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To make her new house in Connecticut truly feel like home, Catie Marron decided to create a garden. But while she was familiar with landscape design, she had never grown anything. A dedicated reader with a lifelong passion for literature, Marron turned to the library of gardening books she’d collected to glean advice from a variety of writers on gardening and horticultural topics both grand and small.

Gardening is easy: Discover how you can grow a perfect vegetable garden, and enjoy fresh, organic food every day. You don’t have a green thumb. You’ve never managed to keep a houseplant alive for more than two weeks. You don’t have enough gardening space. Don’t stress about your lack of experience or previous gardening fails. Everyone has to start somewhere, and now you have the perfect opportunity to do.

Succulents are fascinating plants. They have the reputation of being resilient and easy to grow and maintain. But that isn’t always what everyone experiences when they first get one. While it is true that succulents are tough, they can also become delicate and hard to please. This can happen when they are watered the same way as non-drought-tolerant plants.

If you want to know how you can effectively grow more plants at home in a hydroponic setup, then keep reading...Are you worried that the extreme climatic conditions and lack of sufficient space will hinder your wish to grow your own vegetables at home? Well, fret not because there is a way through which you can generate enough food for your entire family. This process is known as hydroponic gardening, which is a type of soilless gardening. Hydroponics is a modern way of growing crops that helps to beat all the unfavourable conditions and grow plants in a controlled environment.

The grass doesn’t have to be greener on the other side with The Lawn Care Guide! Everyone knows that they want a green lawn. The trouble starts when you try to figure out what the best methods, tips, and tricks are to get it. It all seems very easy until you start asking yourself: To use or not to use weed killer? Chemical or organic fertilizer? Is your yard full-sun, full-shade, or somewhere in between? What’s the best way and height to mow your lawn? Do you have Kentucky blue, St. Augustine, or just plain crabgrass?

Are you looking for a step-by-step method for improving your gardening skills? Then keep reading.... Hydroponics is the method of growing plants without soil by supplying them with a constant nutrient solution. There are many powerful reasons for commercial food growers to use this method, but it is also now being used more frequently by the domestic gardener keen to produce a high yield in a small amount of space. Though it is seen primarily as a way of producing crops for the table, it is also a method that can be used for the production of ornamental plants.

Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries - on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators - this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification, and more.

From sowing seeds to deadheading flowers, growing your own potatoes to welcoming feathered friends into your own garden, discover the joy to be found in every moment of gardening by slowing down, observing nature and planning ahead for the seasons. Happiest when surrounded by plants, Ellen Mary is passionate advocate for the benefits of nature for well-being, spreading the word through The Plant Based Podcast and her regular talks.

Journalist and self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” Tamar Haspel is on a mission: to show us that raising or gathering our own food is not as hard as it’s often made out to be. When she and her husband move from Manhattan to two acres on Cape Cod, they decide to adopt a more active approach to their diet: raising chickens, growing tomatoes, even foraging for mushrooms and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that’s not about to stop them from trying…even if sometimes their reach exceeds their (often muddy) grasp.

Aquaponics is a major component in maintainable organic crop production, aquaculture, and water utilization. The fish squander is reused and utilized for plant development as opposed to tossing it in the sea. The water is recycled in a shut framework bringing down the utilization of this asset.

Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than 30 years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow readers and listeners to share in the experience of her extensive travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home again to New York City's Central Park.

Discover the many benefits of worm farming or what is also known as vermicomposting. You can get free fishing bait, use it as source of food for wild birds, fish, and chickens, or create a nutrient-rich potting soil that is a fun hobby while teaching you about the environment. You will see that getting started with worm farming is much easier than you think! Details on space requirements, type of worms to use, what to feed them and much, much, more are revealed in this informative audiobook.

Have you found yourself interested in growing your cannabis plants, but you had no idea where to start? Do you feel like you are over your head when you have started to look at all the products on the market today from hydroponics, grow lights, and tents? Do you have any idea of where you are going to put your grow area and canopy, yet you have no idea the steps in how to achieve the tastiest and dense buds with the highest yield?

50 Things to Know About Square Food Gardening by Rochel Rieb Maday offers an approach to an easier gardening experience with fabulous results. Most books on gardening teaches you how to garden in traditional rows, but with square foot gardening, you can produce more with less space. Discover how to construct a square foot gardening plot and all the benefits that this method of gardening offers.

In search of a quieter, simpler life, style icon and longtime New Yorker Amanda Brooks moved with her family in 2012 from New York City to her husband's farm in England. Originally intended to be a yearlong creative sabbatical, Brooks's relocation became permanent as she discovered newfound personal and professional freedom, told here through a year's changing seasons. Creatively inspiring, warm and witty, and brimming with delicious recipes and entertaining how-tos, Farm from Home is a chronicle of the joys and challenges of a more focused way of living.

Welcome to the world of tomato gardening. There’s nothing as sweet and good as a sun-warmed tomato fresh from the garden on a hot summer afternoon. It’s no wonder that tomatoes are the most popular vegetable in America (though botanically, tomatoes are a fruit). Cordell’s audiobook walks you through the steps in raising tomatoes – through starting tomato seeds, planting (and tricks for planting tomatoes early), and staking and caging tomatoes.

Are you tired of failing at your Florida gardening? Are stink bugs puncturing your tomatoes and nematodes gnawing your eggplants? Is the sand eating your compost like an RV swallows gas? Fear not! You can grow buckets upon buckets of food in Florida - and this book gives you the secrets to pulling it off year after year. Lots more food - for a lot less work!

Street Farm is the inspirational account of residents in the notorious Low Track in Vancouver, British Columbia, one of the worst urban slums in North America, who joined together to create an urban farm as a means of addressing the chronic problems in their neighborhood. It is a story of recovery, of land and food, of people, and of the power of farming and nourishing others as a way to heal our world and ourselves.

In this introduction to sustainable landscaping practices, Linda Chalker-Scott addresses the most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. The Informed Gardener is based on basic and applied research from university faculty and landscape professionals. This book will be of interest to landscape architects, nursery and landscape professionals, urban foresters, arborists, certified professional horticulturists, and home gardeners.

Unlock the secrets of success with Paul Jamison, celebrated host of the Green Industry Podcast, in "How to Build a Thriving Lawn Care Business." This guide distills years of industry expertise into actionable strategies that will transform your operation and skyrocket your profits.