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Seed to Table focuses on how to feed your family with nutritious foods from your own outdoor, home and/or kitchen garden. Whether you live in a city or in the country, this book gives you tools on effective growing techniques, seed starting methods, and garden maintenance. Organic gardening for every individual style! Have fun while you create your own gardening system whether it be for a container garden or a kitchen garden. Try out big and small...
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"Lana Lewis is brewing up new concoctions at Perkatory, a popular caf� in Devil's Beach, when she decides she wants to try her hand at growing her own coffee. She secures a gardening plot in the community garden, thanks to her father and the garden's owner, Darla. Darla's list of rules is long, but that doesn't stop someone from leaving Jack Daggett's body amongst the gardening plots. Jack, an environmental activist, had been banned from the garden...
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Howard Garrett uses his years of experience as an organic gardening expert to give you clear-cut, step-by-step instructions for growing flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, fruits, vegetables, and grasses the natural way. Discover how easy it is to grow healthy, beautiful plants without the risk to your family, pets, and the environment.
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This bestselling guide to growing a wide range of vegetables organically includes:
● the basics — how to plan your garden and prepare the soil, make compost, develop a planting guide, propagate, and sow and germinate seeds
● a comprehensive, A—Z guide to growing over 115 vegetables including Asian greens and unusual varieties
● growing Australian bush food, as well as a wide range of exotic herbs and spices
● growing mushrooms, plus...
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Jonathan Sturm's "...blog is unusual in that, although chockablock with his opinions, it's not overwhelmingly about him. Instead, his focus is on ideas. And what a range of interests he has - from Tasmania's electoral system to food, from software to building a house of steel." So said ABC Radio's Richard Aedy in 2002. So when Jonathan finally fulfilled his promise of finishing his second book on gardening, you might expect it to be a little different...
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Tomaten begeistern Groß und Klein mit ihrer großen Vielfalt an Formen, Farben und Ge-schmacksrichtungen. Sie sind voller gesunder Inhaltsstoffe und noch dazu vielseitig verwertbar. Nicht umsonst sind die paradiesischen Früchte, auch Paradeiser genannt, so beliebt. In den letzten Jahren sind Tomaten zum Top- Gemüse avanciert und werden im Garten genauso gerne angebaut wie im Topf auf dem Balkon. Ältere, aber auch manch neuere Sorten sind für...
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A step by step guide and building instruction book for the DIY farmer and homesteddar, includes detailed drawings and plans for transforming a basic pen into several uses including the pigtiller, pasture raised egg layer, broiler, turkey, goat, sheep, and rabbitat. A handy dog kennel and cold frame makes this one of the most versatile pieces of equipment on your homestead. Other low tech solutions include pallet construction, verticle growing sling...
8) Carnations
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Carnation is regarded as one of the most important cut flower all over the world and a very much preferable crop to be grown commercially in terms of fetching appreciable monetary returns. There are many suggestions related to meaning of the word Carnation. Some scholars propose that the name of the flower is derived from the word "corone" meaning flower garlands while others suggest that it is derived from the word "carnis" meaning flesh, which refers...
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A rich source of chemical facts, theories, and processes, this two-volume series treats the entire subject of organic chemistry. It has served for decades as a reference for chemists in industry and education as well as a classroom text for students with a year or more of experience in organic chemistry. Volume One provides thorough coverage of aliphatic compounds, devoting 500 pages to the physical properties and various methods of synthetic preparation...
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Companion planting
Companion planting is the art of growing plants together that help each other grow. Through reading this book, you will learn everything you need to know to begin companion planting!
Not only will you discover what plants you should grow, you'll also find out how to create the right garden, choose the right soil, compost, care for your garden, and much more!
Companion planting is a simple, yet super effective way...
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This handy edition of Backyard Pharmacy helps you choose and cultivate the most useful and common medicinal plants that you can grow yourself either indoors or outside. Author Elizabeth Millard shares her deep knowledge of what to add to your garden to grow your own medicine cabinet and enhance your health.
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Garden like Mother Nature, with an organic system that's good for plants and good for people.
Say good-bye to backaches and weed problems! Lee Reich's organic Weedless Gardening eschews the traditional yearly digging up and working over of the soil. It's is an easy-to-follow, low-impact approach to planting and maintaining a flower garden, a vegetable patch, trees, and shrubs naturally.
"If you love to knock yourself out digging beds,...
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WARNING: This book may tickle your funny bone.
This practical guide to gardening will help you think organically and sustainably about self-sufficiency. You will learn to do many fun things you never thought possible.
+New techniques and tips
+How to grow fruits and veggies
+Solar energy systems and how to choose wisely
+Seeds and seedlings
+Vermiculture (worms)
+Composting tips and techniques
+Container gardening
+Succulents-beautiful,...
14) Green Oasis in Concrete Jungle: The Ultimate Guide to Eco-Friendly Urban Gardening: Transform You
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Discover the Magic of Urban Gardening and Transform Your Urban Space into a Thriving Green Paradise!In the heart of bustling cities, amidst the cacophony of daily life, lies the potential for a serene, green escape. "Green Oasis in Concrete Jungle" is not just a book; it's your passport to creating that escape right in your urban space. Whether you have a sprawling balcony, a tiny patio, or just a windowsill, this guide will show you how to cultivate...
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The booklet, 'Moringa, the Drumstick Tree' is an overview of multipurpose tree, Moringa oleifera, commonly known as the drumstick tree. It is a highly useful tree of Indian subcontinent origin. In this booklet, various culinary, medicinal and commercial uses of moringa plant is dealt in detail.
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ORGANIC GARDENING
Today, just about every fruit or vegetable you buy at the supermarket has been grown with the use of pesticides and chemicals.
If you want to make an organic food choice, this can cost you a fortune and can also be hard to find.
Luckily, you can easily grow your own organic produce from your very own backyard!
This book will take you step by step through how to grow a range of organic plants.
You'll soon learn about soil type,...
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This small book is about 'Spinach Herbs' and it deals with mainly four types of edible herbaceous plants; these are Spinach (Spinacia oleracea), Malabar Spinach (Basella spp.), New Zealand Spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides) and Mustard Spinach(Brassica rapa perviridis). Food value and nutritive value of spinach herbs are very high. There are very few vegetable greens which equal the nutritive value of spinach herbs. Spinach herbs are highly nutritious...
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Chinese Cabbages are a group of nutrient-dense Cruciferous vegetables. Some recent scientific researches conducted at the William Paterson University, New Jersey concluded that Cruciferous vegetables and dark leafy greens are the most nutrient-dense, plant-based foods available today. Among 47 nutritious foods studied, Chinese cabbages are the second-most nutrient-rich food, only after watercress. This small book of 100 pages explains in detail growing...
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Unleash the Green Thumb Magic: Elevate Your Gardening Game! Are you tired of wilted plants and lackluster gardens? Discover the secrets to cultivating a vibrant and thriving green paradise in "Green Thumb Magic: Mastering Gardening & Horticulture." This transformative guide is designed to address the pain points of both novice gardeners and seasoned horticulturists, providing a roadmap to turn your outdoor space into a lush haven. About This Book:...
20) Urban Homesteading: Introduction to Organic Food, Gardening and Sustainable Living in Urban Homes
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Urban Pioneers and Hipsters lend me your ears! Because when it comes to converting your urban backyard into a beautiful garden this book has a lot to say on the matter. Taking you from urban blight to urban delight in just a few chapters this book outlines how you can take even the smallest of urban space and turn it into a beautiful and productive Garden that your whole neighborhood can enjoy!
With a heavy emphasis on networking and community involvement...
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