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Even beginner gardeners can select plants to create a stunning garden as unique as this land itself--with expert help to ensure success! Prairie & Plains States Getting Started Garden Guide contains all of the information you need to choose and care for plants in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota. Novice gardeners, new homeowners, and those new to the area will find it invaluable, but more experienced gardeners and home landscapers will also fall in love with this...

Professional entomologist and amateur gardener Eric Grissell suggests that it might be time to declare a truce with the insects in our lives. With a sound basis in science and a practical grounding in gardening experience, Grissell introduces the reader to the role of insects in garden ecology. His insightful account of insect biology is supported by gorgeous photographs, which reveal a captivating beauty and illustrate the vital interdependence between insects and plants. Now available in paper...

Whether you are an experienced gardener or a complete beginner, this book contains everythin you need to know about planning, planting, and maintaining your garden all year round.

In the literature and lore of yesteryear, Douglas Green discovers time-proven gardening practices that will help today's gardener plan, plant, and keep up a garden in which to delight. A perfect gift for those with a green thumb, this book combines a passion for gardens past with practical, good-sense guidance that every gardener can immediately put to use to solve everyday gardening problems.

Burpee Seed Starter includes: a detailed plant encyclopedia - profiling 300 of the best annuals, perennials, vegetables, and herbs - listing all the basic growing needs of the plant, including soil in light needs. Complete and up-to-date information on sowing indoors and outdoors, fertilizing, watering, thinning, transplanting, troubleshooting, and much more. Special tips scattered throughout on purchasing seed, seed viability, and different equipment available to help the home-gardener plant se...

All gardeners know the disappointment of discovering that their bedding plants have been nibbled, their prized fruits and vegetables riddled with rust. "The Garden Pests & Diseases Specialist" is the essential guide to identifying the likely culprits and banishing them from the garden. The book starts with the basics, introducing common pests and diseases that afflict ornamentals, vegetables, fruits and houseplants, and looking at the best ways of dealing with them. Biological controls, which ar...

This book is ideal for beginners, improvers and those serious about growing tasty, healthy organic fruit and vegetables. It will empower readers to grow food for a family, and help work out how to get the best results. Many books give sowing and growing instructions for a multitude of crops, but few give space to the techniques and tips that make gardening easier and that help anyone to grow healthy, sustainable food. Some of the techniques are developed from Joyce's own trials and observations;...

This exciting title is for butterfly lovers and gardeners who not only want to create a butterfly-friendly garden, but also want to support butterflies and moths in order to maintain healthy populations. Author Brenda Dziedzic noticed that there were far fewer butterflies around today than she saw in her childhood. Starting in her own garden she set out to learn why and what she could do to rectify this. Raising Butterflies in the Garden is the outcome of what she learned about these fascinati...

Pick your container, fill it with water, and sit back and watch your plant grow-now in full color! Hydroponics for Houseplants is the answer to anyone who has ever shied away from growing house plants because of messy dirt or fear of things dying if left for a few days without water. Ditch the hassle and learn how to grow plants indoors with nothing but water. Peter Loewer, an inveterate inventor of water gardening techniques, has written and illustrated this charming guide to teach readers th...

Fotografias y dibujos acompanan las explicaciones de todos los procedimientos sobre que hacer en cada momento del ano con los ornamentales, frutales y bayas y parras.

Kitchen gardens are beautiful as well as functional. In addition to salad greens and other vegetables, they can provide herbs, edible flowers and even cutting flowers to decorate the table.'

This comprehensive reference describes garden-worthy ferns, conifers, and flowering plants (annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs) native to the Pacific Northwest. Featured are some 530 subject species that occur naturally from southwestern Alaska to Oregon's border with California, and from the coast east to Idaho. Illustrated throughout with nearly 600 eye-popping color photographs and original pen-and-ink drawings, this book is smartly separated by plant type into five encyclopedic sections....

The Prepper's Guide to Foraging is not a plant identification guide in the traditional sense. It is instead a guide to using plants to supplement other means of food production and subsistence living. Author David Nash believes that there is not enough land available for to support a large-scale return to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the event of a large-scale disaster, but that botanical knowledge does provide an edge to the well prepared. This book advocates the acquisition of knowledge to...