Download or read book The Gardener s Perpetual Almanack written by Martin Hoyles and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that red herrings or garlic could rid your garden of moles, or that rosemary is supposed to make the heart merry and drive fantasies from the brain? Or when is the best time to start a beehive?
Download or read book We Are the Gardeners written by Joanna Gaines and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach children that the greatest rewards come from patience, hard work, and learning from mistakes! In the #1 New York Times bestseller We Are the Gardeners, Joanna Gaines and the kids chronicle the adventures of starting their own family garden. From their failed endeavors, obstacles to overcome (bunnies that eat everything), and all of the knowledge they gain along the way, the Gaines family shares how they learned to grow a happy, successful garden. We Are the Gardeners is a whimsical picture book perfect for: Ages 4-8 Parents, libraries, classroom story times, and discussions focusing on springtime and gardening Households that enjoy watching HGTV's Fixer Upper Young children and families interested in gardening and plants After reading, children will learn: Trying something new isn't always easy, but the hardest work often yields the greatest reward The basic steps and process of starting a garden The importance of patience and how it is possible to learn from your mistakes You and your children will learn all about the Gaines family's story of becoming gardeners in Joanna's first children's book--starting with the first little fern Chip bought for Jo. Over the years, the family's love for gardening has blossomed into what is now a beautiful, bustling garden.
Download or read book The Gardener s Day Book written by Richardson Little Wright and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Figs in Cold Climates written by Lee Reich and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to grow fresh figs organically in cold climates—from Minnesota to Moscow—with the help of this informative guide. Growing Figs in Cold Climates is a complete, full-color, illustrated guide to organic methods for growing delicious figs in cold climates, well outside the traditional hot, arid home of this ancient fruiting tree. Coverage includes: Five methods for growing figs in cold climates including overwintering Cultivar selection for cool and cold climates Pruning techniques for a variety of methods of growing figs in cold climates Pest problems and solutions Harvesting, including ways to speed ripening, identify ripe fruit, and manage an overabundance Small-scale commercial fig production in cold climates Fresh figs are juicy, full-bodied, and filled with a honey-sweet flavor, and because truly ripe figs are highly perishable, they are only available to those who grow their own. By choosing the right cultivars and techniques, figs can be grown across cool and cold growing zones of North America, Europe, and beyond, putting them within reach of almost every gardener. Easy and delicious—if you can grow a houseplant, you can grow a fig. Praise for Growing Figs in Cold Climates “Lee Reich is a master at growing food, especially fruits, and his extensive personal knowledge about figs comes through clearly in his writings. . . . Follow his advice for growing figs and you are guaranteed success.” —Robert Pavlis, author, Garden Myths, Building Natural Ponds, and Soil Science for Gardeners, owner, Aspen Grove Gardens “We have grown this delicious fruit on Maine’s chilly coast, but Lee shows us how to do it even better.” —Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman, farmers, Four Season Farm, authors
Download or read book The Gardener written by S. A. Bodeen and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mason has never known his father, but longs to. All he has of him is a DVD of a man whose face is never seen, reading a children's book. One day, on a whim, he plays the DVD for a group of comatose teens at the nursing home where his mother works. One of them, a beautiful girl, responds. Mason learns she is part of a horrible experiment intended to render teenagers into autotrophs—genetically engineered, self-sustaining life-forms who don't need food or water to survive. And before he knows it, Mason is on the run with the girl, and wanted, dead or alive, by the mysterious mastermind of this gruesome plan, who is simply called the Gardener. Will Mason be forced to destroy the thing he's longed for most? The Gardener is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book The Gardener s Gripe Book written by Abby Adams and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers reflections on the challenges and rewards of gardening, and includes advice on planning and maintaining flower, herb, and vegetable gardens
Download or read book The Pacific Northwest Gardener s Book of Lists written by Jan McNeilan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 lists for Pacific Northwest gardeners.
Download or read book The Education Of A Gardener written by Russell Page and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, and practical know-how. They are not only essential reading for today’s gardeners, but a master’s compelling reflection on the deep sources and informing principles of his art. The Education of a Gardener offers charming, sometimes pointed anecdotes about patrons, colleagues, and, of course, gardens, together with lucid advice for the gardener. Page discusses how to plan a garden that draws on the energies of the surrounding landscape, determine which plants will do best in which setting, plant for the seasons, handle color, and combine trees, shrubs, and water features to rich and enduring effect. To read The Education of a Gardener is to wander happily through a variety of gardens in the company of a wise, witty, and knowledgeable friend. It will provide pleasure and insight not only to the dedicated gardener, but to anyone with an interest in abiding questions of design and aesthetics, or who simply enjoys an unusually well-written and thoughtful book.
Download or read book The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners written by Deborah Kellaway and published by Virago. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.
Download or read book A Gardener s Book of Days written by Rosemary Verey and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated gardener's record book packed full of useful gardening advice, month by month.
Download or read book The Gardeners Book written by Diana Craig and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gardeners' Book is a celebration of the wonderful and ancient art of gardening, providing practical advice and inspiration on how to rejuvenate or improve an existing garden. The book includes fascinating facts, gardening lore and history, garden games, tips on how to make your garden the most impressive in the street, how to make and nurture a compost heap, when to sow a lawn and planning your garden to maximum effect. From allotment gardening and tending the topiary to greenhouses and greenfly, The Gardeners' Book will inspire and spur any gardener on to greater things.
Download or read book Victoria Book of Days written by and published by Hearst Communications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one hundred beautiful photographs and illustrations from Victorian writers and poets provide ideas for gift giving, collecting, and gardening.
Download or read book An Itinerant Gardener s Book of Days written by Mary A Agria and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning garden writer Mary Agria tackles the challenge of multi-climate gardening in An Itinerant Gardener's Book of Days, a year-long journey through the world of gardens and gardeners. Sunbirds and Snowbirds from California to New York, Northern Michigan to the Desert Southwest will find humor, inspiration, technical tips and a fascinating glimpse into the history of gardens, calendars, ancient gardening customs and so much more in this thoughtful glimpse into the gardener's life. Author Agria was winner of the Michigan Garden Clubs' feature writing competitions in 2017, 2018 and 2019 for her column on gardening and spirituality that has run in Northern Michigan newspapers since 2006. Fifty-two of the columns were also featured in her previous work, Through the Gardener's Year. Her gardening novels-Time in a Garden [a regional best-seller in 2006], Garden of Eve, From the Tender Stem and Range of Motion [2019]-have also won her acclaim from readers and reviewers from coast to coast.
Download or read book A Montana Gardener s Book of Days written by Bob Gough and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal and reference volume for Montana gardeners.
Download or read book The Gardener s Calendar a Garden Guide for Every Day of the Year written by Thomas Geoffrey Wall Henslow and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 365 Days of Gardening written by Christine Allison and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more 1,000 gardening tips arranged by season and by day, this indispensable how-to guide for gardeners of all levels of expertise has the same popular design and functional format as the other books in the 365 Ways series. Line drawings and black-and-white photos throughout.
Download or read book Gardener s Day Book written by Laura Stoddart and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting gift book in which to write your thoughts
