Specialised gardening methods Books
Floris Books Biodynamic Farming and Gardening: Renewal and
Book SynopsisWhile there have been numerous developments and advances in biodynamic agriculture methods since Ehrenfried Pfeiffer first introduced readers to its foundational principles and practices, the key elements remain. Even though this book was originally published in 1938, it remains a foundational text for biodynamic farmers and gardeners. Pfeiffer outlines the basic practices for successfully operating a biodynamic farm, including the principles behind each technique and practice. These methods are backed up by scientific research and data, as well as his own experience as a farmer and researcher, describing what works and what doesn't. Pfeiffer covers soil qualities, making compost, crop rotation, best planting practices, using biodynamic preparations and sprays, and much more -- all with the goal of growing the highest-quality foods by using sustainable methods, working with nature and caring for the earth. A classic resource for all biodynamic farmers and gardeners.
£18.00
Familius LLC Shallow-Pit Garden Composting: The Easy,
Book SynopsisMany gardeners give up making backyard compost in frustration—the compost pile smells, it requires too much work to turn the heap, and the process requires too many ingredients and too much attention. Gardeners who have used compost barrels or kits know that their experience ends in one way: a smelly barrel that, after months of care, produces only a tiny amount of compost. What to do? Return to the way that compost has been made for centuries—in shallow pits. With this method, the compost never needs to be turned, never smells, and is ready in half the time. Any backyard gardener can make volumes of sustainable compost without any work. Shallow pit composting works with Mother Nature, letting her do the work!
£9.75
Familius LLC Tiny Garden, Huge Harvest: How to Harvest Huge
Book SynopsisWhen you plant the right varieties of heirloom vegetables, you can harvest huge volumes of fresh food from small garden plots and container gardens. Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock provides step-by-step directions for designing, planting, and harvesting a tiny garden for big harvests that can really feed your family.
£9.90
St. Lynn's Press The Downsized Veggie Garden: How to Garden Small
Book SynopsisThis is a timely, "especially for now" book, when growing food at home is at the top of many family to-do lists. Small is beautiful, and integrating a small, easy-to-manage garden into hectic everyday life is easy. In The Downsized Veggie Garden, low maintenance is the mantra. And so is making smart, creative use of the space we have – whether it’s outdoors, indoors, in-ground, in containers, on a balcony railing…or even going vertical. Garden expert Kate Copsey takes the reader season-by-season, plant-by-plant, with essential tips about soil, seed-starting, plant choices, non-chemical fertilizing, watering, choosing the right containers, veggie garden planning and planting, and much more. This fully illustrated book is a one-stop guide for the beginner gardener or the downsizing gardener.Trade ReviewThis guide will teach you to make smart, creative use of the space you have, whether it’s outdoors, indoors, in-ground, in containers, on a balcony railing, or even going vertical. The author takes readers season-by-season and plant-by-plant to build the pint-sized garden just right for their gardening style and space. You’ll learn all you need to know about soil, seed starting, plant choices, non-chemical fertilizing, watering, choosing the right containers, and veggie garden planning and planting.This is a good beginner's gardening book and would make a nice housewarming present. -- Jill Sell * Gardening books will inspire homeowners whether they live in the city or country *
£14.24
St. Lynn's Press Late Bloomer: How to Garden with Comfort, Ease
Book SynopsisThere are times in a gardener's life when what we want to do and what we can do are at odds. Our knees and backs may be complaining, our energy isn’t what it was – yet our desire to get our hands in the dirt is as strong as ever. Or maybe we’ve downsized to a much smaller outdoor space that doesn’t look promising at all. What to do? In Late Bloomer, garden designer Jan Coppola Bills shows us how to successfully rethink our approach to gardening as we age. The author is a second-half-of-life gardener who helps her many friends and clients achieve easy care, low cost, eco-friendly, simple and beautiful gardens. It’s all about maintaining a joyful, healthful connection with the soil – but without the toil. Late Bloomer is part garden philosophy and part on-the-ground strategies and tips from the author and expert gardeners across the U.S. With color