Midwest Cottage Gardening

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Create your own beautiful cottage garden. This practical book offers advice to help midwestern gardeners--whether novices or old pros--achieve beautiful, organic gardens drawing on age-old cottage garden traditions. Readers will learn how to plan and plant a bountiful cottage garden with ecology in mind, using a lively mixture of perennials, annuals, fruiting trees and shrubs, vegetables, and herbs. Fran Manos provides the keys to successful gardening with a comb... More >>

Awakening the Contemplative Spirit: Writing, Gardening, and the Inner Life

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In Awakening the Contemplative Spirit, Arthur Versluis explores the ways that writing and the contemplative life intertwine with one another, for in his view, writing is both preparation for and a natural expression of the contemplative life. In Awakening the Contemplative Spirit, we explore the contemplative life that can be found anywhere that there is a contemplative spirit that thrives in solitude and in the beauty of nature.... More >>

Container Gardening for Health: The 12 Most Important Fruits and Vegetables for your Organic Garden

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Container Gardening for Health is your complete guide to growing the twelve fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residues according to USDA testing. From Apples and Celery to Strawberries and Spinach, pick a few of your favorites from the list. Make a big difference in your family's pesticide exposure with a small organic garden. "After talking with other parents, I realized we all wanted an inexpensive way to feed our children more foods with less pesti... More >>

Gardening with Heirloom Seeds: Tried-and-True Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for a New Generation

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Heirloom seeds are more than the promise of next summer's crookneck squash or jewel-colored zinnias. They're living antiques handed down from one generation to the next, a rich inheritance of flavor and beauty from long ago and, often, far away. They are sometimes better adapted to pests and harsh conditions than many modern varieties and often simply smell or taste better. Gardening with Heirloom Seeds serves as a resource for gardeners, cooks, and plant lovers of ... More >>

Gardening with the Goddess: Creating Gardens of Spirit and Magick

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For organic gardeners, for magickal practitioners, for people walking in the Goddess tradition, this book blends earth-friendly approaches with sound metaphysical methods for powerful and meaningful results. In the pages of Gardening with the Goddess you will find ideas about: -Land blessings and turning any garden into a sacred space.
-How to use companion planting effectively with any Goddess garden.
-Crystal and moon gardening methods.
-Creating ... More >>

Flower Gardening Secrets: Sensible Advice from Seasoned Gardeners

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The Old Farmer's Almanac has entertained and educated its readers with tried-and-true gardening tips for more than 200 years. Flower Gardening Secrets brings together the best of that material for backyard gardeners.... More >>

Month-by-month Gardening In Georgia

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Do I prune my hydrangea in the fall or do I wait until early spring?
When is it safe to put out tomatoes?
Can I divide iris now? If you have ever asked yourself questions like these, Month-by-Month Gardening in Georgia is for you. Gardening is a journey, not a destination. The day-by-day gardening experiences - planting a few onion sets in the first warm afternoon of spring… the surprises - a purple crocus before the snow has even gone … the satisfaction... More >>

The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook: Easy Organic Vegetables and More Money in Your Pocket

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There’s never been a better time to grow your own food as we face the converging challenges of the financial crisis, climate change, water shortages, peak oil, and 6.5 billion people worldwide competing for a limited amount of food.Many gardening books are so technical that they are intimidating to the beginning gardener. This book shows how easy gardening can be while providing tips and techniques to ensure success. Whether you live in the country, the city, or t... More >>

Fun With Gardening : 50 Great Projects Kids Can Plant Themselves

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By finding out about gardening, children help things grow and watch life develop. Kids will learn how to help the plants become big and strong and how to protect them from the weather and disease.... More >>

Gardening with Hardy Geraniums

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Hardy geraniums were the first plants to shrug off the rigours of her coastal climate and grow in Birgitte Husted Bendtsen's garden every bit as well as they did in the fertile, sheltered plots further east in Denmark. Add to this their tolerance of dogs and children, resistance to pests and diseases, interesting foliage, and delightful flowers in a wide range of colours, and it is little surprise that Birgitte developed an insatiable passion for them. In this book,... More >>

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