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Complete
Home Gardening: Growing Secrets and Techniques for Gardeners
by Miranda Smith
Paperback: 320 pages ISBN: 1580113265
Publisher: Creative Homeowner (December 1, 2006) |
| Complete Home Gardening: Growing
Secrets and Techniques for Gardeners will satisfy those readers who enjoy the process of
gardening as much as the finished product. It contains equal parts of inspirational
photographs and hands-on instructional pictures. Complete Home Gardening presents the
latest gardening techniques for the 21st century gardener with an emphasis on time-saving,
efficient practices. There is considerable space devoted to growing herbs, flowers,
vegetables, and fruit. This book is perfect for the gardener who wants to know how things
grow and why certain practices are more effective. |
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Jerry
Baker's Great Green Book of Garden Secrets
by Jerry Baker
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: American Master Products, Inc. (September 1, 2006)
ISBN: 0922433364 |
| Handy Hints, Timely Tonics, and
Super Solutions to Turn Your Yard into a Green Garden Paradise! Gardeners can turn a bare
plot into a beautiful paradise with the 1,050 miracle-working solutions, tonics, and
tricks collected in this power-packed garden resource. Designed to increase flora growth
and reduce animal damage, this guide describes how to create more than 125 garden-fixing
elixirs using common household products and illustrates easy and inexpensive solutions to
even the most perplexing problems. Readers can discover how to stop moles with chewing
gum, revitalize roses with bananas, supercharge plants with chicken bones, and whip weeds
with vinegar without undue expense or effort. |
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Gardening
on a Shoestring
by Rob Proctor
Paperback: 176 pages ISBN: 1555663761
Publisher: Johnson Books (May 15, 2006) |
| Gardening on a Shoestring is for
anyone who has more energy than dollars and who wants to create a beautiful garden. Here
fixer-upper types, new gardeners, new homeowners, and renters alike will learn how to
become savvy shoppers, how to determine which size plant is the best deal, when the best
sales are, and much more. |
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Jerry
Baker's Giant Book of Garden Solutions: 1,954 Natural Remedies to Handle Your
Toughest Garden Problems
by Jerry Baker
Paperback: 384 pages ISBN: 0922433763
Publisher: American Master Prod, Inc.; Reprint ed (Apr 1, 2006) |
| Common household products and
down-home ingenuity are combined to combat frustrating garden problems in this
indispensable handbook for both green thumbs and novice gardeners. Organized by garden
area, 1,954 easy-to-use homemade remedy recipes—containing items such as beer, baby
shampoo, and ammonia—instruct gardeners how to turn puny plants, wretched roots, and
tired trees into gorgeous garden specimens without the use of store-bought chemical
alternatives. Quick fixes are offered for fighting fungus with pantyhose, defeating
botanical disease with peppermint, and bug-proofing vegetables with mustard and cloves;
and obstacles such as heavy rains, nutritional plant deficiencies, and gardening on sloped
areas are also discussed. |
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Illustrated
Dictionary of Gardening
by Michael Pollock (Editor)
Hardcover: 864 pages
Publisher: DK ADULT; Illustrate edition (October 31, 2005)
ISBN: 0756614805 |
| This illustrated garden library in a
single volume provides one-stop, quick-reference for looking up hundreds of plants,
techniques and gardening terms. |
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Cheap and
Easy Gardening
by Mary Young, Bernice Boughner
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (October 11, 2005)
ISBN: 0595364780 |
| You say you have a yard that could
be improved by a liberal application of Agent Orange? You say you are mowing, trimming,
weeding, and pruning when you’d rather be swimming, golfing, fishing, or eating?
Cheap and Easy Gardening is the answer for you. The authors have spent decades creating
gardens that require less and less work each year, not more and more. They will help you
plan a yard that suits your needs, looks good, and doesn’t take a fortune or every
spare minute of your time to maintain. |
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