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Organic Gardening:
A Comprehensive Guide to Chemical-Free Growing: For
over 25 years, Crow and Elizabeth Miller have been innovators
in the field of gardening, promoting the understanding and
use of organic methods in all areas, including those where
it was previously thought impossible. Now, with Organic
Gardening, they reveal their methods, from the simple to
the complex. |
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The
Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener: A Guide to Growing
Your Garden Organically: Burpee has created a truly
encyclopedic, but non-intimidating, guide to organic vegetable
gardening that can be used and appreciated by anyone, whether
or not they've ever stuck a seed in the ground. All the
essential information is here. |
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All
New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space:
All New Square Foot Gardening ushers this 25-year-old method
into a new marketplace for a new generation of gardeners.
The book blends the author's Square Foot method with a highly
illustrated "how-to" approach that every gardener
will understand. |
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Straight-Ahead
Organic: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing Great Vegetables
in a Less-Than-Perfect World: This book is based
on the author's twenty five years experience as not only
a market gardener in Vermont, but as a nurseryman, organic
garden center operator, and seedsman proprietor of the seed
catalog, The Cook's Garden. |
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Worms
Eat My Garbage: A practical and "user friendly"
guide to recycling kitchen food waste, producing fertilizer
for house and garden plants, growing fishing worms, and
saving money, all through the process of a worm composting
system. |
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Lasagna
Gardening : New Layer System For Bountiful Gardens:
A time and labour saving method whereby the gardener builds
soil up (rather than digging down) by simply layering organic
materials onto a prospective garden site and close-planting
directly into it. Very intriguing. |
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Organic
Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control
: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide To Keeping Your Garden
And Yard: An excellent and comprehensive reference
book and diagnosis tool. Highly rated. |
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Rodale's
All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening : The Indispensable
Resource for Every Gardener: A large and comprehensive
encyclopedia from the pioneer in organic gardening. A timeless
classic. |
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Heirloom
Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting,
Growing, Seed Saving, and Cultural History: William
Woys Weaver has written an important book in Heirloom Vegetable
Gardening--important for the kitchen gardener, the cook,
the historian, and any American who might wonder what our
forebears were up to when they sat down to eat. What was
the food on their table? Where did it come from? How did
they get it? All these questions are addressed in Weaver's
elegant prose. |
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Seed
to Seed: Seed Saving Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener:
An excellent, easy to understand book on the importance
of saving local seed varieties and how to do so. A must
have for anyone growing heirloom seeds. |
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Breed
Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's
Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving: An informative,
insightful, and enjoyable book that is an essential guide
for gardeners and small scale farmers alike. |
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Four-Season
Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your
Home Garden All Year Long: Shows home gardeners
how to grow and harvest up to forty different vegetables
in season all year round by using cold frames, mobile greenhouses,
high-quality compost, and other simple and inexpensive tools
and techniques. |
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Eat
More Dirt: Diverting and Instructive Tips for Growing and
Tending An Organic Garden: A witty, whimsical gardening
primer for anyone who wants to tend their patch of earth
with a truly green thumb. |
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On
Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm:
This 12.5-acre oasis exists only because Michael Ableman
has steadfastly refused to let it be gobbled up by the relentless
bulldozers. His story is funny, fierce, inspiring, and infuriating.
His success, tempered by ample setbacks, will be of practical
use to anybody seeking to preserve farmland from suburban
sprawl. |
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The
Medicinal Garden : How To Grow And Use Your Own Medicinal
Herbs: Featuring detailed color photographs from
the author's own garden for easy identification, a practical
guide shows how to grow, prepare, and use a complete range
of medicinal herbs in distillations, infusions, and poultices. |
