Specialised gardening methods

The first thing to do about starting an orchard is to plan for it, Jacob Biggle, the author of this handy little book, advises.

When The Biggle Garden Book was first published in 1908, most people were in the habit of raising their own food and flowers.

The only just and true way for an honorable and manly man is to grow them, and let everybody about the place have all he can eat.

Fifteen peopleplus a class of first graderstell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community.

Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures.

Maximize your vegetable output!

With over 40 projects to make your own creative containers, Container Gardener's Handbook will show you how to reveal the full potential of overlooked pots and transform your garden.

Practical introduction to the fascinating world of growing and caring for orchids.

Make inexpensive projects with a Japanese aestheticwhether you're an interior designer, avid gardener, small space enthusiast or gardening beginner!

Discover the Thrill of Adventures Right from Your Living RoomImagine transforming your living space into the launchpad for an extraordinary journey of discovery, creativity, and wellness.

In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards.

Grow better tomatoes-more reliably, more profitably, and with less guesswork Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding crops to grow and one of the easiest to get wrong.

"e;Growing Food in the High Desert County"e; is a comprehensive gardening book with emphasis on growing vegetables.

The biggest mistake gardeners make each season is starting out too big and then quickly realizing their large plot requires too much weeding, watering, and backbreaking labor.

When the inspiration hits to start an organic garden, many novices could benefit from a guidebook that speaks directly to their enthusiasm, their goals, and, of course, their need for solid information that speaks a newbie''s language—from the most trusted source for organic gardening methods.

According to HGTV, the popular home and garden cable television station, water features are currently among the hottest landscaping trends in the United States, offering a way to increase a home's resell value and providing a creative outlet for homeowners.

Your lawn is a representative of you and your home it shows your neighbors and visitors how much time and effort you are willing to put into keeping your home looking good.

From the decorative to the practical, Brickwork Projects for Patio & Garden offers a range of projects for all levels of expertise.

Grow beautiful fruits, vegetables, and flowers with rich soil you produce yourself!

Looking to make your home greener?

The smallest window sill, the tiniest balcony, or a sliver of space on a bookcase can now be adorned by thriving greenery!

Packed with practical advice from leading cultivation specialists, this concise, easy-to-use book covers virtually every aspect of garden design and maintenance-from choosing a plot to selecting plants, maximizing space and building raised beds.

Modern apartment dwellers who want to enjoy green growing things often lack the space for a garden.

This book offers a fun and lighthearted guide to growing your own salads, herbs, vegetables, and fruit, armed with little more than a trowel and some seedlings.

The exquisite art of bonsai is beautifully demonstrated in this authoritative, practical handbook, which takes the reader from a first foray into the world of miniature trees to a level of considerable expertise.

This book is aimed at anyone who is thinking of building a pond, anyone who has bought some of the materials but doesn't know how to start or anyone who has a pond and needs to know how to keep it at its best.

Home Gardener's Water Gardens is the essential guide to enhancing an outdoor space with bubbling, gurgling, flowing water.

Home Gardener's Orchids is the essential guide to choosing and growing orchids successfully in any climate.

Home Gardener's Container Gardens is the essential guide to gardening with attractive urns, troughs, tubs, hanging baskets, window boxes, and wall pots.

This beautifully illustrated book provides an inspirational and practical introduction to the traditions of Japanese Zen gardens, using natural materials such as wood, bamboo, rocks and pebbles.

This inspirational and practical book demonstrates how well-chosen houseplants breathe life into an interior, lifting the spirits, providing a burst of colour and texture and fill a room with scent and character.

Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition, is a combination landscape design and project book in one, whcih has been updated with all new photographs.

From growing lawns and planting trees, to putting in stone walkways or water elements, readers will discover the right way to do it in straight-forward steps that anyone can follow to realize their dreams.

As more and more people seek locally grown food, independent, family owned and operated agriculture has expanded, creating local networks for selling and buying produce, meat, and dairy products and reviving local agricultural economies throughout the United States.