Home vegetable gardening is all the rage. Millions of Americans have picked up spade and hoe and are digging into the soil for the first time. But starting a garden isn’t always simple. Many hopeful growers find themselves confused by the dizzying array of things to know about soil quality, garden layout, seeds, temperatures, planting schedules, fertilizer, pests, watering, and harvesting. Still other first-time gardeners plant too much, only to find themselves overwhelmed and exhausted by July.

Barbara Pleasant is here to help. In Starter Vegetable Gardens, Pleasant a master gardener and award-winning gardening writer takes the guesswork out of growing food, explaining in simple, straightforward language how to start, maintain, and expand a bountiful vegetable garden in small, manageable spaces.

Pleasant presents 24 no-fail, small-scale garden plans from a simple bag garden (planted right in soil bags!) to an orderly border and from a family food factory to specialty beds for salads, Cajun flavors, and Italian cuisine. For each plan she provides plant and material lists, a plot layout, four-color photographs, and tips for succession planting to keep the garden productive all season long. Her all-organic approach ensures that the harvest is not simply tasty but also chemical-free.

Pleasant anticipates and answers novice gardeners myriad questions, guiding readers through the complexities of assessing site and soil, understanding the climate, choosing the very best vegetable varieties, starting seeds, identifying insect friends and foes, watering, fertilizing, mulching, and harvesting.

The books layout is friendly and accessible, filled with detailed images that bring the concepts to life. Both instructive and inspiring, Starter Vegetable Gardens is an essential one-stop resource for anyone just beginning to cultivate a vegetable-gardening green thumb.

Includes 24 illustrated planting plans including:

 Easy-Care Bag Garden Backyard Veggie Border Front-Yard Food Supply Family Food Factory Paintbrush Beds High-Value Verticals Marinara Medley Managed Mulch Garden Sweet Corn & Company Cajun Spice Six-Weeks-Sooner Salad Garden

Author: Barbara Pleasant
Paperback: 180 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2010-03)
ISBN: 1603425292
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If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine.
This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.

Author: Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch
Paperback: 236 pages ISBN13: 9781890132279, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Chelsea Green (1999-10-01)
ISBN: 1890132276
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Your lawn is a representative of you and your home it shows your neighbors and visitors how much time and effort you are willing to put into keeping your home looking good. But, in these fragile times, many people also want to ensure their lawn care does not endanger the environment or any of the pets or children that might play on that lawn. Organic lawn care is becoming much more prevalent for many home owners, but knowing how to effectively plant a grow a lawn, keep weeds away and kill bugs without using chemicals and unnatural law products can be complicated and downright confusing in many cases. This book was written with these things in mind, guiding every lawn care enthusiast through the steps needed to continue caring for a lawn without letting the concerns that develop because of unnatural products overwhelm you or your lawn. The keys to organic lawn care, starting with how to create a low maintenance lawn are laid out in great detail in this book, providing the essential details you need to enjoy your yard while not endangering the environment, your pets, or your children. You will learn how to keep your lawn healthy with the right soil, seed, sod, and feeding without using any chemically enhanced products and how you can start caring for your lawn by mowing, watering, fertilizing, edging, and trimming with organic fertilizers and tools. Finally, learn how to change your existing lawn so that it is both environmentally sound and just as beautiful as it has always been. The final step in the process will show you how to deal with pests, disease and weeds in your lawn organically. Lawn experts in every field have been interviewed for this book and their advice has been included to provide specific, top tips for organic lawn care. Anyone looking to maintain their lawn and stay eco-conscious need look no further than this book.

Author: Sandy Baker
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc. (2011-04-29)
ISBN: 1601383673
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Fruit trees, shrubs, and vines are true two-for-one plants. Many varieties are strikingly beautiful — well suited to doing double duty as delicious sources of sweet, organic fruit and as ornamental additions to the home landscape. Backyard fruit plants also tie in perfectly with the growing locavore movement. It's difficult to find food that's more local than one's own backyard!

"Luscious landscaping," as author Lee Reich calls it, takes fruit-bearing plants off the commercial farm and replants the prettiest and tastiest specimens in suburban and rural yards. Spring blossoms, summer and fall fruit, and the year-round presence of the plants themselves bring a special magic to the home landscape. Pillowy pink blossoms on peach branches or the bright orange fruit of persimmon trees perk up their surroundings with color and drama.

