Download or read book Alabama Gardener s Guide written by Jennifer Greer and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2001-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alabama Gardener's Guide" offers state-specific information on the what, when, where, why and how of Alabama gardening rather than generic regional or national information other publications contain.
Download or read book Harvesting Alabama written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the enriching world of self-sufficiency and embrace the rustic charm of Alabama homesteading with your guide to a bountiful and sustainable life "Harvesting Alabama." This comprehensive eBook is a treasure trove of wisdom, offering a deep dive into cultivating a vibrant homestead in the Heart of Dixie. Whether you're a seasoned green thumb or just planting your first seedling, this book is the key to unlocking the full potential of your homestead. "Harvesting Alabama" sets its roots with a clear understanding of Alabama's unique climate, from seasonal weather patterns to regional growing zones. Learn to adapt and thrive with tailored strategies for selecting the perfect homestead location—analyze your land, assess water sources, and ensure you're never too far from your essential markets and supplies. Advance to homestead layout design where principles of sustainability aren't just buzzwords; they're a way of life. Discover efficient workflows and renewable energy solutions that harmonize with nature. Maximize your land's fertility with profound insight on Alabama's soil types, practical crop rotation, and time-honored composting methods. Open the gates to a year-round garden with careful cultivar selection and planting strategies that promise a continuous harvest. Conserve every precious drop of water with innovative management techniques, and foster a thriving livestock environment with guidance on health, wellness, and pasture management designed for the Southern climate. Breathe life into your homestead with beekeeping essentials and pollinator benefits. Cultivate an orchard and fruit production foundation, and care for homestead poultry with expertise. Tackle pests and weeds organically, foraging the wild for an added cornucopia of edibles. The bounty continues inside with chapters dedicated to preserving your harvest through canning, root cellaring, and fermentation. Embrace southern traditions with chapters on crafting, seasonal chores, effective community networking, and land stewardship. Furthermore, "Harvesting Alabama" addresses every aspect of homestead living, including business planning, health, legal considerations, embracing technology, retirement, and leaving a legacy. This all-encompassing manual culminates in an invaluable Alabama homesteader's yearly planner, to keep you on track through each season. Completing the cycle of homestead life, "Harvesting Alabama" is more than just a book—it is a companion for turning your homestead dreams into reality. Don't miss the chance to nurture your land and legacy with this essential guide to a harmonious and fruitful homestead life.
Download or read book 50 Beautiful Deer Resistant Plants written by Ruth Rogers Clausen and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping your beautiful garden safe from deer is as simple as choosing the right plants. In 50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants, gardening expert Ruth Rogers Clausen introduces the most versatile and drool-worthy options: white snowdrops that bloom in the spring; shade-loving, electric gold hakone grass; long-blooming Texas sage in vibrant reds, peaches, and pinks; and the feathery foliage of Arkansas blue stars that glows golden in the autumn. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs of every plant, this inspiring guide offers everything a plant-lover with a deer problem needs to know. In addition to the 50 best annuals, perennials, bulbs, ferns, grasses, and shrubs — plus advice on how to grow them — Clausen includes dozens of deer-resistant companions and smart design tips for pulling it all together. And here's the best part: your gorgeous garden will be irresistible to everyone but those pesky deer.
Download or read book Deep South Month by Month Gardening written by Nellie Neal and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year.
Download or read book The Year Round Hoophouse written by Pam Dawling and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and build a hoophouse or polytunnel, and grow abundant produce year-round in any climate The Year-Round Hoophouse is the comprehensive guide to designing and building a hoophouse and making a success of growing abundant, delicious fresh produce all year, whatever your climate and land size. Chapters include: Hoophouse siting, size, style, frame construction, and tools Bed layout, soil, crop rotations, and extensive coverage of various crops for all seasons Organic solutions to pests and diseases Disaster preparation Tested resources for each chapter. The Year-Round Hoophouse is ideal for farmers who wish to move into protected growing, as well as beginning farmers in rural and urban spaces. It is an essential reference resource for professors and students of courses in sustainable agriculture, as well as interns and apprentices learning on the job. Growing in hoophouses – also known as high tunnels or polytunnels – reduces the impact of an increasingly unpredictable climate on crops, mitigates soil erosion, extends the growing season, keeps leafy greens alive through the winter, and enables growers to supply more regional food needs.
Download or read book Sustainable Market Farming written by Pam Dawling and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement.
Download or read book Florida Survival Gardening written by David The Good and published by Good Books. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can your Florida garden feed you in tough times? The answer is yes, and it's easier than you think. In this important new book from Florida gardening expert David the Good, you'll learn how to grow staple crops and provide your family with enough calories and nutrition to get through a crisis. Learn to beat weeds and pests, turn Florida sand into soil, garden with very few resources and provide your family with survival food without breaking the bank. Florida Survival Gardening is the culmination of decades of research on growing food in the Sunshine State. Discover the staple crops that will keep you full and the nutrient-dense plants that will keep you healthy. Stop worrying about uncertain supply lines and difficult times and plant a survival garden that will keep going through the year in Florida's unique climate. Step-by-step, you'll learn exactly how to grow a Florida garden that works with the climate and requires just hand tools to start and maintain in this illustrated guide that includes plans and survival crop suggestions for gardens in both the northern and southern halves of the state. Don't panic. You can do this. It's time to harvest the bounty Florida can provide.
