Gourds in Your Garden

Gourds in Your Garden

Author: Ginger Summit

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2001-06

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780806926995

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Whether you're a seasoned gardener enchanted with their lush vines and unusually shaped fruit or a crafter in search of the perfect gourd for a specific project, this easy-to-use primer takes the mystery out of growing gourds. Largely ignored by most gardening books, gourd plants require specific attention to produce healthy vines and satisfactory fruit. Learn how to: * Identify popular gourd shapes * Plan and cultivate your garden * Grow, train, and harvest a bountiful crop * Control pests and disease with natural remedies * Prepare your gourds for use-in recipes and art projects. Lists of suppliers, a growing calendar, and space for notes on your own garden conditions make this the complete gourd sourcebook. A delight to read as well as a lasting reference, this long overdue guide to the adventures of growing one of Nature's greatest gifts is an essential addition to any gardener's library.


Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces

Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces

Author: Susan Morrison

Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1610598245

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Vertical gardening is the latest, most talked about trend in gardening. Outdoor living walls planted with anything from succulents to vegetables, are springing up in urban and suburban areas and even commercial spaces. Home gardeners are now ready to take advantage of the vertical spaces in their own gardens. Ornamental gardeners searching for help with narrow planting beds or choosing the appropriate trellis, small space gardeners in need of specific solutions, edible gardeners interested in creative ways to mix edibles with ornamentals will find the help they need. Garden Up! offers inspiration and how-to information for enhancing any outdoor space. Authors Susan Lee Morrison, and Rebecca Sweet offer advice on plant selection across the country, and include easy do-it-yourself projects than add unique touches to any garden. This innovative book was named to the Top 10 Home & Garden list for Amazon's Best Books of 2011!


Seed to Seed

Seed to Seed

Author: Suzanne Ashworth

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0988474905

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A complete seed-saving guide of 160 vegetables, including detailed info on each vegetable.


The Gourd Book

The Gourd Book

Author: Charles B. Heiser

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2016-02-03

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0806155671

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Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which has been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.


The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener

Author: Niki Jabbour

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2011-12-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1603427856

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Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.


Glorious Gourd Decorating

Glorious Gourd Decorating

Author: Mickey Baskett

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780806969459

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Transform simple garden gourds into beautiful and functional decorative objects. Follow the guides to growing, selecting, cleaning, and preparing your gourds. Learn about different methods to decorate the gourds.


Grandma and the Great Gourd

Grandma and the Great Gourd

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Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1596433787

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On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.


Easy Pumpkin Carving

Easy Pumpkin Carving

Author: Colleen Dorsey

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1607654946

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Create the best jack-o-lantern on the block with this handy guide. Get tips and tricks for spooktacular pumpkin carving, with innovative techniques, inspirational color photos, and 12 ready-to-use carving patterns.


The Compleat Squash

The Compleat Squash

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Publisher: Artisan Books

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781579652517

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Detailed instructions on how to plant, cultivate, harvest, and propagate a variety of pumpkin, squash, and ornamental gourd varieties are accompanied by more than 150 glorious color photographs, horticultural tips, and delicious recipes.


Gourd Pyrography

Gourd Pyrography

Author: Jim Widess

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781402745027

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A guide to gourd pyrography--using heat to create works of gourd art--that discusses gourd prep and work basics, provides step-by-step instructions for several designs and techniques, and presents secrets from fifty artists.