Beautiful plants, yes, but these landscaping additions also provide sweet, nutritious fruit. Homegrown, organic varieties bear almost no resemblance to commercially produced fruits,which are bred and selected to withstand shipping and refrigerated storage conditions. It's hard to believe that Alpine strawberries and those grown in California and shipped across the country are even related!

Fruitscaping is a complete, no-nonsense guide to growing temperate-zone fruit, with information on everything from planting and pruning to pest control and harvesting. Readers will find all the basics of landscaping with fruit — site analysis, climate assessment, understanding soil and sun, plant selection, and optimizing growing conditions. An encyclopedia of 38 plants includes information for each entry on hardiness, size, potential pests, special care and pruning, harvesting, and visual appeal.

Author: Lee Reich
Paperback: 192 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2009-02-04)
ISBN: 1603420916
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The organic gardener's guide to improving soil for higher yields, more beautiful flowers, and a healthy, easy-care yard and garden. From taking a soil test to applying soil supplements, Gershuny tells how to plan and implement an easy but comprehensive soil-care system for vegetables, flowers, lawns, trees, shrubs, and container plants. 75 illustrations.

Author: Grace Gershuny
Hardcover: 274 pages
Company: Rodale Pr (1993-06)
ISBN: 0875965679
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Soil is the basis not only for all gardening, but for all terrestrial life. No aspect of agriculture is more fundamental and important, yet we have been losing vast quantities of our finite soil resources to erosion, pollution, and development. Now back in print, this eminently sensible and wonderfully well-focused book provides essential information about one of the most significant challenges for those attempting to grow delicious organic vegetables: the creation and maintenance of healthy soil.

Author: Grace Gershuny
Paperback: 173 pages
Company: Chelsea Green Publishing (1999)
ISBN: 1890132314
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Title: A natural approach: the organic trend that has gripped the food industry is still in its infancy in the personal care sector, but changes are in the works.
Author: Imogen Matthews
Publication: Household & Personal Products Industry (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42 Issue: 10 Page: 52(2)

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James W. Smith is something of a wrinkled garden gnome that has the practical knowledge gained from years and years down on his hands and knees in the dirt. He's your own personal gardening superhero, Plantman to the rescue! This book will save you time and money, because he's already done the years of research, experimentation, observation and hard work for you. Think of this as "The Garden Gospel according to James," your practical, fluff-free garden guide that will demystify gardening and enable you to cultivate the world of plants. You'll understand how plants grow, what they need to thrive, and the things you can do to provide the best environment for them using sustainable methods and techniques. This is, quite possibly, the shortest and most informative gardening book ever!

Author: James Smith
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: (2009-11-01) (2009-11-01)
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Whether an experienced gardener is looking to go organic or a beginner wants to create a healthy, eco-friendly garden, the Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening contains the tips and techniques needed to produce beautiful flowers, top-quality herbs, and appetizing, wholesome fruits and vegetables. Explore the latest methods for cultivation without chemicals, discover the benefits of composting, and learn how to maintain an organic garden year-round.

Paperback: 416 pages
Company: DK ADULT (2005-04-18)
ISBN: 0756609321
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Author: Jo Readman
Paperback: 48 pages
Company: Search Press (1997-07)
ISBN: 085532693X
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Author: Barbara Wilde
Hardcover: 288 pages
Company: Rodale Books (2002-05-01)
ISBN: 0875968805
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In the modern suburban landscape, beautiful, green lawns are perhaps the most ubiquitous feature of all. It’s difficult to imagine a friendly neighborhood without broad, clean stretches of neatly shorn grass. More and more in recent years, those lawns are evolving into organic systems as homeowners — concerned about the long-term effects of chemicals on their children, their pets, and the environment — turn to natural methods to keep their yards healthy and inviting, and, yes, still green and lush, too.

