Gardening & Horticulture

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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home - Paperback

$26.99

by Stephen Russell (Author)From the basics of using mushroom kits to working with grain spawn, liquid cultures, and fruiting chambers, Stephen Russell covers everything you need to know to produce mouthwatering shiitakes, oysters, lion's manes, maitakes, and portobellos. Whether you're interested in growing them for your own kitchen or to sell at a local market, you'll soon be harvesting a delicious and abundant crop of mushrooms. Back JacketHarvest Mushrooms at Home Learn to grow the most p...

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Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time - Paperback

$19.99

by Craig Lehoullier (Author)Savor your best tomato harvest ever Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and...

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The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods - Paperback

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by Brett McLeod (Author), Philip Ackerman-Leist (Foreword by)Put your wooded land to work This comprehensive manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. You'll learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice trees to make fuel, fodder, and furniture; build living fencing and shelters for animals; grow fruit tr...

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Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time - Hardcover

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Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener's Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round - Paperback

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by Barbara Pleasant (Author)Now that you've mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops -- including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more -- to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. Each vegetable profile highlights how many plants to grow for a year's worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for specific varietie...

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How to Prune Trees & Shrubs: Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming - Paperback

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by Barbara W. Ellis (Author)Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to use. Her plant-by-plant guide will give you the confidence you need ...

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Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques; Use Up to 90% Less Water in Your Garden - Paperback

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by David A. Bainbridge (Author)Are you facing drought or water shortages? Gardening with Less Water offers simple, inexpensive, low-tech techniques for watering your garden much more efficiently -- using up to 90 percent less water for the same results. With illustrated step-by-step instructions, David Bainbridge shows you how to install buried clay pots and pipes, wicking systems, and other porous containers that deliver water directly to a plant's roots with little to no evaporation. These ...

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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 - Paperback

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by Josh Volk (Author), Michael Ableman (Foreword by)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 how to harness an area's water supply, orientation, and geography in order to maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing effort. Profiles of well-known fa...

Flower Crowns: 30 Enchanting DIY Floral Creations - Paperback

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by Christy Meisner Doramus (Author)THE FIRST GUIDE SHOWING YOU HOW TO CRAFT THESE WILDLY POPULAR, WHIMSICAL AND GLAMOROUS HAIR ACCESSORIES AT HOME Whether you're at a wedding, going out on the town or partying at a musical festival, the flower crowns in this book will make your outfit standout for any occasion. With step-by-step instructions and photos, tips for choosing flowers and hints on color combinations, this is the ultimate guide to creating gorgeous crowns, including: - ROSEBUD &...

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Niki Jabbour's Veggie Garden Remix: 224 New Plants to Shake Up Your Garden and Add Variety, Flavor, and Fun - Paperback

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by Niki Jabbour (Author)2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner 2019 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner Best-selling author Niki Jabbour invites you to shake up your vegetable garden with an intriguing array of 224 plants from around the world. With her lively "Like this? Then try this " approach, Jabbour encourages you to start with what you know and expand your repertoire to try related plants, many of which are delicacies in other cultures. Jabbour presents detailed ...

100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive - Paperback

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by The Xerces Society (Author)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 support bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: pick the right plants for pollinators, protect them from pesticides, and provide abundant blooms ...

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Mini Meadows: Grow a Little Patch of Colorful Flowers Anywhere Around Your Yard - Paperback

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by Mike Lizotte (Author)The word "meadow" conjures images of wide expanses of land, but a mini meadow -- a kind of informal flower garden started with seed sown directly into the soil -- can be any size; plus, it's fun, easy to grow, and good for the planet. With as little as 50 square feet and for less than $20, gardeners can plant a colorful meadow that demands little in the way of space, mowing, or maintenance, uses less water than a traditional lawn, and provides habitat for pollinators -...

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100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive - Hardcover

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Design-Your-Garden Toolkit: Visualize the Perfect Plant Combinations for Your Yard; Step-By-Step Guide with Profiles of 128 Popular Plants, Reusable C - Paperback

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by Michelle Gervais (Author)Before picking up the trowel, pick up the stickers! With 150 reusable illustrated stickers -- representing dozens of plant cultivars that are versatile, readily available, and suitable for most temperate growing zones -- plus a fold-out design board and a book teaching five easy steps of garden design, you'll have everything you need to create your vision of the perfect garden. The durable cling stickers, with beautiful botanically accurate illustrations, can be la...

