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 | Originally published in 1959, this is the book that started it all. J.I. Rodale, founder of the organic gardening movement in the United States, compiled information from his visionary magazine into a 1100 page masterpiece on the art and function of organic gardening. Not a word has been changed in this nostalgic, yet extraordinarily applicable work. Topics include flower and vegetable gardening, soils, composting, greenhouses, fruit and nut trees, lawns, landscaping, pest control, and more. The ...
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 Price: 299.00 $ |  | More and more gardeners are choosing to work with nature - by growing plants that attract beneficial insects and birds to help them control common garden pests or to pollinate home-grown vegetables or fruit. Over the next few years this trend is set to increase as organic gardening gains converts and the range of pesticides approved for domestic use is substantially reduced. But what if, like many new gardeners, you have a small, handkerchief-sized plot and still want to attract beneficial wildl ...
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Price: 282.23 $ |  | Organic gardeners reveal their best tips and tricks for starting seeds, creating healthy soil, tending the garden, and stretching the growing season in Gardener to Gardener ¿ Seed-Starting Primer & Almanac . Compiled for gardeners just like you by the editors and readers of Organic Gardening magazine, youll find month-by-month activities, timesaving gadgets, and wheelbarrow loads of garden-tested advice, such as how to: * Increase yields by rounding the surface of flat garden beds * Build a ...
Amazon / Rodale Books / Book
Price: 204.46 $ |  | A witty, informal guide to gardening in the high desert areas of the Great Basin. It begins with the authors philosophy and a short history of gardening and features chapters on: Landscape planning, xeriscaping, and firescaping; Intelligent water use; Composting and mulching; Propagating; Tools and planting tips; Identifying weeds and controlling pests; Rock and container gardening; Preventing or repairing wind and snow damage; Fruiticulture, vegiculture and floriculture; Tree and shrub care; He ...
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Price: 189.74 $ |  | Expert advice, practical shortcuts, inspiration and time-tested tips for house plant lovers everywhere--Even the recipe for Grandma Putts Homemade Plant Food! Jerry Baker has included everything the house planter needs to know including fool-proof tips on growing seeds and young plantings, 14 drinks plants prefer to tap water, the perfect light to grow by, savvy advice on container, herb, and organic gardening, and sure-fire cures for bugs and blotches. ...
Amazon / Plume / Book
Price: 77.76 $ |  | This filmed workshop on year-round vegetable production offers farmers and gardeners the rare chance to sit in with Eliot Coleman, one of the pioneers of the organic farming movement and author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest , and The Winter Harvest Handbook . During his careers as commercial market gardener, director of agricultural research projects, developer of tools for organic growers, and teacher and lecturer on organic gardening, Coleman has studied, practiced, and perfec ...
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Price: 72.96 $ |  | Rodales Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years—and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest controls, new fertilizer products, improved gardening techniques, the latest organic soil practices, and new trends in garden design. In this indispens ...
Amazon / Rodale Press / Book
Price: 54.60 $ |  | Information packed reference section clearly outline the philosophy behind organic gardening and cooking. ...
Amazon / Anness / Book
Price: 50.00 $ |  | This technique can save the earthwhile resulting in a beautiful garden, too! Climate Conscious Gardener picks up where Brooklyn Botanic Gardening’s groundbreaking Environmental Gardener left off, giving homeowners, landscapers, and public park managers practical strategies for greening the planet through sustainable and organic gardening. In simple terms, an introductory section explains what happens when the balance of carbon and nitrogen in the atmosphere goes awry, and how plants, soil, and ...
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Price: 42.38 $ |  | Lady Salisbury has been a gardener since, as a child in the 1930s, she cultivated tiny patches of her parents gardens in Ireland and the West of England. Later, as chatelaine first of Cranborne Manor and then of Hatfield House, she revived two of the great historic gardens of England. Then there the gardens that, as a professional garden designer, she has created for others, notably for the Prince of Wales at Highgrove and for the Museum of Garden History and Cosby Hall in London (As a gardener ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 40.90 $ |
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