Paul Tukey, a self-confessed mowing addict, answers the growing demand for organic grass with a comprehensive volume of natural lawncare information. Step by step, he takes readers through the many elements that work together to form a healthy, organic lawn. Well-treated soil, fed properly with compost and natural fertilizers, is the foundation of every great lawn. Plant it with a grass cultivar matched properly to the climate and sunlight, nourish the soil and grass with the proper amount of water, and maintain the height with a good mower equipped with a sharp blade. A beautiful, naturally maintained lawn can be as simple as that.

An organic, healthy lawn is the best defense against weeds and pests, but when unwanted visitors creep in, Tukey is ready with Weed and Thug ID Guides and advice on dispatching them naturally or learning to live with the benign offenders. Tukey also provides helpful advice for lawnkeepers making the transition from a synthetic to an organic lawn system. It’s all here — everything today’s homeowner needs to keep his lawn off drugs, and make it an inviting living and play area for the whole family.

Author: Paul Tukey
Paperback: 271 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2007-01-30)
ISBN: 1580176496
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Your lawn is a representative of you and your home it shows your neighbors and visitors how much time and effort you are willing to put into keeping your home looking good. But, in these fragile times, many people also want to ensure their lawn care does not endanger the environment or any of the pets or children that might play on that lawn. Organic lawn care is becoming much more prevalent for many home owners, but knowing how to effectively plant a grow a lawn, keep weeds away and kill bugs without using chemicals and unnatural law products can be complicated and downright confusing in many cases. This book was written with these things in mind, guiding every lawn care enthusiast through the steps needed to continue caring for a lawn without letting the concerns that develop because of unnatural products overwhelm you or your lawn. The keys to organic lawn care, starting with how to create a low maintenance lawn are laid out in great detail in this book, providing the essential details you need to enjoy your yard while not endangering the environment, your pets, or your children. You will learn how to keep your lawn healthy with the right soil, seed, sod, and feeding without using any chemically enhanced products and how you can start caring for your lawn by mowing, watering, fertilizing, edging, and trimming with organic fertilizers and tools. Finally, learn how to change your existing lawn so that it is both environmentally sound and just as beautiful as it has always been. The final step in the process will show you how to deal with pests, disease and weeds in your lawn organically. Lawn experts in every field have been interviewed for this book and their advice has been included to provide specific, top tips for organic lawn care. Anyone looking to maintain their lawn and stay eco-conscious need look no further than this book.

Author: Sandy Baker
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc. (2011-04-29)
ISBN: 1601383673
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For decades fruit growers have sprayed their trees with toxic chemicals in an attempt to control a range of insect and fungal pests. Yet it is possible to grow apples responsibly, by applying the intuitive knowledge of our great-grandparents with the fruits of modern scientific research and innovation.
Since The Apple Grower first appeared in 1998, orchardist Michael Phillips has continued his research with apples, which have been called "organic's final frontier." In this new edition of his widely acclaimed work, Phillips delves even deeper into the mysteries of growing good fruit with minimal inputs. Some of the cuttingedge topics he explores include:
The use of kaolin clay as an effective strategy against curculio and borers, as well as its limitations
Creating a diverse, healthy orchard ecosystem through understory management of plants, nutrients, and beneficial microorganisms
How to make a small apple business viable by focusing on heritage and regional varieties, value-added products, and the "community orchard" model
The author's personal voice and clear-eyed advice have already made The Apple Grower a classic among small-scale growers and home orchardists. In fact, anyone serious about succeeding with apples needs to have this updated edition on their bookshelf.

Author: Michael Phillips
Paperback: 360 pages
Company: Chelsea Green (2005-10)
ISBN: 1931498911
List Price: $40.00
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Learn insider secrets to making your own organic and natural skincare, hair care, and spa products. You will learn which vegetable oils, herbs, floral waters, essential oils, plant-based emulsifiers, and natural preservatives to use, how to pack and label your own beauty products, and how to store them safely. The book contains more than 250 recipes and step-by-step techniques used by the author, holistic nutritionist Julie Gabriel (THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE) to create her own organic skincare line, Petite Marie Organics. Free of artificial ingredients and based on traditional beauty wisdom, recipes and advice in this book are easy to follow and cost very little to prepare. Practical, straightforward, and fun, these recipes are equally suitable for green beauty enthusiasts as well as professional beauty practitioners. After reading this book, you will be able to create your own creams, lotions, cleansers, toners, masks, hair treatments, sun protection and baby care products. Facial cleansers, moisturizers, anti aging serums, sun protection lotions, hair treatments, and even deodorants can be prepared easily at home using only natural, easily available ingredients. In just minutes, you will be able to prepare a green, organic beauty product at a fraction of a cost of conventional chemical brew. You can pamper yourself head to toe with luxurious hair masks, deep cleansing home facials, aromatic massage oils, nourishing body lotions, and age-rewinding moisturizers in the most natural, luxuriously green way!