Download or read book The Nonstop Color Garden written by Nellie Neal and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your garden can be a kaleidoscope of color in every season! Ask any gardener and they will tell you, color is the most important (and most fun!) part of garden design. In The Nonstop Color Garden, author Nellie Neal shows how to use color as an exciting element in your garden during all four seasons--and it's not just flowers! Year-round color is possible by including trees, shrubs, and groundcovers that produce colorful berries and bark, as well as flowers during spring and summer. Even the shapes of plants can enhance your garden by providing all-season architectural interest--Nellie makes it easy to explore it all. The Nonstop Color Garden is perfect for the more experienced gardener, but even an engaged novice will find much to learn about the best plants for nonstop color, garden structure, and garden design. Nellie presents several strategies for crafting a thematically cohesive yet unstylized landscape that includes plant selection and placement. Use the balanced juxtaposition of opposites in texture, size, shape and color. Create unifying pairings of similar foliage types. Work with existing land forms and indigenous vegetation. Everyone who takes pride and pleasure in their garden will not want to miss this informative, fun, colorful book!
Download or read book 100 Things to Do in Alabama Before You Die 2nd Edition written by Mary Johns Wilson and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its white, sugar sand Gulf Coast beaches to the sparkling lights and excitement of big cities to peaceful landscapes and breathtaking mountain scenery, this state truly is Alabama the Beautiful. In 100 Things to Do in Alabama Before You Die, author Mary Johns Wilson captures that beauty, making it easy for travelers and locals alike to experience the state’s best restaurants, shops, museums, venues, sports, and more. There’s the obvious, such as the annual Iron Bowl football game between the University of Alabama and Auburn University. There’s the lesser known, like the Aliceville Museum that tells how the tiny town was home to the state’s largest World War II Prisoner of War Camp and housed thousands of Rommel’s German troops. There’s the quirky, including the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise—the world’s first monument to an insect. There’s the belly-filling, such as Big Bob Gibson’s Bar-B-Q in Decatur and Jesse’s Restaurant in Magnolia Springs near the coast. Spending a day on the Civil Rights Trail in Birmingham or at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery is a meaningful way to encounter the painful and powerful history. Local author Mary Johns Wilson ties the lessons of history to the promise of the future woven throughout the state she loves. Hit the road and use this book as your guide to discover all Alabama has to offer and learn why it’s such a sweet place to call home.
Download or read book Year Round Indoor Salad Gardening written by Peter Burke and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse. Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn’t have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as “microgreens” left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors. After some research and diligent experimenting, Burke discovered he was right—there was a way! And it was even easier than he ever could have hoped, and the greens more nutrient packed. He didn’t even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark. Growing “Soil Sprouts”—Burke’s own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars—employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Indeed, of all the ways to grow immature greens, this is the easiest and most productive technique. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps! This book is a revolutionary and inviting guide for both first-time and experienced gardeners in rural or urban environments. All you need is a windowsill or two. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering this method (hint: it’s impossible not to succeed, it’s so easy!), tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.
Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Succulent Container Gardens written by Debra Lee Baldwin and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Define your individual style. With their colorful leaves, sculptural shapes, and simple care, succulents are beautiful yet forgiving plants for pots. If grown in containers, these dry-climate jewels—which include but are not limited to cacti—can be brought indoors in winter and so can thrive anywhere in the world. In this inspiring compendium, the popular author of Designing with Succulents provides everything beginners and experienced gardeners need to know to create stunning container displays of exceptionally waterwise plants. The extensive palette includes delicate sedums, frilly echeverias, cascading senecios, edgy agaves, and fat-trunked beaucarneas, to name just a few. Easy-to-follow, expert tips explain soil mixes, overwintering, propagation, and more.
Download or read book Southern Gardener s Handbook written by Troy B. Marden and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to select, plan, plant, maintain, and problem-solve for gardeners living in the South. Every season in the South presents a gardening opportunity. Take advantage of all of them by choosing the perfect plants! Using the right plants makes gardening not only easier, but more fun, and helps you grow the best-looking and healthiest garden possible. The Southern Gardener’s Handbook helps experienced and expert-level gardeners pick the ideal plants to get the most pleasure from their gardens. Detailed plant profiles help you get the best bang for your buck (and work) in the garden. Helpful advice about caring for the unique needs of southern gardens, along with complete information about USDA Hardiness zones make this a resource you will not want to go without. Annuals, biennials, perennials, tropicals, bulbs, ornamental grasses, trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines, lawns and vegetables are all covered in depth by gardening expert and writer Troy B. Marden. Nearly 300 at-a-glance full-color photos and plant profiles allow you to plan, create and enjoy the very best results from your garden.
Download or read book The complete travel guide for Alabama written by and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At YouGuide™, we are dedicated to bringing you the finest travel guides on the market, meticulously crafted for every type of traveler. Our guides serve as your ultimate companions, helping you make the most of your journeys around the world. Our team of dedicated experts works tirelessly to create comprehensive, up-todate, and captivating travel guides. Each guide is a treasure trove of essential information, insider insights, and captivating visuals. We go beyond the tourist trail, uncovering hidden treasures and sharing local wisdom that transforms your travels into extraordinary adventures. Countries change, and so do our guides. We take pride in delivering the most current information, ensuring your journey is a success. Whether you're an intrepid solo traveler, an adventurous couple, or a family eager for new horizons, our guides are your trusted companions to every country. For more travel guides and information, please visit www.youguide.com
Download or read book The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast written by Ira Wallace and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Southeast tackles this need head on, with regionally specific growing information written by local gardening expert, Ira Wallace. Monthly planting guides show exactly what you can do in the garden from January through December. The skill sets go beyond the basics with tutorials on seed saving, worm bins, and more. This must-have book is for gardeners in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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