Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) [Paperback]
July 22, 2010 by admin
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The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this [...]
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long [Paperback]
July 19, 2010 by admin
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From Publishers Weekly
From first sentence to last, Coleman’s ( The New Organic Gardener ) book is a delight–an earnest guide written with an impish sense of humor. It will refresh anyone who wants to get the most from a vegetable garden yet doesn’t want to devote too [...]
Organic Gardening For Dummies [Paperback]
July 16, 2010 by admin
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Organic Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows readers the way to ensure a healthy harvest from their environmentally friendly garden. It covers information on the newest and safest natural fertilizers and pest control methods, composting, cultivation without chemicals, and how to battle plant diseases. It also has information on updated equipment and resources. [...]
The Kitchen Garden Grower’s Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia [Paperback]
July 13, 2010 by admin
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A veritable encyclopedia and easy how-to guide on all that is natural and necessary in the world of gardening and small fruit, vegetable, and herb preparation, in The Kitchen Garden Grower’s Guide: A practical vegetable and herb garden encyclopedia, Stephen Albert leaves no stone—collard green, leek, or potato—unearthed in this absolutely amazing field [...]
Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible Plants the Natural Way [Paperback]
July 7, 2010 by admin
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This book shows you how to have a healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and disease in your garden. You’ll get nuts and bolts information on companion planting and the use of beneficial insects.
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The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Paperback)
May 14, 2010 by admin
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Review
When does gardening become farming? When are you no longer having dinner parties and running a restaurant instead? For those who are ready to graduate beyond coffee-can retail, the incomparable Eliot Coleman is back with THE WINTER HARVEST HANDBOOK: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated [...]
Organic Gardening For Dummies (Paperback)
May 11, 2010 by admin
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Organic Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows readers the way to ensure a healthy harvest from their environmentally friendly garden. It covers information on the newest and safest natural fertilizers and pest control methods, composting, cultivation without chemicals, and how to battle plant diseases. It also has information on updated equipment and resources. [...]
Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener [Paperback]
May 8, 2010 by admin
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Rodale’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening has been the go-to resource for gardeners for more than 50 years—and the best tool novices can buy to start applying organic methods to their fruit and vegetable crops, herbs, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, and lawns. This thoroughly revised and updated version highlights new organic pest [...]
All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! (Paperback)
May 5, 2010 by admin
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Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening? Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it’s even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don’t have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you’ll be growing above [...]
Monterey Sluggo Snail & Slug Control For Organic Gardening – 2.5 lb Shaker Bottle #LG6500
February 23, 2010 by admin
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The only snail slug control product not based on metaldehyde. Organic breaks down in the soil into fertilzer. Can be used around domestic animals and wildlife. Labeled for use in vegetable gardens. 1 lb. covers 1000 sq. ft. No. LG6515: 1 lb. shaker can
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