Author: Julie Gabriel
Paperback: 268 pages ISBN13: 9780956355812, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Petite Marie Ltd (2010-11-01)
ISBN: 0956355811
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Home vegetable gardening is all the rage. Millions of Americans have picked up spade and hoe and are digging into the soil for the first time. But starting a garden isn’t always simple. Many hopeful growers find themselves confused by the dizzying array of things to know about soil quality, garden layout, seeds, temperatures, planting schedules, fertilizer, pests, watering, and harvesting. Still other first-time gardeners plant too much, only to find themselves overwhelmed and exhausted by July.

Barbara Pleasant is here to help. In Starter Vegetable Gardens, Pleasant a master gardener and award-winning gardening writer takes the guesswork out of growing food, explaining in simple, straightforward language how to start, maintain, and expand a bountiful vegetable garden in small, manageable spaces.

Pleasant presents 24 no-fail, small-scale garden plans from a simple bag garden (planted right in soil bags!) to an orderly border and from a family food factory to specialty beds for salads, Cajun flavors, and Italian cuisine. For each plan she provides plant and material lists, a plot layout, four-color photographs, and tips for succession planting to keep the garden productive all season long. Her all-organic approach ensures that the harvest is not simply tasty but also chemical-free.

Pleasant anticipates and answers novice gardeners myriad questions, guiding readers through the complexities of assessing site and soil, understanding the climate, choosing the very best vegetable varieties, starting seeds, identifying insect friends and foes, watering, fertilizing, mulching, and harvesting.

The books layout is friendly and accessible, filled with detailed images that bring the concepts to life. Both instructive and inspiring, Starter Vegetable Gardens is an essential one-stop resource for anyone just beginning to cultivate a vegetable-gardening green thumb.

Includes 24 illustrated planting plans including:

 Easy-Care Bag Garden Backyard Veggie Border Front-Yard Food Supply Family Food Factory Paintbrush Beds High-Value Verticals Marinara Medley Managed Mulch Garden Sweet Corn & Company Cajun Spice Six-Weeks-Sooner Salad Garden

Author: Barbara Pleasant
Paperback: 180 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2010-03)
ISBN: 1603425292
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Author: Barbara Ellis
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1997-02-03)
ISBN: 0395813697
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Author: Nancy Portugal
Unknown Binding: 80 pages
Company: Potted Plant (1975)
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The long-awaited exploration of permaculture specifically for cooler Northern Hemisphere climates is finally here! Already regarded as the definitive book on the subject, The Earth Care Manual is accessible to the curious novice as much as it is essential for the knowledgeable practitioner.
Permaculture started out in the 1970s as a sustainable alternative to modern agriculture, taking its inspiration from natural ecosystems. It has always placed an emphasis on gardening, but since then it has expanded to include many other aspects, from community design to energy use. It can be seen as an overall framework that puts a diversity of green ideas into perspective. Its aims are low work, high output, and genuine sustainability.

