A comprehensive gardening reference book that provides the beginning or expert gardener--and all those in between--with everything he or she needs to know about raising over 350 edible and ornamental plants. Unique step-by-step instructions with over 150 line drawings make every part of the gardening process accessible and understandable. Here is the key to doing great things in the garden.

The Gardener's Home Companion

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Reilly, Ann

MacKey, Betty

Pleasant, Barbara

Rogers, Barbara-Radcliffe

Bilderback, Diane

Gardening & Landscape Design

Gramercy

The relationship between people and herbs has spanned the millennia―and what a relationship it has been! Herbs have been both our medicine and our food, while their fragrance and beauty have warmed our hearts and delighted our senses.They are nature’s pure and precious gifts to man. The Whole Herb is an easy-to-follow guide to the many uses of these wonderfully aromatic plants. The book begins by looking at the history and benefits of herbs, while subsequent chapters focus on their many uses, including herbs and health, herbs in the kitchen, herbs around the house, and herbs in the garden. What comes next is an A-to-Z reference profiling over fifty common herb varieties. Each entry provides information on the herb’s background, benefits, and uses, along with helpful buying guides, growing instructions, preservation methods, and safety information. Throughout, insets highlight important facts and techniques, helping you fully enjoy the herbal experience.

The Whole Herb: For Cooking, Crafts, Gardening, Health, and Other Joys of Life

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

Square One

Profiles over twenty-five lawn grasses, ornamental grasses, and groundcovers suitable for use in the Southern States, explaining how to fertilize, avoid pests and weeds, and design durable low-maintenance lawns

Southern Living Garden Guide: Lawns & Ground Covers

UNKNO

Beds and Borders (Southern Living Garden Guides) [Sep 01, 1998] Southern Living and Pleasant, Barbara

Beds and Borders (Southern Living Garden Guide)

Chaplin, Lois Trigg

Oxmoor House

Beginning gardeners have never had it so fun and simple. Easy Gardening Projects For All Seasons contains step-by-step instructions for 100 simple but entertaining projects that even first-time gardeners can complete with success. 50 line drawings.

Easy Garden Projects for All Seasons

Taylor Pub

Expert Barbara Pleasant shows you how to easily identify common garden diseases and then provides simple, inexpensive, organic treatments to heal your plants and prevent recurrence. The entry for each disease describes the organism that causes it, lists the host plants and U.S. regions where it is typically found, describes the signs to look for, tells you what to do right away, and explains how to prevent the disease in the future. The book even includes a crop-by-crop guide to what might be affecting your particular plants. You’ll quickly be enjoying a healthy, and thriving garden!

Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases, The

Storey Publishing, LLC.

Identifies common plant diseases and shares organic remedies that make use of the plants' own abilities to fight the disease

The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases: Earth-Safe Remedies

Storey Books

Barbara Pleasant shows you how to use all-natural methods to protect your garden from damaging insects. With clear illustrations to help you identify common harmful bugs and understand their behaviors, this book offers a variety of ingenious, environmentally friendly ways to protect your plants, such as introducing beneficial parasitic insects, using floating row covers, and creating your own organic pest repellents. You'll learn to work WITH nature instead of against it to keep your garden naturally free from harm.

The Gardener's Bug Book: Earth-Safe Insect Control

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Controlling Garden Weeds: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-171 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)

Addresses the problems common to warm-climate gardens, providing advice and techniques for selecting and maintaining suitable plants, making use of cooler seasons, and scheduling maintenance chores

Warm-Climate Gardening: Tips, Techniques, Plans, Projects for Humid or Dry Conditions

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