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Organic Gardening: Tips For Every Season Of The Year

tammiej — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:39:20 +0000

Amazon Best Seller: Organic
Book Description
Organic Gardening: Tips For Every Season Of The Year is a quick guide to help prospective organic gardeners set up and maintain your cropping endeavors.

Organic Gardening Tips
Organic Gardening Advice To Make Your Garden Thrive
Organic Gardening Tips To Improve Your Family's Health
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Secrets to Successful Organic Gardening: soils, bugs, sprays and everything else you need to know to make your organic garden thrive

tammiej — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:42:33 +0000

New to gardening, or just to gardening organically? In this useful and easy-to-read book Fi clearly outlines the things you need to consider when gardening organically, and how to get started to give your garden the best chance of success. From compost to bugs, soils to sprays, this is a must-have book you’ll refer to over and over again.

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The All-New Illustrated Guide to Gardening: Now All Organic!

tammiej — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:45:02 +0000

The best just got better. Reader's Digest's best-selling gardening book is totally revised and updated with hundreds of new plant varieties and all 4-color photos illustrations, plus ALL-ORGANIC solutions and simple projects for eco- friendly gardening.
Written by experts, this full-color edition contains all new illustrations, photos, tips, and tricks for everything from organic fertilizing and composting to rotating a vegetable garden. Diagrams on beneficial bugs, weeds, and plant disorders, sections on bulb care for both outdoor and indoor planting, proper sowing of annuals, and properly planting perennials help make your garden beautiful, every year. And it?'s all presented in clear, easy-to-understand language.
This practical guide is a refreshing gardening source book that features: * All-new 2,500 full-color stunning photographs and 800 full-color practical step- by-step diagrams and illustrations
* An extensive plant directory of more than 700 plants-plus hundreds of new plant varieties-listed by common and botanical names.
* New information on eco-friendly gardening-including recipes for non-toxic fertilizer and disease & pest controls-as well as recommendations for planting to attract hummingbirds or repel deer.
* Over 200 pages of charts that provide easy-to-access information on the latest trends in plants, problem-solving tips, new hardiness zone maps, and more.
* All-new organic garden guidance-how to garden safely without nasty chemicals, from planting and fertilizing to pest control.
* Directions for specialized and trustworthy gardening websites where gardeners can get additional information.
* Comprehensive index that features cross-referenced common and botanical names for absolute accuracy.
With All New Illustrated Guide to Gardening as your guide, you'll be designing and implementing a gorgeous organic garden in no time.

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Lawns, Grasses and Groundcovers (Rodale’s Successful Organic Gardening)

tammiej — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:24:51 +0000

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The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener’s Supply Book)

tammiej — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:20:08 +0000

With more than 45,000 sold since 1988, The New Organic Grower has become a modern classic. In this newly revised and expanded edition, master grower Eliot Coleman continues to present the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming and gardening for the long-term health of the soil. The new book is thoroughly updated, and includes all-new chapters such as: *Farm-Generated Fertility-how to meet your soil-fertility needs from the resources of your own land, even if manure is not available. *The Moveable Feast-how to construct home-garden and commercial-scale greenhouses that can be easily moved to benefit plants and avoid insect and disease build-up. *The Winter Garden-how to plant, harvest, and sell hardy salad crops all winter long from unheated or minimally heated greenhouses. *Pests-how to find "plant-positive" rather than "pest-negative" solutions by growing healthy, naturally resistant plants. *The Information Resource-how and where to learn what you need to know to grow delicious organic vegetables, no matter where you live. Written for the serious gardener or small market farmer, The New Organic Grower proves that, in terms of both efficiency and profitability, smaller can be better.

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No Green Thumb Required! Organic Family Gardening Made Easy

tammiej — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:19:32 +0000

Everyone wants their family to eat healthy food and a back yard garden is the way to go. But with today's big houses and tiny yards, often there is no room for a traditionally sized garden. Most families are too busy to take on a project that requires hours of weeding every week nor do they have the time to research planting dates and plant varieties.

"No Green Thumb Required" is a new approach to home gardening that combines ancient methods of intensive gardening with the latest research in soil science, natural fertilizers, and organic gardening techniques. Best of all, it's easy! By building raised beds and filling them with weedless soil, you eliminate the hassle. All you do is plant seeds and water as needed. This book will take you through the steps of how you and your family can plan, install and manage your own organic garden.

Start a new tradition in your family, help your kids learn about nature, and start eating, safe, fresh, healthy vegetables, all year long!

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Taylor’s Weekend Gardening Guide to Kitchen Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful and Functional Culinary Garden (Taylor’s Weekend Gardening Guides (Houghton Mifflin))

tammiej — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:08:55 +0000

For beauty and practicality, nothing can equal the popular kitchen garden, with its combination of ornamental and edible plants.

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Invisible Gardener’s Natural Pest Control EBook (Invisible Gardener’s Organic Gardening Series)

tammiej — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:25:23 +0000

Over 167 pages, 30 chapters from Natural Ant Control to Natural Disease controls. Everything you need to know in controlling pests and diseases naturally. Latest Edition.

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Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

tammiej — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:31:53 +0000

This classic has now taught generations of gardeners how to use the natural benefits of plants to protect and support each other. Here is a reader's complete reference to which plants nourish the soil, which keep away bugs and pests, and which plants just don't get along. Here is a complete guide to using companion planting to grow a better garden. 555,000 copies in print.

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The Truth About Organic Gardening: Benefits, Drawbacks, and the Bottom Line

tammiej — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:34:30 +0000

Gardeners tend to assume that any organic product is automatically safe for humans and beneficial to the environment—and in most cases this is true. The problem, as Jeff Gillman points out in this fascinating, well-researched book, is that it is not always true, and the exceptions to the rule can pose a significant threat to human health. To cite just one example, animal manures in compost can be a source of harmful E. coli contamination if imporperly treated. Gillman's contention is that all gardening products and practices—organic and synthetic—need to be examined on a case-by-case basis to determine both whether they are safe and whether they accomplish the task for which they are intended.

Ultimately, Gillman concludes, organic methods are preferable in most situations that gardeners are likely to encounter. After reading this eye-opening book, you will understand why, and why knowledge is the gardener's most important tool.

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