This paperback manual sets out effective strategies for working with, rather than against, nature. Illustrated in full-color showing exactly how to use a comprehensive range of chemical-free techniques, the book enables readers to create an outdoor environment that will not harm children, pets, or wildlife. The emphasis is on growing naturally better-tasting fruits and vegetables and cultivating healthy plants in healthy soil.

Organic Garden Book: Complete Guide to Growing

Science & Math

HAMILTON, Geoff

Technology

Random House Value Publishing

Quarto, 1987, Pp.288, The (English) Complete Guide To Growing Flowers, Fruit, And Vegetables Naturally

Organic Garden Book a Comp Gde

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Crown

"Gardeners' World" Cottage Garden

BBC Books

Provides information on building a small garden, discussing tools, getting rid of weeds, evaluating soil, erecting fences, and caring for hedges and lawns, building pools, and more

The First Time Garden

Arts & Photography

Bbc Pubns

Provides information on garden design, soil, lawn care, bulbs, biennials and annuals, vegetables, container gardening, and more

Gardening for the Beginners (Gardener's World)

Kurrein, Carol

This book offers a practical guide to a new style of gardening. In fact, it is not a new style but a return to traditional methods - found in gardens all over the world from medieval monasteries to Victorian kitchen gardens - when fruit, flowers and vegetables were planted in the same beds in a delightful and productive mix. Not only does this sort of garden look good and provide constant variety all year round, but it is ideally suited to small gardens as well as large. It attracts plenty of wildlife - especially birds and insects - which helps to keep pests under control, while the different species growing side by side make the most of the soil. Geoff Hamilton, BBC TV's popular gardening expert and the presenter of "The Ornamental Kitchen Garden" television series on which the book is based, tells you everything you need to know to create an ornamental kitchen garden from scratch, or to transform an existing garden. He explains, with the help of drawings, how to plan your garden with paths, beds, patio and garden pool. Using step-by-step photos and easy-to-follow drawings, he shows how to make all the essential components: brick and scree paths, arbours and pergolas, cold frames, cloches and compost bins, as well as how to lay lawns. He gives detailed descriptions of the decorative plants - perennials and annuals, bulbs and herbs, climbers, vegetables, ornamental trees and shrubs, fruit trees and bushes - some old favourties and some the latest varieties - which would be most suitable for this sort of garden, explaining how to cultivate them and to propagate further plants. A chapter on the seasons has colour photographs for the months of spring, summer and autumn illustrating many of the plants flowering or fruiting at the time, accompanied by month-by-month reminders of jobs to be done.

The Ornamental Kitchen Garden

Gardeners' World: Practical Gardening Course : The Complete Book of Gardening Techniques

Old Garden, New Gardener

Following on from "First Time Planting" and "First Time Garden", this is a guide, for the inexperienced gardener, through the difficult process of taking over an existing garden, especially one which has seen better days. The topics covered include stamping your own personality on a garden, weed-clearing, soil renovation, laying a new lawn, planting trees and renovating rock gardens, pools and ponds, and pergolas. The book assumes no knowledge of gardening and adopts a straightforward and practical approach. It contains a calendar of the gardening year, with explanations of what to do, and when.

Search, Gay

BBC CONSUMER PUBLISHING

The ornamental kitchen represents a return to traditional methods once found in gardens in many parts of the world, from medieval monasteries to Victorian kitchen-gardens, in which fruit, flowers and vegetables were planted in the same beds in an attractive and productive mix. This method is also kind to the environment and in tune with nature, and is suited to all sizes of garden. It attracts wildlife, thus helping to keep pests under control, and the different species growing side by side make the most of the soil. In this book Geoff Hamilton describes how to create a kitchen garden from scratch or to transform an existing garden. Using drawings and step-by-step photographs, he shows how to plan a garden with paths, beds, patio and pool, and how to incorporate components such as brick and scree paths, arbours and pergolas, cold frames, cloches and compost bins, and lawns. Detailed descriptions are included of various kinds of plants which are suitable for a kitchen garden, together with guidance on their cultivation, and the final chapter explains how to deal with pests, diseases and weeds without recourse to chemicals, and how to increase the productivity of the soil by using natural fertilizers.

The cottage-garden style has been part of British gardening for centuries. The first cottage gardeners had little time, space and money, and designed simple and practical settings for their homes which, in time, developed into more elaborate, and sometimes extravagant, gardens. In this book Geoff Hamilton looks to the superb old cottages of the past and adapts the more popular features to modern gardens. In building three cottage gardens from scratch at his home in Barnsdale, he sets out to simplify the practical problems of creating a natural rustic look and shows how to build new constructions such as arbours and bowers, arches, seats and boundaries to suit readers' budgets. A diverse selection of planting plans emphasizing colour schemes and perfume, with explanations of how to cultivate cottage-style plants, has also been included. Practical advice covers a variety of subjects such as herbaceous plants, roses, perennials and annuals, climbers, bulbs, containers, herbs, vegetables and fruit.

Cottage Gardens

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Organic Garden Book: Complete Guide to Growing

Organic Garden Book a Comp Gde

"Gardeners' World" Cottage Garden

The First Time Garden

Gardening for the Beginners (Gardener's World)

The Ornamental Kitchen Garden

Gardeners' World: Practical Gardening Course : The Complete Book of Gardening Techniques

Old Garden, New Gardener

The Ornamental Kitchen Garden

Cottage Gardens