Author: Patrick Whitefield
Hardcover: 482 pages
Company: Permanent Publications (2005-03-30)
ISBN: 185623021X
List Price: $75.00
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Author: J Main
Unknown Binding: 78 pages
Company: Wild Horses Potted Plant (1980)
ISBN: 0960108874
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Your lawn is a representative of you and your home it shows your neighbors and visitors how much time and effort you are willing to put into keeping your home looking good. But, in these fragile times, many people also want to ensure their lawn care does not endanger the environment or any of the pets or children that might play on that lawn. Organic lawn care is becoming much more prevalent for many home owners, but knowing how to effectively plant a grow a lawn, keep weeds away and kill bugs without using chemicals and unnatural law products can be complicated and downright confusing in many cases. This book was written with these things in mind, guiding every lawn care enthusiast through the steps needed to continue caring for a lawn without letting the concerns that develop because of unnatural products overwhelm you or your lawn. The keys to organic lawn care, starting with how to create a low maintenance lawn are laid out in great detail in this book, providing the essential details you need to enjoy your yard while not endangering the environment, your pets, or your children. You will learn how to keep your lawn healthy with the right soil, seed, sod, and feeding without using any chemically enhanced products and how you can start caring for your lawn by mowing, watering, fertilizing, edging, and trimming with organic fertilizers and tools. Finally, learn how to change your existing lawn so that it is both environmentally sound and just as beautiful as it has always been. The final step in the process will show you how to deal with pests, disease and weeds in your lawn organically. Lawn experts in every field have been interviewed for this book and their advice has been included to provide specific, top tips for organic lawn care. Anyone looking to maintain their lawn and stay eco-conscious need look no further than this book.

Author: Sandy Baker
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc. (2011-04-29)
ISBN: 1601383673
List Price: $24.95
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Learn how to make more money with your lawn care or landscaping business. Making money with your lawn care or landscaping business can be a challenge even in the best of times but it gets even tougher when you are up against heavy competition. This book will help teach you what successful lawn care & landscaping business owners are doing to not only survive but to make more money than their competitors. It covers how to make more money on bidding. How to read your customer's body language to know when you are charging too much or not enough. Learn the steps you should be taking to win more bids and things you should never do when trying to win a lawn care bid. You will also learn how to deal with picky customers, those that live out of state, those that like to cancel service without giving you enough warning, and help you figure out how much your customers are actually worth. Learn how to make more money with your lawn care crew by knowing the ideal crew size from others who have experimented with many different setups. Learn the best way to purchase equipment, which equipment to purchase and how to use it in order to make your business more profitable. Read how other lawn care & landscaping business owners defend themselves against the secret ways competitors try to keep you from growing. Pickup new sales techniques your competitors would never share with you and learn new lawn care marketing tips to grow and improve the profitability of your customer base. And lastly, learn what to watch out for when it comes to bad contracts, avoiding problems with the IRS, and how your credit rating can hold you back from growth. See where others have tripped up so you can avoid the pitfalls that lay ahead and find out what really works and what doesn't. All of these topics are covered and more with real world examples, from The Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum & The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show. To learn more about how to run your lawn care and landscaping business visit the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum at http://www.gopherforum.com and download a Free 30 day trial of Gopher Lawn Care Business Billing & Scheduling Software at http://www.gophersoftware.com

Author: Steve Low
Paperback: 206 pages
Company: CreateSpace (2011-07-18)
ISBN: 1463725981
List Price: $10.85
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If you follow the directions in this ebook, your organic lawns will look as good (or better) than the neighbors. And you, your kids, and your pets can roll around out there playing without concern for noxious cancer or disease-causing chemicals. Your neighbors will also thank you for reducing the amount of chemicals in their environment as well.

Award winning garden author Doug Green outlines the nine easy steps you can take to create a healthy lawn masterpiece in easy-to-follow steps debunking away the myths promoted by the lawn-chemical companies. Green starts by introducing you to the basics of organic thinking about lawns and quickly follows with step-by-step and season by season steps to create that perfect lawn using organic and environmentally sustainable techniques. Weed and insect control for the average lawn is fully covered including tips not often found about how to really make organic techniques work on the average home lawn.

He also launches into his trademark humor with the last section - a Guys Guide to Low Maintenance Lawn Care.

Green, an award-winning veteran of the nursery trade has written 8 print books but now writes exclusively for the Internet and his websites.

Author: Douglas Green
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-10-23) (2011-10-23)
List Price: $4.99
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Natural Lawn Care basics and more. Covers Natural weed control, natural disease control, how to reduce water 50 to 75%. Rock Dust too.