photos on almost every page, this inviting and practical book is organized around the four tenets of the Late Bloomer philosophy: Simplicity. Beauty and Harmony. Comfort and Ease. Relaxation and Letting Go.Trade ReviewLate Bloomer may be a small book but it brings a different perspective for landscape designers and is full of ideas for giving the client gardens they will want to live in. -- Bobbie SchwartzHer down-to-earth tips are so smart, they could help gardeners of any age get more enjoyment from their gardening experience. -- Jodi Torpey * How to be a Happy Gardener *[Jan's] new book, "Late Bloomer", is as much about changing our later-life view of gardening as it is practical tips on getting the job done despite sore backs and aching knees. -- George WeigelThis book is all about making gardening easier as we age, but it would be a great resource for any gardener who could use tips on easy ways to keep their green spaces looking great. -- Joanne Kempinger DemskiLate Bloomer is filled with sensible ideas about tools, plant selections, irrigation, and garden maintenance. The good advice is not just for veteran gardeners, but beginning gardeners and everyone in between. -- Jill Sell
£13.99
Grizzly Publishing Co El Manual Para El Agricultor Casero: Una Guía
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£20.89
Good Books Create Your Own Florida Food Forest: Florida
Book SynopsisPicture yourself strolling through a lush and tame jungle loaded with sweet fruit, vegetables, roots, medicinal herbs, flowers and darting butterflies. Now imagine that Eden is your very own Florida yard - it can be if you plant a food forest! By creating an edible forest garden, you''ll be working with nature instead of against her. No matter where you live in the state, you can transform a patch of grass or woods into a magical edible Eden in just a few years. A food forest is Florida gardening on the easy setting! Your fight to grow food in Florida is over.In this massively expanded, revised and extensively illustrated second edition of Create Your Own Florida Food Forest, David The Good shares notes and details on many exciting plants and how to fit them into your Florida food forest system, with both tropical and temperate species recommended depending on your location in the state. Hundreds of original botanical illustrations are also included from over fifty different artists. You''ll learn how to start and maintain a food forest in Florida despite the sand, the bugs and the climate by tapping into the bounty of the tropics and the delight of your own imagination.If you enjoyed the first edition, this new edition will blow your mind. Discover the permaculture breakthrough that may one day feed the world. Start a Florida food forest and build soil, get plants for free and grow more food with less work!
£21.84
Florida Food Forests, Inc. The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide
Book SynopsisAre you struggling with South Florida gardening? Would you like to grow lots of food, even in a tiny backyard? Would you like to beat the pests, improve your soil, and harvest baskets and baskets of delicious homegrown food? You CAN grow food in South Florida, and grow more than you ever thought possible.In this helpful guide to gardening in South Florida, native Florida gardener David The Good shares the secrets to getting great harvests from our unique climate. Learn the crops and the methods for explosive year-round gardening success in The South Florida Gardening Survival Guide!
£12.88
Filbert Press A Beautiful Obsession: Jimi Blake's World of
Book SynopsisJimi Blake has spent the last 25 years discovering stand-out plants which he grows in dynamic and innovative ways at the fabulous Hunting Brook Gardens. As we “walk the garden” in this absorbing book it’s impossible not to gasp at his exuberant, highly idiosyncratic style and marvel at his acute eye for interesting plants. Foliage plants play a key role, their finely cut leaves, extraordinary shapes and rich textures changing the way we think about trees and shrubs. In another bold move, cacti and succulents are summer planted to provide interesting pairings with hardy perennials while jewel-box geums, dahlias and salvias are carefully chosen for their long flowering and perfect hues. Hunting Brook is always on the move and even regular visitors find fresh surprises around every corner, often inspired by Jimi’s recent travels or a new purchase from a specialist nursery. Yet from the open borders to the woodland and valley there is a grounded quality to the garden that reflects Jimi’s close ties with the land and respect for the spirit of the place. A Beautiful Obsession inspires new garden projects, rewrites the rule book about combining plants and changes the way you think about plants and gardens.