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Gardening with Emma: Grow and Have Fun: A Kid-To-Kid Guide - Paperback

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by Emma Biggs (Author), Steven Biggs (Author)National Parenting Product Awards Winner Thirteen-year-old Emma Biggs is passionate about gardening and eager to share her passion with other kids Gardening with Emma is a kid-to-kid guide to growing healthy food and raising the coolest, most awesome plants while making sure there's plenty of fun. With plants that tickle and make noise, tips for how to grow a flower stand garden, and suggestions for veggies from tiny to colossal, Emma offers a r...

Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Housep - Paperback

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by Mary Appelhof (Author), Joanne Olszewski (Author), Amy Stewart (Foreword by)For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen sink in an apartment -- making vermicomposting a great option for city dwellers and anyone who doesn't want or can'...

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Gardening with Biochar: Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal: Grow Healthier Plants, Create Nutrient-Rich Soil, and Increase Your Harvest - Paperback

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by Jeff Cox (Author)Bioactivated charcoal -- called biochar -- is the new darling of organic gardeners, embraced for its outstanding abilities to enrich the soil and improve plant growth. Gardening with Biochar is the first comprehensive guide to understanding, making, and using it effectively in the home garden. In this highly accessible handbook, long-time garden writer Jeff Cox explains what biochar is and provides detailed instructions for how it can be made from wood or other kinds of p...

Herb and Spice Seeds: A Pictorial Field Guide - Paperback

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by Terry A. Woodger (Author)This full-color, user-friendly field guide covers the basics involved in the collection, cleaning, and storage of herb and spice seeds. Learn from an expert how to overcome pests when storing seeds, and handle environmental factors that may threaten the integrity of your seeds. An introduction to identifying different varieties of seeds will make collecting easy for beginner and experienced collectors alike. Over 100 close-up color photographs of seeds gathered fro...

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Japanese Garden Notes: A Visual Guide to Elements and Design - Hardcover

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by Marc Peter Keane (Author)Marc Peter Keane's personal journey through 100 Japanese gardens, looking at them with a designer's eye.Author BiographyMarc Peter Keane: Marc Peter Keane, a graduate of Cornell University, is an American landscape architect and author. He has lived in Kyoto, Japan, for over 20 years and specializes in Japanese garden design. He is the author of several books about garden design: Japanese Garden Design (an introduction to the culture and design of Japanese gardens)...

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One Magic Square Vegetable Gardening: The Easy, Organic Way to Grow Your Own Food on a 3-Foot Square - Paperback

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by Lolo Houbein (Author)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: how to compost, save water, troubleshoot weeds and pests, create a plant-friendly microclimate, and more Over 40 themed plot designs, from antioxidant-rich and anti-cancer plots to salad, pizza, pasta, and stir-fry plots Encyclopedic information about every crop in ...

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Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living - Paperback

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by Rachel Kaplan (Author), K. Ruby Blume (Author)The urban homesteading movement is spreading rapidly across the nation. Urban Homesteading is the perfect "back-to-the-land" guide for urbanites who want to reduce their impact on the environment. Full of practical information, as well as inspiring stories from people already living the urban homesteading life, this colorful guide is an approachable guide to learning to live more ecologically in the city. The book embraces the core concepts of ...

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Fairy Gardening: Creating Your Own Magical Miniature Garden - Paperback

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by Julie Bawden-Davis (Author), Beverly Turner (Author)Design, plant, accessorize, and care for your very own fairy garden by choosing the perfect container, planting luxurious pint-sized plants, decorating with properly scaled accessories, and telling a story through the delicate fairies you choose. Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and q...

In the Vegetable Garden: My Nature Sticker Activity Book (Ages 5 and Up, with 102 Stickers, 24 Activities, and 1 Quiz): My Nature Sticker Activity Boo - Paperback

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by Olivia Cosneau (Author)What's more fun or magical than digging in the dirt, planting and watering seeds, discovering the first seedlings of the season, and finally eating your own fruits and vegetables? Part of the My Nature Sticker Activity Book series, In the Vegetable Garden is the perfect resource for keeping budding gardeners entertained for hours. Lovingly illustrated by Olivia Cosneau, this book is a colorful introduction to the magical world of the garden with a range of fun, inte...

