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Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
viii, 253 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides information on how to start and maintain a desert landscape, addressing concerns such as irrigation, planting wildflowers, and palm tree care; and features an almanac that offers month-by-month maintenance tips.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
208 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality. Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com, provides guidance for both beginning and intermediate gardeners with engaging tips, projects, and recipes -- whether you have access to a small backyard...
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
416 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whether you want to plant a tree, choose a climber, grow fragrant flowers, or learn how to apply the various types of fertilizer, this comprehensive A-to-Z book will help you get the job done. And because topics are cross-referenced, you will find it easy to use. Inside are samplers of varieties of the best-loved plants -- flowers, vegetables, trees, and shrubs -- and a list of tulips that will take turns blooming all spring long. And for lovers of...
32) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
After helping Strega Nona plant her vegetable garden just so, Big Anthony takes some extra seeds and sows another garden willy nilly, then must find a way to deal with the consequences.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have...
Author
Series
It's fun to learn volume 1
Publisher
Advance Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
What does a seed need to grow into a flower or vegetable? In A SURPRISE GARDEN, your child learns some "fun-damentals" of gardening when Rabbit (from Winnie the Pooh) presents each of his friends with surprise seeds to plant.
Author
Publisher
Rise
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"The beautiful simplicity of a garden is depicted through digital woodcut illustrations and engaging nonfiction text presented as a series of sweet questions and gentle replies. Less of a traditional how-to and more of a how-to-appreciate, this soothingly sparse text paints an inviting and accessible picture of what a garden offers. And with an all-child cast, the absence of an adult presence empowers readers to view the garden and its creatures through...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xi, 196 p. ; ill. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
This witty guide to gardening organically includes tips that may seem unorthodox but that the author guarantees will work. She also includes helpful information about the benefits of gardening that go beyond the actual plants involved, including exercise and relaxation.
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : colored illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Join Anna and Benjamin as, with a little help from their neighbor, they spend a year learning about the all the wonderful things you can do in a garden: planting, harvesting, playing, enjoying picnics and spotting wildlife.
40) The new organic grower: a master's manual of tools and techniques for the home and market gardener
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the European intensive growers, [this book] offers a very approachable and productive form of farming that has proven to work well for the earth and its stewards for centuries. Gardeners working on 2.5 acres or less will find this book especially useful, as it offers proof that small-scale market growers and serious home gardeners can live good lives close to the land and make a profit at the same time."--
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