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By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers a model that anyone can follow. Inspired by examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape - one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. The Living Landscape is your roadmap to a richer,...
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Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy, relaxation and accomplishment
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"Naturalistic gardens increase biodiversity, provide refuge for wildlife, and are an essential keystone for reconnecting the human world to the natural one. Knowing how to create a lush, thriving, and ecologically vibrant landscape might seem intimidating and out of reach, but horticulturist Kelly Norris and New Naturalism are here to help you design and plant a stunning oasis of nature-inspired plantings that thrive."--Back cover
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Essential Perennials helps you decide exactly which plants will bring you the beauty you want and will thrive in the conditions you can provide. Trusted garden experts Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher focus on what every gardener needs to know. For each plant you'll find flower color, season of bloom, foliage characteristics, height and width, light requirements, and hardiness and heat sensitivity. You'll also learn cultural tips, the...
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Would you like to grow a vegetable and fruit garden but feel like it just takes way too long? Well, the amazing thing is, it doesn't have to. Instead, you can plant some faster-growing veggies and fruit, plus have some great fresh green food options to choose from. These vegetables and fruit can produce a harvest in as little as four weeks, and they give your family and friend fresh greens to eat as you wait for the abundant harvest at the end of...
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Put that spare PVC pipe to work with more than 50 inventive, step-by-step projects that yield tough and durable storage, furniture, gardening, toys, and much more, with The PVC Pipe Book.
With a few simple fittings, common home-improvement-store PVC pipe can be treated much like building blocks. Learn to engineer it in new ways for DIY projects that prove useful indoors and outside.
Whether you're a homeowner, gardener, homesteader, prepper, or...
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"The Pallet Book is an inspiring and ingenious project-oriented book for the home DIY enthusiast! Author Chris Peterson presents everything the enterprising handyperson needs to know to reclaim and reuse pallets in innovative, useful ways. Just some of the projects included are: A handy vertical planter; Coffee table; Spice rack; Serving tray; Compost bin; Dog house; Bookshelves; Wine bottle rack; Side table; Adirondack chair. Some projects, like...
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"Upcycle that unwanted wood! The New Pallet Book updates a unique woodworking book with 25+ new ways to take a stack of pallets and put them to use. Join home improvement author Chris Peterson for a complete guide to deconstructing and repurposing pallets. This edition, with tons of new content and more than 50 projects and ideas, features everything from dead-simple builds like pathway pavers and a mug holder to more challenging projects like a recycling...
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Home gardening the natural way.
Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience of organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden.
Taking care of the soil life and fertility provides plants with what they need to thrive. This is grounded in the latest scientific research on soil health, ecological...
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Enjoy bushels of crispy apples and baskets of juicy blueberries from your own backyard. Authors Lewis Hill and Leonard Perry provide everything you need to know to successfully grow delicious organic fruit at home, from choosing the best varieties for your area to planting, pruning, and harvesting a bountiful crop. With tips on cultivating strawberries, raspberries, grapes, pears, peaches, and more, this essential reference guide will inspire year...
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PVC pipe is cheap, versatile, durable and simple to work with. Homesteader Charles Sanders has come up with 101 projects that can be, constructed from PVC piping, including a small-scale greenhouse, hanging planters, livestock or pet feeders, gutter cleaners, and a wide range of containers, holders, and racks for just about anything. With dozens of different types of fittings and couplings, almost any PVC project is a snap. Enterprising homesteaders...
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Enjoying fruit trees in the landscape--Selecting the right site--Planting and early care--Apples--Pears--Sweet cherries--Tart cherries--Apricots, plums, apriums and plouts--Peaches and nectarines--Nutrition and fertilizers--Pruning basics--Growing fruit trees in containers....
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This comprehensive illustrated guide to the powerful Chinese art of Feng Shui covers homes, gardens and offices. A history of the origins and development is followed by practical advice on clearing clutter and improving energy flows Over 800 photographs, floor plans and diagrams illustrate structural and design ideas for health, wealth and happiness.
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