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Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style - Hardcover

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by Christin Geall (Author)Elevate your floral design to fine art in this richly informative work on the principles of floral style. Floral designer, photographer, and teacher Christin Geall emboldens designers, gardeners, and entrepreneurs to think differently and deeply about their work with flowers and floral design, as she draws upon the fine arts and historical sources--whether exploring Baroque music, the paintings of the Impressionists, or the work of floral innovators like Gertrude Jek...

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Little Gardener: Helping Children Connect with the Natural World - Hardcover

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by Julie Cerny (Author), Ysemay Dercon (Illustrator)The Little Gardener is an engaging illustrated guide for parents, grandparents, caregivers, and educators who want to help children explore the natural world through gardening. Part how-to, part teaching tool, and part inspiration, The Little Gardener is a thoughtful combination of detailed instructions, tips, anecdotes, and seasonal activities designed to connect gardeners to natural systems. With fun projects, useful charts, and creative j...

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Feeder Birds of the Midwest: A Folding Pocket Guide to Common Backyard Birds - Paperback

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by Waterford Press (Compiled by), The (Author), Emma Greig (Editor)Bird feeders across the US Midwest are abuzz with activity, as different assortments of birds visit throughout the year. In migration, White-crowned Sparrows and Indigo Buntings join residents like Tufted Titmice and American Goldfinches. In all seasons, busy feeding stations serve as living laboratories where observers can peer more closely into the fascinating lives of common species. Attracting a wide variety of birds doesn...

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Round of a Country Year: A Farmer's Day Book - Paperback

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by David Kline (Author), Wendell Berry (Introduction by)David Kline has been called a "twentieth-century Henry David Thoreau" by his friends and contemporaries; an apt comparison given the quiet exuberance with which he records the quotidian goings-on on his organic family farm. Under David's attentive gaze and in his clear, insightful prose the reader is enveloped in the rhythms of farm life; not only the planting and harvesting of crops throughout the year, but the migration patterns of bir...

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Secret Medicines from Your Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality, and Magic - Paperback

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by Ellen Evert Hopman (Author)A guided exploration of herbal lore and healing plants found in yards, forests, meadows, and hedgerows - Draws on traditional knowledge and remedies from around the world, including Native American, Celtic, and Egyptian traditions - Provides simple recipes to safely make herbal remedies from local plants and honey for first aid, immune support, and treatment of common ailments - Details the "triangle" formula-making system of William LeSassier - Explains how to w...

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Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine in Your Own Back Yard - Paperback

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by Madrone Stewart (Author)Create the cannabis of your dreams! Weed is powerful medicine, and growing your own is as empowering as it gets. Experienced Humboldt farmer Madrone Stewart shares her hard-won knowledge gained from years of growing cannabis, Zen meditation, and surviving as a woman in a male-dominated industry. She walks you through the big picture and each detail of growing about six backyard plants, from selecting seeds to harvest and processing. Humorous, sage, and with a big he...

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The Stoner Babes Coloring Book - Paperback

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by Katie Guinn (Author)Diverse faces of beauty and empowerment This meditative, art-filled adult coloring book is inspired by the beauty of women and gender fluid people who savor the qualities of the marijuana plant. They are empowered, intelligent, motivated humans who pay no mind to judgment, for they're making their mark in this world no matter their color, shape, size, age, or gender. You'll enjoy coloring these highly detailed and varied pages, with tattoos, patterned garb, shape-filled...

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Commentary on Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course: From the Paul W. Scharff Archive - Paperback

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by Paul W. Scharff (Author), Harold E. Bush (Preface by)In these eight lectures, Dr. Scharff offers a profound overview of biodynamic methods, including the philosophy and esoteric foundations, as well as the most practical matters. In lecture 5, for example, he delves deeply into the biodynamic preparations discussed by Rudolf Steiner in his Agriculture Course, exploring each one individually: 500 - manure placed in the sheath of a horn501 - silica placed in the sheath of a horn 502 - yarro...

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by Rolland Hein (Author)Rolland Hein has woven together two of his passions--poetry and growing things--in a book that serves as both a Christian devotional and a gardening primer. The garden provides so many illustrations for life and growth for us as spiritual persons. Hein's illustrations are full of poignant quotes from such great poets as Simone Weil, Wiiliam Blake, Emily Dickinson, and John Updike. This book will serve as a tremendous resource for both seasoned and first-time gardeners....