden's natural growing patterns and get out of Mother Nature's way; she'll do the hard work for you!...
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Essential Pruning Techniques: Trees, Shrubs, and Conifers

Tony Kirkham - Timber Press
Format: Print book

A master class on pruning Pruning is an essential part of garden maintenance; it is necessary to regulate and control growth and to encourage flowering and fruiting on trees and shrubs. It is also one of the most difficult parts of garden maintenance. To prune well, gardeners must have...
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Raised Bed Revolution: Build It, Fill It, Plant It ... Garden Anywhere

Tara Nolan - Cool Springs Press
Format: Hardcover

Join the revolution and create a beautiful raised bed garden with inspiration from the ultimate raised bed gardening guidebook! Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is its ultimate guidebook. The book includes information about...
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150 Best Tiny Home Ideas

Manel GutiÃrrez Couto - Harper Design
Format: Print book

A lavish, full-color guidebook showcasing the most up-to-date innovations and latest trends in efficient and successful small space design.Packed with detailed color photographs, comprehensive layout illustrations, and essential information, 150 Best Tiny Homes is the ideal solution for making...
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Plants You Cant Kill: 101 Easy-to-Grow Species for Beginning Gardeners

Stacy Tornio - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

"I kill everything I plant."Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Cant...
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Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

Scott Hoffman Black - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Library Journal Starred Review Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of colorful garden guests who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where...
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Native Plants of the Midwest: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 500 Species for the Garden

Alan Branhagen - Timber Press
Format: Print book

Native Plants of the Midwest, by regional plant expert Alan Branhagan, features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden. Plant profiles for more than 500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ground covers,...
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Herb Gardening: How to Prepare the Soil, Choose Your Plants, and Care For, Harvest, and Use Your Herbs

Melissa Melton Snyder - Countryman Press
Format: Print book

A comprehensive guide to starting an herb garden, written for beginners The consummate beginners guide for anyone interested in starting an herb garden. It will explain, in simple terms, everything you need to know about choosing the site, preparing the soil, choosing the plants, caring...
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The Beginner's Guide to Building a Garden One Project at a Time: 326 Fast, Easy, Affordable Ways to Transform Your Yard

Sally Roth - Timber Press
Format: Print book

A fresh approach and simple way to transform your yard! The prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend...
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Compact Farms: 15 Proven Plans for Market Farms on 5 Acres or Less; Includes Detailed Farm Layouts for Productivity and Efficiency

Josh Volk - Storey Publishing
Format: Print book

Small is beautiful, and these 15 real farm plans show that small-scale farmers can have big-time success. Compact Farms is an illustrated guide for anyone dreaming of starting, expanding, or perfecting a profitable farming enterprise on five acres or less. The farm plans explain...
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The Art of Discarding: How to Get Rid of Clutter and Find Joy

Nagisa Tatsumi - Hachette Books
Format: Print book

The book that inspired Marie Kondo's The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Nagisa Tatsumi's international bestseller offers a practical plan to figure out what to keep and what to discard so you can get - and stay - tidy, once and for all.Practical and inspiring, The Art of Discarding...
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The Dragonfly-Friendly Gardener: Create a Garden Home for Dragonflies and Damselflies

Ruary Mackenzie Dodds - Saraband
Format: Print book

With stunning colors and phenomenal flying abilities, dragonflies are extraordinarily beautiful, and vital to the ecosystem. Britain's leading dragonfly expert offers tips on how to attract these amazing insects to your garden. From creating a pond and choosing the right plants, to long-term...
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All the Presidents' Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses, How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America

Marta McDowell - Timber Press
Format: Print book

"This informative gem of a book is for readers fascinated by either gardening or presidential history." - Library Journal The eighteen acres that surround the White House have been an unwitting witness to history--a backdrop for soldiers, suffragettes, protestors, and activists....
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Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms

Erin Benzakein - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

From Erin Benzakein, a leader in the locaflor farm-to-centerpiece movement and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm, Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration - a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements...
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Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day

MELISSA MAKER - Avery
Format: Hardcover

The wildly popular YouTube star behind Clean My Space presents the breakthrough solution to cleaning better with less effort Melissa Maker is beloved by fans all over the world for her completely re-engineered approach to cleaning. As the dynamic new authority on home and living,...
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David C Deardorff
Format: Audio CD

This book will turn even the brownest thumbs green! Houseplants add style, clean the air, and bring nature indoors. But they are often plagued with problems - aphids, mealybugs, mites, and thrips to name just a few. What's Wrong With My Houseplant? shows you how to keep indoor plants...
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Grow Native: Bringing Natural Beauty to Your Garden

Lynn M Steiner - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book

Learn how to transform your yard into a beautiful landscape using native plants!You don't have to compromise beauty for natural landscapes with ecological responsibility and sustainability. In master gardener Lynn Steiner's book Grow Native, you'll find guidance for planting...
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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes

Nicole Curtis - Artisan
Format: Print book

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller For the first time, Nicole Curtis, the star of the megahit HGTV and DIY Network show Rehab Addict, reveals her private struggles, her personal victories, and the inspiring lessons we can all learn from them. Part celebrity...
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Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

Fumio Sasaki - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling phenomenon from Japan that shows us a minimalist life is a happy life.Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo -- he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided...
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Prairie & Plains States Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year

Cathy Wilkinson Barash - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book

Gardeners living in the wide-open Prairie and Plains states need this guidebook on their bookshelves--it's bound to get smudged with dirt from constant reference!Growing annuals, perennials, and edibles on the great plains or in windy prairie country can yield flat-out beautiful gardens--provided...
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Plumbing

Steve Cory - The Taunton Press
Format: Print book

Stanley's Plumbing: A Homeowner's Guide is a comprehensive, visual handbook packed with step-by-step photographs and authoritative, reliable information. Eventually, every homeowner needs to repair, replace, or upgrade a plumbing fixture. Save heaps of money by learning...
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Home Gardener's No-Dig Raised Bed Gardens: Growing Vegetables, Salads and Soft Fruit in Raised No-Dig Beds

Allan Bridgewater - Creative Homeowner
Format: Print book

Home Gardener's No-Dig Raised Bed Gardens is the essential guide to gardening successfully with the minimum amount of digging and weeding. For those without the time or stamina to spend hours maintaining a garden, horticulture experts Alan and Gill Bridgewater show how to make raised...
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Year of No Clutter: A Memoir

Eve O Schaub - Sourcebooks
Format: Print book

Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every corner and on every surface in her house. When she pledges to tackle the worst offender, her horror of a "Hell Room," she anticipates finally being able to throw away all of the unnecessary...
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The Timber Press guide to vegetable gardening in the Midwest

Michael VanderBrug - Timber Press
Format:  Print book : English : First edition

How to grow your own food in the Heartland! There is nothing more regionally specific than vegetable gardening - what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are decisions based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest,...
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One Magic Square Vegetable Gardening: The Easy, Organic Way to Grow Your Own Food on a 3-Foot Square

Lolo Houbein - Experiment Llc
Format: Print book

All it takes to grow your own organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs is One Magic Square Lolo Houbein has 40 years' worth of gardening wisdom to share - on how to coax an abundance of organic food from a plot that is just 3 feet square!Sustainable, cost-effective, and creative techniques:...
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The Children's Garden: Loads of Things to Make & Grow

Matthew Appleby - Frances Lincoln
Format: Print book

A garden can be a place for discovery, creativity and fun, and a space that encourages children to enjoy and engage with the natural world.Through 52 exciting family projects, one for every week of the year, this book inspires parents and their children aged 5 to play and learn in the garden,...
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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

Tracy Disabato-Aust - Timber Press
Format: Print book

"This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice." - Real Simple Gardeners everywhere have benefited from the trusty advice, reassuring tone, and helpful illustrations of The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Now this completely revised third edition introduces...
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Victory Gardens for Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees

Lori Weidenhammer - Douglas and McIntyre
Format: Print book

Who knew modern civilization may be brought down, not by plagues or war, but by bees? Or, more correctly, by no bees? This book investigates the growing problem of bee mortality and offers practical measures we can all take to help. In ecological terms, bees play a critical role in the survival...
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The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction

Kent Lester - Betterway
Format: Book

Save 30% on home construction! Whether you want to take on all the responsibility of contracting your home or simply want to intelligently communicate with your homebuilder, The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home can help you save 30% or more on the cost of home construction...

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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life

Peter Walsh - Rodale
Format: Print book

Sorting through a lifetime's worth of accumulated possessions can be a daunting and stressful process that millions of Americans confront every year. The need to downsize often arises at a momentous life change, whether you're an empty nester or retiree selling your family home, a newlywed...
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L'art de la Simplicit: How to Live More with Less

Dominique Loreau - Griffin
Format: Print book

If simplicity is an art, then Dominique Loreau is a master. Having lived in Japan for many years and inspired by Eastern philosophy, Loreau discovered the beauty of a life well lived through the art of simplicity. Her lifestyle rests on the principle of less is more, and imbues all areas...
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The Aromatherapy Garden: Growing Fragrant Plants for Happiness and Well-Being

Kathi Keville - Timber Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

Immerse yourself in the healing power of fragrance! The Aromatherapy Garden explains how fragrant plants can be as therapeutic as they are intoxicating, and how easy it is to add this captivating element to gardens large and small. It reveals the scents, secrets, and science behind fragrant...
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How to Prune Trees & Shrubs: Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS Title

Barbara Ellis - Storey Books
Format: Print book

How to Prune Trees and Shrubs stresses the importance of determining the unique needs of each plant and then developing a plan before pruning it. It helps readers develop the skill and knowledge they need, whether they're motivated gardeners or beginners who simply want to maintain...
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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

Xerces Society. - Storey Books
Format: Print book

The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract...
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