Landscaping Basics For Dummies, Mini Edition

Landscaping Basics For Dummies, Mini Edition

Author: Philip Giroux

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 111804259X

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Create the yard you've always yearned for A beautiful landscape reflects well on your house, making it a welcome part of a neighborhood or native terrain. And it dramatically increases your home's value. Landscaping Basics For Dummies gets you started on turning the little patch of earth you call your own into a personal paradise. Open the book and find: Landscape designs for front, back, and side yards How to choose and plant the right trees for your landscape Choose and plant the right shrubs for your yard Tips for landscaping a shady area


Gardening Basics For Dummies

Gardening Basics For Dummies

Author: Steven A. Frowine

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-23

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9781118050620

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Plant the garden of your dreams! Even if you’ve never sowed a seed nor pulled a weed, Gardening Basics For Dummies contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise. This friendly and informative guide also covers all of the tools and additives available to make gardening easier. You’ll discover: Clear definitions and descriptions of the different types of plants Tips on choosing the type of garden you want How to create a garden plan Easy-to-follow instructions for soil preparation Advice on planting, growing and caring for annuals and perennials Step-by-step plans for organic and edible gardens Plans for butterfly and children's gardens Packed with helpful tips on controlling pests safely, managing weeds, and correcting common gardening problems, Gardening for Dummies turns your brown thumb green in a hurry.


Organic Gardening For Dummies, Mini Edition

Organic Gardening For Dummies, Mini Edition

Author: Ann Whitman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-12-28

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 1118042581

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Grow a bountiful garden without harming the environment Whether you're cultivating fruits and vegetables or growing beautiful flowers, this handy guide shows you how to work with nature, not against it, to create and maintain an organic garden your whole family will enjoy. Open the book and find: How to beat weeds at their own game Tips for keeping pests away without chemical pesticides Ways to buy or make compost and build healthy soil How to work with, not against, your soil


Landscape Quilts

Landscape Quilts

Author: Nancy Zieman

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780848724832

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Making gorgeous landscape quilts is easy with these step-by-step instructions.


Watercolor Color

Watercolor Color

Author: Ray Smith

Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789432926

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Twelve art projects with step-by-step instructions and advice on materials, subjects, and methods.


Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies

Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies

Author: Bonnie Jo Manion

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1118547543

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Maintain a beautiful garden with chickens? Easy. Chickens are great gardening assistants, with lots of benefits for a home garden and landscape—from soil-building to managing pests and weeds. Home gardens can be great chicken habitats if designed well, and Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies provides a plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a gorgeous chicken-friendly landscape that helps the chickens and the garden thrive. Gardening with Free-Range Chicken For Dummies offers guidance and step-by-step instructions for designing and implementing a host of different chicken garden plans. Plus, you'll get detailed information on the best plants and landscaping materials for your chicken garden (and the ones to avoid), seasonal considerations, attractive fencing options, predator and pest control, and much more. An excellent supplement to Raising Chickens For Dummies and Building Chicken Coops For Dummies A plain-English guide with step-by-step guidance for creating a chicken garden Advice on how to manage chickens while maintaining a beautiful garden If you're looking for step-by-step advice on building a chicken garden, Gardening with Free-Range Chickens For Dummies has you covered.


Fairy Gardening

Fairy Gardening

Author: Julie Bawden-Davis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 162636186X

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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 quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turner provide you with step-by-step instructions for creating a magical garden that will attract Thumbelina herself! Learn how to design, plant, accessorize, and care for your very own small corner of the world by following seven simple steps, including choosing the perfect container, planting luxurious pint-sized plants, decorating with properly scaled accessories, and telling a story through the delicate fairies you choose to inhabit your magical wonderland. Included are full-color photographs showcasing various types of fairy gardens and accessories, which are sure to inspire the designer in you! And best of all, these perennial gardens are perfect for the busy gardener, as they require less than ten minutes per week to maintain—this could be your new favorite hobby! For the inner child in us all, Fairy Gardening is sure to enchant both the novice and the experienced gardener who wishes to stir up Lilliputian flights of fancy.


Terrarium Craft

Terrarium Craft

Author: Amy Bryant Aiello

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2011-04-25

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1604693096

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A terrarium is nothing less than a miniature world—one that you can create yourself. It might be a tiny rainforest, with lush foliage and bright tropical flowers. Or a desert, with strange succulents planted among colorful stones. Or a Victorian fernery. Or a minimalist composition with a single, perfect plant. Or it might not contain any plants at all. It might be made with crystals, feathers, bones, seashells, bits of wood, porcelain trinkets—anything that catches your fancy and helps create a mood or look. Whatever they contain, terrariums are the ultimate in modern, affordable, easy-care décor. Terrarium Craft features fifty original designs that you can re-create or use as inspiration for your own design. Each entry comes with clear step-by-step directions on how to assemble and care for your terrarium. You’ll also find helpful information about selecting a container, using appropriate materials, choosing the right plants, and maintaining your terrarium. (Hint: It’s easy! In fact, many terrariums are self-sustaining, requiring no maintenance whatsoever!)


Veg in One Bed

Veg in One Bed

Author: Huw Richards

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1465499032

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Gardening YouTube sensation Huw Richards shows how to inexpensively grow year-round vegetables from just one raised bed. Keyed to a temperate coastal climate but adaptable to variations in temperature and rainfall, Huw's clear, practical advice will help you produce a bountiful harvest with minimal space and effort. In just one raised bed, green thumb wunderkind Huw Richards shows you how to grow vegetables easily, organically, abundantly, and inexpensively so you have something to harvest every month of the year. Month by month, discover what you need to do and how to do it. Try it in your yard, a small garden, or even on a roof terrace. Everything is explained in clear, photographed steps: building your bed, growing from seed, planting, feeding, and harvesting. Huw shows how to guarantee early success by starting off young plants on a windowsill. He suggests what to grow in each part of the bed and provides alternative vegetables to swap in or out depending on what you like eating. No-dig gardening methods remove most of the back-breaking work, too. Veg in One Bed goes beyond the inspiring demonstrations on his YouTube channel Huw's Nursery. In this book, he organizes all of his ideas and suggestions into a blueprint for growing your own vegetables month by month. Very little growing experience? Only a small space? No matter--with Veg in One Bed, you can still eat food you have grown throughout the year.


How to Grow More Vegetables, Ninth Edition

How to Grow More Vegetables, Ninth Edition

Author: John Jeavons

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0399579192

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The world's leading resource on biointensive, sustainable, high-yield organic gardening is thoroughly updated throughout, with new sections on using 12 percent less water and increasing compost power. Long before it was a trend, How to Grow More Vegetables brought backyard ecosystems to life for the home gardener by demonstrating sustainable growing methods for spectacular organic produce on a small but intensive scale. How to Grow More Vegetables has become the go-to reference for food growers at every level, whether home gardeners dedicated to nurturing backyard edibles with minimal water in maximum harmony with nature's cycles, or a small-scale commercial producer interested in optimizing soil fertility and increasing plant productivity. In the ninth edition, author John Jeavons has revised and updated each chapter, including new sections on using less water and increasing compost power.