Homegrown Pantry

Homegrown Pantry
Author: Barbara Pleasant
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1612125794

Now that you’ve mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops — including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more — to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. Each vegetable profile highlights how many plants to grow for a year’s worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for specific varieties. Author Barbara Pleasant culls tips from decades of her own gardening experience and from growers across North America to offer planting, care, and harvesting refreshers for every region and each vegetable. Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner GWA Media Awards Silver Award Winner

Minnesota Gardener's Guide

Minnesota Gardener's Guide
Author: Melinda Myers
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1591861144

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. This book contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for the best plants.

Glorious Shade

Glorious Shade
Author: Jenny Rose Carey
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-04-19
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1604696818

Turn a shady yard into a sumptuous garden Shade is one of the most common garden situations homeowner’s have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can triumph over challenging areas and learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. Glorious Shade celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it. This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares the techniques, design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden. Stunning color photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture

The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture
Author: Christopher Shein
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1604692707

Offers information to gardeners of any skill level on how to create permaculture in their own backyard.

The Gardener's Guide to Cactus

The Gardener's Guide to Cactus
Author: Scott Calhoun
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-01-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1604692006

When it comes to garden plants, cacti are anything but standard issue. The bulk of home gardens contain exactly zero species of cactus,Êand the thought of growing them makes gardeners think, ÒOuch!Ó InÊThe GardenerÕs Guide to Cactus: The 100 Best Paddles, Barrels, Columns, and Globes, Scott CalhounÊis out to change that perception, and bring the beauty and ease of cactus home.ÊItÕs high time that cacti took their place alongside the trendyÊsucculent.

The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide

The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide
Author: Jenny Rose Carey
Publisher: Timber Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1643260383

The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide gives home gardeners the confidence they need to create the flower-filled garden of their dreams. Jenny Rose Carey proposes a holistic approach to flower gardening with a refreshing twist. Instead of concentrating primarily on color, it brings flower shape and texture to the fore, helping homeowners make plant choices that come together in an aesthetically pleasing way. The featured plants include both perennials and annuals, and all have been chosen for their ease of care, attractiveness to pollinators, and environmental friendliness. Carey also shares information on planning for year-round color and design strategies for a range of spaces. The Ultimate Flower Gardener's Guide is a complete road map to a successful and satisfying flower-focused garden.

Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops

Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops
Author: Freda Cox
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 2267
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1785004506

Snowdrops are one of the best loved, most popular and widely grown of all bulbous plants. This book celebrates their beauty and magical annual resurrection. This newly updated and expanded edition of this best-selling book introduces the twenty known species and has been updated to cover more than 2,400 named snowdrops. Discover the vast range of shapes, sizes and markings of these beautiful flowers. With information on cultivation and planting, detailed descriptions, informative drawings and interesting anecdotes this will be an invaluable companion for all gardeners, and will inform and delight both the aspiring and seasoned galanthophile. A comprehensive directory of names, descriptions and illustrations of hundreds of beautiful snowdrops. Beautifully illustrated with 86 plus a directory of 2002 colour illustrations. Freda Cox is a writer, established botanical artist and committed galanthophile.

A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants

A Gardener's Guide to Florida's Native Plants
Author: Rufino Osorio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2001
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780813018522

Abundantly illustrated in full color, this guide provides detailed descriptions and methods of cultivation for 350 of Florida's most attractive and easily grown native plants, including ferns, wildflowers, shrubs, trees, vines, aquatics, and epiphytes (air plants). 359 color photos.

Peonies

Peonies
Author: Pamela McGeorge
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9781554071685

A well-illustrated introductory guide to growing hundreds of species, varieties and hybrids of peonies. The book provides practical advice on how to plant, propagate, cultivate and landscape peonies.