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Unearthed: Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden
Alexandra Risen - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In this moving memoir, a woman digs into a garden and into the past and finds secrets, beauty, and acceptance. Alex's father dies just as she and her husband buy a nondescript house set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city. Choked with weeds... |
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Square Foot Gardening High-Value Veggies: Homegrown Produce Ranked by Value
Mel Bartholomew - Cool Springs Press
Format: Print book
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Calculate the return on investment for your vegetable garden and get the most bang for your gardening bucks!Get the most return on investment from your garden by calculating which vegetables, fruits, and herbs give the highest payback. To make the selection process of what to grow easy,... |
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Small Space Garden Ideas
Philippa Pearson - DK Publishing
Format: Print book
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Perfect for people who have little space to garden, whether a doorstep, balcony, or part of a wall. Small Space Garden Ideas is full of creative ideas for making use of every growing space available. From windowsills and hanging baskets to rooftop containers and vertical gardens,... |
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Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life
Peter Walsh - Rodale
Format: Print book
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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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Straw Bale Gardens Complete
Joel Karsten - Cool Springs Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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"Are you ready to learn about a transformative garden technology that could change your life - for less than $100?" - New York TimesTake your straw bale gardening to the next level - in more places, with new products, and even, sometimes, skipping the straw!The reception... |
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Don't Throw It, Grow It!: 68 windowsill plants from kitchen scraps
Deborah Peterson - Storey
Format: Paperback
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Magic and wonder hide in unexpected places -- a leftover piece of ginger, a wrinkled potato left too long in its bag, a humdrum kitchen spice rack. In Don't Throw It, Grow It! Deborah Peterson reveals the hidden possibilities in everyday foods. Peterson, former president of the American... |
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Vern yip's design wise : your smart guide to a beautiful home
Vern Yip - Running Press
Format: Print book
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Vern Yip is one of the most beloved and recognizable interior designers in America. Over the course of his near-decade at HGTV, he has counseled thousands of people on beautifying their homes on limited budgets. Through his shows, as well as in his regular column "Learn from Vern"... |
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Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
Gene Logsdon - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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For more than four decades, the self-described "contrary farmer" and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Logsdon addresses the next generation -- young people who are moving back to the land... |
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Bonsai
DK Publishing - Dk Pub
Format: Hardcover
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Bonsai brings serenity to the home with beautiful miniature trees in idyllic container landscapes. Now DK brings this ancient practice into the 21st century, explaining how to grow and care for bonsai trees with a clear step-by-step approach. Offering easy-to-follow advice and simple photography,... |
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Compost: How to make and use organic compost to transform your garden
Clare Foster - Mitchell Beazley; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this new edition of her hands-on guide to the art of composting, House & Garden garden editor, Clare Foster, shows you how to build a compost box, select the best ingredients and put the resulting organic compost to the best use in your outdoor space. By taking some dead leaves, grass... |
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Idiot's Guides: Straw Bale Gardening
John Tullock - Alpha
Format: Print book
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Gardening has "grown" to be more popular than ever. Idiot's Guides: Straw Bale Gardening features a great way to grow vegetables - even when space is limited. Hundreds of helpful, step-by-step color photographs illustrate how to arrange, prepare, and successfully grow... |
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Bloom-Again Orchids: 50 Easy-Care Orchids that Flower Again and Again and Again
judywhite - Timber Press
Format: Book
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Orchids have a reputation as the divas of the plant world: fussy, difficult-to-grow plants that ― on top of all that ― are prohibitively expensive. But there are plenty of orchids that anyone can grow. Orchids are no more difficult than familiar houseplants such as the African... |
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Indoor Edible Garden
Janette Marshall - DK
Format: Print book
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Grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers in your home that look amazing and taste even better with Indoor Edible Garden.Featuring 28 innovative step-by-step projects, Indoor Edible Garden is a highly visual guide full of practical tips and stylish ideas for how to create edible... |
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Home
Ellen DeGeneres - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Print book
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Ellen DeGeneres has bought and renovated nearly a dozen homes over the last twenty-five years, and describes her real-estate and decorating adventures as "an education." She has long cared deeply about design: "I think I wanted to be an interior designer when I was thirteen." |
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Homegrown Herb Garden: A Guide to Growing and Culinary Uses
Ann McCormick - Quarry Books
Format: Book
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Take your home cooking to the next level by incorporating fresh homegrown herbs! You dont need lots of space for a huge herb garden, and you dont need to spend a lot of money on fresh herbs at the grocery store or farmers market. With Homegrown Herb Garden, you can choose the herb or herbs... |
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Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes
Nicole Curtis - Artisan
Format: Print book
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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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Container Theme Gardens: 42 Combinations, Each Using 5 Perfectly Matched Plants
Nancy J. Ondra - Storey Pub.
Format: Print book
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Simple and foolproof! Enjoy beautiful container plantings with no stress or fuss. Container Theme Gardens offers 42 plans for container arrangements, each using just five specific plants that you can find at your local garden center. There's something here for every setting and every... |
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Solving Deer Problems: How to Deerproof Your Yard and Garden
Peter Loewer - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book
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What can I do? Gardeners are asking themselvesand expertsthis question with increasing urgency about the deer that threaten their carefully cultivated lawns and gardens. With the increased development of suburban and rural land and the lack of natural predators, deer populations are exploding... |
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