£32.99
Tuttle Publishing Moss Ball Bonsai: 100 Beautiful Kokedama That are
Book SynopsisPlant, soil, moss, twine—that's all you need to create the exciting form of bonsai known as koke (moss) dama (ball).Moss Ball Bonsai provides all the information you need to make these self-contained gardens, using different types of plants—from flowering trees and ferns to grasses and cacti. A sampling of 100 different kokedama shows how even the most common of house plants can shine in this appealing no-pot environment, while a section on mosses acquaints you with the many tones and textures of this versatile plant family.With this bonsai guide, you will learn how to: Create and maintain a healthy home for your miniature garden's root system Use inexpensive house plants and cuttings as the basis of your kokedama Make beautiful (and quirky) group plantings within a single project Find, collect and propagate moss And more! Whether resting on a pottery dish or suspended in the air, these little indoor gardens are a wonderful way to add a touch of artistry and greenery to your home or work space.Trade Review"…Sunamori offers numerous tips and examples to help readers enable their Kokedama to prosper...With the current popularity of houseplants, this seems a natural thing many readers may want to try." -- Booklist"Moss Ball Bonsai is full of ideas for those interested in creating unusual kokedama displays.…The author offers page after page of stunning photos of creations…I recommend this book for those gardeners who have created a few moss balls already and are looking to try some fun variations on the art form." -- Washington Gardener Magazine"…an interesting mix of educational information, stunning photos, and fun, almost child-like drawings and add-ins." -- The Danger Garden blog
£12.74
Susaeta Ediciones, S.A. Jardinería Sin Agua: Xerojardinería
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£15.77
New India Publishing Agency Fundamentals of Plant Pathology
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£128.48
Periplus Editions (Hong Kong) Ltd The Edible Flower Garden
Book SynopsisLearn how to grow lovely and fragrant flowers then use them create delicious meals with this beautifully illustrated flower gardening and cooking book.Anyone who picks up The Edible Flower Garden will be tempted to grow, harvest, and sample at least a few of the more than forty varieties of edible flowers. Among them, you'll find more familiar food plants—dill and mustard, for example—in addition to common flowers, such as tulips or roses. Author Rosalind Creasy's stunning photography and detailed plans for an edible flower garden make this a must-have book for any flower gardener or home chef. Come along with Creasy on a tour with colorful pictures and careful diagrams and descriptions of her own flower gardens. Included is a tour of the edible flower gardens of Alice Waters famed Chez Panisse restaurant. Creasy catalogues each variety of flower and how to grow it, plus gives a myriad of delectable ideas on how to use the flower from candied violets and roses to decorate appetizers and cakes, to nasturtiums for a colorful shrimp salad, to daylily buds, pink clover and wild mustard flowers that are tossed together in a spectacular stir-fry.Favorite Recipes Include: Flower Butters Candied Flowers Tulip and Endive Appetizer Pineapple Sage Salsa Rose Petal Syrup Lavender Ice Cream And much more… Trade Review"For me, Ros Creasy is the Mother Goddess of a new generation of American Kitchen Gardeners. She inspires us all by showing how the twin passions of gardening and cooking are connected in history and practice. Her extensive research, combined with a personal writing style that reveals her creative zest, make her book absolute essentials for all gardening cooks." --Renee Shepherd, Owner of Renee's Garden, Gardening Expert and Seed Supplier"Rosalind Creasy's enthusiasm and knowledge of gardening and cooking never cease to amaze me. Anyone who reads these books will catch Rosalind's enthusiasm and be off running towards a new passion." --A. Cort Sinnes, Editor-At-Large, Gardening How-To"Whether you are already a flower enthusiast or have never eaten a flower, this book will tempt you. You are drawn into the beautiful and tasty world of edible flowers. Everything you need to know is between the covers of this book--from good I.D. photos of each flower and growing information to general ways to prepare the flowers and what foods they are best in. Even after all of my years of eating flowers, Ros has opened my eyes to new uses for many of my favorite edible flowers." --Cathy Wilkinson Barash, Author of Edible Flowers from Garden to Palate
£12.99
