Herbal Health: Herbal Remedies for Common Ailments (The Home Herbalist Series)

Little, Brenda

Medical Books

Lothian Pub. Co

Herbal Teas (The Home Herbalist Series)

Companion Planting

New Holland Publishers, Ltd.

This practical and informative guide for anyone wanting to learn all there is to know about organic methods for growing food includes step-by-step instructions for caring for your organic garden, as well as illustrations, charts, and tables on topics such as watering techniques, proper root depth for vegetables, and tips for mulching with a non-mulching mower. This comprehensive, lively, and detailed text holds the answer to virtually every question the budding organic gardener might have.

The Practical Organic Gardener

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Silverleaf Press

For the prospective vegetable gardener who lacks the know-how or space, this fully illustrated handbook explains how anyone can raise a bumper crop—including clear and complete instructions on how to plan, plant, and care for everything from a container garden on an apartment balcony to a mini-farm in a large backyard. This encyclopedic guide discusses what and how much to grow and when and how to harvest each vegetable, and supplies all the detailed information needed to raise spectacular crops of everything from artichokes to zucchini, including a special section on herbs. Step-by-step instructions on the correct and safe ways to freeze, bottle, dry, and store harvested vegetables are also included.

The Encyclopedia of Vegetable Gardening

This practical guide gives instructions on all things herbs-and-spices—from cultivating and drying to proper storage—and additionally provides a dictionary with descriptions, illustrations, and uses for more than 130 herbs and spices. Recipes and cooking advice are complemented by tips for using herbs and spices medicinally and cosmetically. Sized for maximum ease of use, this sourcebook is a necessity for anyone wanting to add zest and seasoning to both their meals and lives.

The Complete Book of Herbs & Spices

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

With a little preparation and a few minutes a day, new or experienced gardeners can have a colorful flower garden and a bounty of vegetables with this fun and handy manual. Readers interested in a successful flower garden learn how to choose low-care perennials and annuals as well as develop blueprints, analyze the soil, and choose the right equipment. A productive vegetable garden can be achieved with low-care, high-yield vegetables as well as efficiently mulching and fertilizing the soil and the effective control of pests and disease. Useful, easy-to-follow information on the basics of efficient gardening ensures that even the most harried gardener gets their planting off to the right start.

The 5-Minute Gardener: How to Plan, Create, and Sustain a Low-Maintenance Garden

Maintaining a colorful and productive garden is easy with the advice on how to change gardening ways and embrace green, organic techniques in this handy little book. This illustrated manual includes easy-to-follow information on such tasks as improving the soil, saving water, mulching, and creating green gardens as well as sections on how to best handle birds, rodents, and other visitors; how to attract the right insects; how to use the right sprays and traps; and how to best control diseases. In addition, special focus is given to water-saving techniques.

The Green Gardener: Working with Nature, Not Against It

Transforming a messy, tangled garden into a lush, productive retreat is easy with this simple yet thorough handbook. The basics of companion gardening can be easily integrated into one’s gardening style using the nurturing power of Mother Nature and taking fundamental principles into account. Not merely a seasonal occupation or hobby, companion planting is a natural way to restore balance to outdoor spaces. By planting certain plants in close proximity, each helps the others. Techniques such as increasing the essential oils and nutrients in plants, conditioning the soil, and attracting helpful insects are discussed, as are ways to reduce pests and diseases without the use of toxic pesticides.

Secrets of Companion Planting: Plants That Help, Plants That Hurt

In this age of increasing hostility towards chemical control of the food we eat, this book is the ideal guide to working with nature. Every tip in this book has worked for somebody - why it worked may be a mystery, but the result of a healthy crop is the greatest reward for a gardener.

Companion Planting In New Zealand

White Cloud Books

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