Author: Invisible Gardener, Andrew Lopez
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-11-12) (2011-11-12)
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Author: Barbara Ellis
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1997-02-03)
ISBN: 0395813697
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In the modern suburban landscape, beautiful, green lawns are perhaps the most ubiquitous feature of all. It’s difficult to imagine a friendly neighborhood without broad, clean stretches of neatly shorn grass. More and more in recent years, those lawns are evolving into organic systems as homeowners — concerned about the long-term effects of chemicals on their children, their pets, and the environment — turn to natural methods to keep their yards healthy and inviting, and, yes, still green and lush, too.

Paul Tukey, a self-confessed mowing addict, answers the growing demand for organic grass with a comprehensive volume of natural lawncare information. Step by step, he takes readers through the many elements that work together to form a healthy, organic lawn. Well-treated soil, fed properly with compost and natural fertilizers, is the foundation of every great lawn. Plant it with a grass cultivar matched properly to the climate and sunlight, nourish the soil and grass with the proper amount of water, and maintain the height with a good mower equipped with a sharp blade. A beautiful, naturally maintained lawn can be as simple as that.

An organic, healthy lawn is the best defense against weeds and pests, but when unwanted visitors creep in, Tukey is ready with Weed and Thug ID Guides and advice on dispatching them naturally or learning to live with the benign offenders. Tukey also provides helpful advice for lawnkeepers making the transition from a synthetic to an organic lawn system. It’s all here — everything today’s homeowner needs to keep his lawn off drugs, and make it an inviting living and play area for the whole family.

Author: Paul Tukey
Paperback: 271 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2007-01-30)
ISBN: 1580176496
List Price: $19.95
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It's time to "green" that cleaning routine! Millions of Americans are replacing harsh chemical cleansers with eco-friendly alternatives. Unfortunately, most commercial green cleaners are expensive, and they often come with dubious environmental claims.

Effective, nontoxic alternatives can be mixed up easily from kitchen staples — baking soda, vinegar, lemon juice, herbs, and borax — plus a handful of easy-to-find essential oils. In the second edition of The Naturally Clean Home, Karyn Siegel-Maier offers 150 all-natural recipes for cleaning every area of the home — from bathrooms to bedding, and from carpets to cabinetry.

Siegel-Maier, a writer specializing in complementary therapies whose work is featured in such publications as Mother Earth News and Natural Living Today, presents quick recipes for cleansers that are nontoxic, biodegradable, and freshsmelling. Formulas are so simple that even a novice can make them, yet they are as effective as the commercial options. Best of all, these recipes are much less expensive than commercial cleaners; most can be made for mere pennies per use.

With the second edition of this popular book comes a host of hard-working new recipes, including Rosemary-Geranium Floor Wipes for electrostatic floor mops, Thyme to Make Your Own Carpet Steamer, Weekend Warrior Wicker Wash, Telephone Dirty Talk Tamer, Clear the Air Room Spritzer, and Lavender Lift Automatic Dishwasher Soap.

Siegel-Maier also offers recipes for outdoor spaces — like Shoo-Fly Shake to keep flies away from your backyard barbecue — and covers areas less commonly considered in the cleaning routine: garden, houseplants, computer, even the septic tank!

Whether scrubbing or scouring, degreasing or dusting, The Naturally Clean Home makes it fun to mix up chemical-free products that are easy on home and planet!

Author: Karyn Siegel-Maier
Paperback: 223 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2008-12-01)
ISBN: 1603420851
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Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language, the authors make the benefits of cultivating the soil food web available to a wide audience, from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals.


Author: Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
Hardcover: 220 pages
Company: Timber Press (2010-02-24)
ISBN: 1604691131
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Unfiltered, unedited, and a little rough. A collection of landscaping & lawn care business lessons I've learned along the way. I see so many new lawn care businesses get started only to fail a short time later because the entrepreneurs didn't educate themselves enough about their field. Here is a collection of lessons I learned that will give your lawn care or landscaping business a better chance at success. As an added bonus, I have included some very helpful lawn care business marketing letter templates to super charge your business. By Steve Low Host of The GopherHaul Lawn Care Business Show and the Gopher Lawn Care Business Forum.

Author: Steve Low
Paperback: 314 pages
Company: CreateSpace (2009-08-06)
ISBN: 1448674018
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Included are chapters on mowing, watering, fertilizing, soil building, equipment selection, seeding, weed control, diseases and insects, ground covers, and mulches.

