The Global Gardener
Author: Michael Scott
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1291300651
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The Resilient Gardener
Author: Carol Deppe
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 160358031X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields climatology, ecology, anthropology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and health science. In The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends these principles with detailed information about growing and using five keystone crops that are especially important for anyone seeking greater self-reliance: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.
The New American Landscape
Author: Thomas Christopher
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2011-04-20
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1604691867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGardeners are the front line of defense in our struggle to tackle the problems of global warming, loss of habitat, water shortages, and shrinking biodiversity. In The New American Landscape, author and editor Thomas Christopher brings together the best thinkers on the topic of gardening sustainably, and asks them to describe the future of the sustainable landscape. The discussion unfolds from there, and what results is a collective vision as eloquent as it is diverse. The New American Landscape offers designers a roadmap to a beautiful garden that improves, not degrades the environment. It’s a provocative manifesto about the important role gardens play in creating a more sustainable future that no professional garden designer can afford to miss. John Greenlee and Neil Diboll on the new American meadow garden Rick Darke on balancing natives and exotics in the garden Doug Tallamy on landscapes that welcome wildlife Eric Toensmeier on the sustainable edible garden David Wolfe on gardening sustainable with a changing climate Elaine Ingham on managing soil health David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth on sustainable pest solutions Ed Snodgrass and Linda McIntyre on green roofs in the sustainable residential landscape Thomas Christopher on waterwise gardens Toby Hemenway on whole system garden design The Sustainable Site Initiative on the managing the home landscape as a sustainable site
The Market Gardener
Author: Jean-Martin Fortier
Publisher: New Society Publisher
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1550925555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think. Growing on just 1.5 acres, Jean-Martin and Maude-Helene feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands. The secret of their success is the low-tech, high-yield production methods they've developed by focusing on growing better rather than growing bigger, making their operation more lucrative and viable in the process. The Market Gardener is a compendium of proven horticultural techniques and innovative growing methods. This complete guide is packed with practical information on: Setting-up a micro-farm by designing biologically intensive cropping systems, all with negligible capital outlay; Farming without a tractor and minimizing fossil fuel inputs through the use of the best hand tools, appropriate machinery and minimum tillage practices; Growing mixed vegetables systematically with attention to weed and pest management, crop yields, harvest periods and pricing approaches. Inspired by the French intensive tradition of maraichage and by iconic American vegetable grower Eliot Coleman, author and farmer Jean-Martin shows by example how to start a market garden and make it both very productive and profitable.
The Wastewater Gardener
Author: Mark Nelson
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780907791522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Nelson, PhD, has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 experiment for two years in 1991-1993, Nelson learned fi rst hand how essential the proper use of human waste is to the health of the planet. This realization, combined with his lifelong love aff air with constructed wetlands, led to the development of Wastewater Gardens, an ecological way to treat human waste and preserve water quality.
The Education Of A Gardener
Author: Russell Page
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2007-07-03
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781590172315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRussell 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.
The Decadent Gardener
Author: Medlar Lucan
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781873982822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the role in gardening played by torture, eroticism, blasphemy, the grotesque, narcotics, the artificial, and many other subjects dear to the decadent's heart.
Grow Now
Author: Emily Murphy
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2022-02
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1643260472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHomeowners are looking for actionable ways to help conserve the environment, and this hopeful, heartfelt guide offers them specific guidance on how to do so in their own home gardens.
How to be a Gardener
Author: Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 056353740X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to be a Gardener Book One, available at long last in paperback, is the fastest-selling gardening book of all time with sales in excess of 600,000 copies. In How to be a Gardener Book One, Alan Titchmarsh draws on his knowledge and passion for gardening, and his many years of experience, to give you a comprehensive guide that explores every aspect of your garden and how it works. In this, the first of two volumes, Alan starts with the basics that every gardener needs to know. He includes information on how plants work and what they need to survive, as well as advice on where to begin if youre a first-time gardener. Released to coincide with How to be a Gardener Revisited, a reversioned series of HTBAG 1 & 2 featuring new footage with Alan Titchmarsh in January 2005. In setting out the basic gardening principles and explaining the hows and whys, Alan gives the novice confidence and increases the skills and understanding of more experienced gardeners, too.
The Gardeners' Book
Author: Diana Craig
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781843179573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
