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The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season $4.92 “Timing is everything,” they say, and vegetable gardening is no exception. Knowing exactly when to start seeds indoors, what day to transplant them into the ground, when to pinch off the blossoms, and when to pick for peak flavor is the secret to enjoying bountiful harvests all through the gardening season. In Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook, authors Ron and Jennifer Kujawski take…

Garden Way’s Joy of Gardening $13.97 The best of Dick Raymond’s vegetable gardening wisdom is illustrated with full-color photos and at-a-glance charts that make his methods accessible to any gardener….

The Backyard Orchardist: A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden $10.49 A complete guide to growing fruit trees in the home garden….

Allotment Gardening For Dummies $18.61 Dust off your wellies and get ready for reams of delicious allotment produceWhether you’re hoping to get a foot on the allotment ladder or need to rejuvenate a flagging patch, this essential guide will get you on track in no time. The step-by-step advice and useful illustrations will help you organise your plan of attack and grow healthy veg, fruit, herbs and flowers. With handy tips on how to cook the things you’ve grown and useful info on growing organically, allotment gardening doesn’t get easier than this!Get to grips with the basics – unearth the perfect plot, swot up on allotment rules and regs and prepare your tools for actionLay the groundwork for success – map out your space, banish weeds and learn how to look after your soilGrow your favourite vegetables – take your pick from potatoes, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, onions, tomatoes, salad leaves, peas, beans, sweetcorn, artichokes, peppers, aubergines and moreExtend your allotment repertoire – move beyond veg to cultivate delicious fruit, zesty herbs and attractive flowersGet the most out of your allotment – involve the kids, enjoy allotment social life and impress your mates with giant vegetablesOpen the book and find:What tools and equipment you’ll needAn allotment calendar, helping you decide what to grow, whenThe best ways to kill weeds, fight disease and deter pestsHow to keep your soil healthyCooking tips for allotment produceAdvice on creating your own compost heapSimple and safe projects for kidsHow to prevent common allotment disastersWays to revive a tired allotmentLearn to:Navigate waiting lists and find the best patch for you Prepare your soil to encourage tip-top growthPlant a huge range of fruit, veg, herbs and flowersGrow organically and get the most

Allotment Gardening For Dummies $26.5 Dust off your wellies and get ready for reams of delicious allotment produceWhether you’re hoping to get a foot on the allotment ladder or need to rejuvenate a flagging patch, this essential guide will get you on track in no time. The step-by-step advice and useful illustrations will help you organise your plan of attack and grow healthy veg, fruit, herbs and flowers. With handy tips on how to cook the things you’ve grown and useful info on growing organically, allotment gardening doesn’t get easier than this!Get to grips with the basics – unearth the perfect plot, swot up on allotment rules and regs and prepare your tools for actionLay the groundwork for success – map out your space, banish weeds and learn how to look after your soilGrow your favourite vegetables – take your pick from potatoes, carrots, parsnips, broccoli, onions, tomatoes, salad leaves, peas, beans, sweetcorn, artichokes, peppers, aubergines and moreExtend your allotment repertoire – move beyond veg to cultivate delicious fruit, zesty herbs and attractive flowersGet the most out of your allotment – involve the kids, enjoy allotment social life and impress your mates with giant vegetablesOpen the book and find:What tools and equipment you’ll needAn allotment calendar, helping you decide what to grow, whenThe best ways to kill weeds, fight disease and deter pestsHow to keep your soil healthyCooking tips for allotment produceAdvice on creating your own compost heapSimple and safe projects for kidsHow to prevent common allotment disastersWays to revive a tired allotmentLearn to:Navigate waiting lists and find the best patch for you Prepare your soil to encourage tip-top growthPlant a huge range of fruit, veg, herbs and flowersGrow organically and get the most

Dooryard garden; Tim & Jennifer’s calendar from planning to harvesting $1.5 Used – Describes how a brother and sister plan their garden, build a compost pile, choose and plant the seeds, and harvest the vegetables. Includes suggestions for indoor gardening.

Down To Earth Gardening Down South, Revised Edition $7.66 A hands-on book to garden by, this update of a popular guide to backyard vegetable gardening in the Southern Coastal Plain by a former garden writer is especially valuable for newcomers to the area who find the concept of all-season gardening confusing. Experienced gardeners also can learn and enjoy. The clear, easy to read style helps even the novice gardener understand how to work with nature to grow vegetables; locate the garden site, choose tools, select varieties and plant or transplant and take it through to harvest. It is a guide to improving both plot and production year after year through organic methods of soil building, composting, and a selection of environmentally friendly but effective pest control substances. . Chapters on selection of vegetable varieties, seed starting, tools to buy, identification of insect friends and enemies, small space and container gardening cover the bases. The Planting Guide targets spacing, amount of seed required, planting dates and varieties. A 12 month gardening calendar lists chores, planting and harvesting tips; numerous NOTES pages throughout encourage keeping adequate, helpful records and make this a useful tool. The chapter on pest identification and control “TAKE A TOAD TO LUNCH” begins, “For those of us who grew up secure in the knowledge that all bugs are bad bugs and toads give you warts, gardening organically takes some major psychological adjustments. Some of the bugs and all of the garden toads turn out to be on your side. “A toad, conveniently, looks like a toad. Identifying beneficial members of the insect world takes more study. It’s worth the trouble though, because insects that prey on pest insects areimportant biological or natural controls that help us grow food without unnecessarily poisoning either ourselves or our environment.” Revised edition by Lacy F. Bullard, former Garden Writer for the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, who wrote the original with the late C. Art