Author: Stuart Franklin
Paperback: 184 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (1988-01-10)
ISBN: 0882665189
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Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)Farm design for pest reduction (diversity, crop rotation)Unorthodox approaches (farmers out of the box)Identifying pestsCrop-by-crop pests and practices

Author: Brian Caldwell
Paperback: 104 pages
Company: Chelsea Green Publishing (2011-04-28)
ISBN: 1603583491
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More and more home gardeners are discovering the rewards of growing their own vegetables. But along with the pleasures of homegrown produce come a host of problems: bugs, diseases, and mysterious ailments that don't have an obvious cause. What's a gardener to do?

Don't panic — help is at hand. What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? teaches you how to keep your vegetables healthy so they're less susceptible to attack, and when problems do occur, it shows you how to recognize the problem and find the right organic solution.

Among the book's highlights are:

Clear information about how to team with nature to create the best growing conditions for your vegetables.Detailed portraits of the most commonly grown vegetables, including growth habit; information on the plant's season; temperature, soil, light, and water requirements; and best garden uses and planting techniques.Illustrated problem-solving guides that enable you to identify at a glance what's ailing your plant.Discussions of the most effective organic solutions, ranging from how to modify the growing conditions in your garden to how to cope with and eliminate specific pests and diseases.

If you care about raising the freshest, healthiest, most problem-free vegetables possible, then What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? will quickly become one of your most essential tools.

Author: David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth
Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Timber Press (2011-11-29)
ISBN: 1604691840
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Author: Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis, Deborah L. Martin
Paperback: 416 pages
Company: Rodale Books (2010-02-02) (2010-02-02)
ISBN: 1605296775
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Paperback: 544 pages
Company: Rodale Books (1996-05-15)
ISBN: 0875967531
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Paperback: 121 pages
Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1997-02-03)
ISBN: 0395813700
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Dealing with a sick plant is one of the most frustrating situations a gardener can face. More often than not, we have no idea what is causing the problem, or how to fix it. Fortunately, help is at hand. What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?) provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any problem, and matching it to the right cure.

This innovative and easy-to-use guide is split into three parts.

Part One presents easy-to-follow, illustrated flow charts—organized by  where on the plant the symptoms appear—that allow readers to accurately diagnose the problem. The format is so simple it doesn't even require knowing the name of the plant; all you need to know is whether the problem is affecting its roots, stem, flowers, or leaves. It does not matter whether the plant is a houseplant, perennial, vegetable, tree, or shrub.

Part Two offers a 100% organic way to fix the problem.  From improper growing conditions and environmental factors, to molds, pests, and diseases, every problem has a safe, natural solution.

Part Three shows photographs and drawings of stressed, damaged, and diseased plants that help with accurate comparison.

Whether your garden consists of herbs on a kitchen windowsill, a vegetable garden, an elaborate backyard border, or a container on a patio, What's Wrong With My Plant? is an indispensable resource. If you can see it, you can fix it. Curing a sick plant just doesn't get any easier.


Author: David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth
Paperback: 452 pages ISBN13: 9780881929614, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Timber Press (2009-11-05)
ISBN: 0881929611
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Author: Barbara W. Ellis
Hardcover: 534 pages
Company: Rodale Pr (1992-07)
ISBN: 087596124X
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Reference.

Author: Roger B. Yepsen
Hardcover: 464 pages Illustrated
Company: Rodale Pr (1984-05)
ISBN: 0878574883
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A unique combination of a month-by-month garden journal, an almanac, and a garden hints book in one.

In Organic Gardening magazine, the popular "Gardener to Gardener" column is a forum for gardeners across the country to reveal their most ingenious ideas to one another. Now, this unique format is combined with the best of a practical record-keeping tool and a garden almanac, offering readers a gardening book unlike any other on the market.

The focus of Gardener to Gardener is on natural, organic pest control-the most common problems among gardeners. Each month, readers are given specific projects and activities, which are complimented by garden-tested advice from both the readers and writers of Organic Gardening magazine. Journal pages allow gardeners to chart the progress of their developing gardens. Every region of the country is addressed, and readers are given fully-illustrated, what-to-do-in-the-garden instructions for their particular region. Timed for December, when gardeners begin planning for the growing season, Gardener to Gardener will help and inspire them to create their own organic masterpieces.

Author: Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine
Paperback: 256 pages
Company: Rodale Press (2001-01)
ISBN: 0875968627
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One of Britain’s most well known organic gardeners shares his tips, tricks, and timeless wisdom on fruitful gardening without dangerous chemicals and pesticides.

One of the biggest challenges of growing an organic garden is keeping away pests and diseases without using harmful pesticides. But as Bob illustrates in this necessary guide for any organic gardener, it is possible to keep your garden chemical-, pest-, and disease-free all at once. A master at growing organic produce, Flowerdew outlines the best natural methods, from building effective physical barriers and pest traps out of plants and recycled materials to using such natural pest predators as birds, reptiles, and even other bugs. 71 color illustrations

Author: Bob Flowerdew
Hardcover: 112 pages
Company: Skyhorse Publishing (2012-04-01)
ISBN: 1616086343
List Price: $14.95
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Dealing with a sick plant is one of the most frustrating situations a gardener can face. More often than not, we have no idea what is causing the problem, or how to fix it. Fortunately, help is at hand. What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?) provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any problem, and matching it to the right cure.

This innovative and easy-to-use guide is split into three parts.

Part One presents easy-to-follow, illustrated flow charts—organized by  where on the plant the symptoms appear—that allow readers to accurately diagnose the problem. The format is so simple it doesn't even require knowing the name of the plant; all you need to know is whether the problem is affecting its roots, stem, flowers, or leaves. It does not matter whether the plant is a houseplant, perennial, vegetable, tree, or shrub.

Part Two offers a 100% organic way to fix the problem.  From improper growing conditions and environmental factors, to molds, pests, and diseases, every problem has a safe, natural solution.

Part Three shows photographs and drawings of stressed, damaged, and diseased plants that help with accurate comparison.

Whether your garden consists of herbs on a kitchen windowsill, a vegetable garden, an elaborate backyard border, or a container on a patio, What's Wrong With My Plant? is an indispensable resource. If you can see it, you can fix it. Curing a sick plant just doesn't get any easier.


Author: David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth
Paperback: 452 pages ISBN13: 9780881929614, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Timber Press (2009-11-05)
ISBN: 0881929611
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Paperback: 544 pages
Company: Rodale Books (1996-05-15)
ISBN: 0875967531
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This handy tool for pest identification is just the right size for being taken right into the garden. Large color pictures and descriptions of each pest and their life cycle help make identification easy.

Author: Tom Roberts, Pest Publications
Paperback: 96 pages
Company: Book Publishing Company (TN) (1998-01)
ISBN: 1570670528
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Author: Fern Marshall Bradley, Barbara W. Ellis, Deborah L. Martin
Paperback: 416 pages
Company: Rodale Books (2010-02-02) (2010-02-02)
ISBN: 1605296775
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This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden, or landscape.
The Natural Enemies Handbook is superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140 expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites, and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information.
Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of arthropods.
References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied biological control literature will appeal to scholars.

Author: Mary Louise Flint, Steve H. Driestadt
Paperback: 154 pages
Company: University of California Press (1999-02-01)
ISBN: 0520218019
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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.

Author: Invisible Gardener
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: Invisible Gardener (2011-03-22) (2011-03-22)
List Price: $19.95
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A unique combination of a month-by-month garden journal, an almanac, and a garden hints book in one.

In Organic Gardening magazine, the popular "Gardener to Gardener" column is a forum for gardeners across the country to reveal their most ingenious ideas to one another. Now, this unique format is combined with the best of a practical record-keeping tool and a garden almanac, offering readers a gardening book unlike any other on the market.

The focus of Gardener to Gardener is on natural, organic pest control-the most common problems among gardeners. Each month, readers are given specific projects and activities, which are complimented by garden-tested advice from both the readers and writers of Organic Gardening magazine. Journal pages allow gardeners to chart the progress of their developing gardens. Every region of the country is addressed, and readers are given fully-illustrated, what-to-do-in-the-garden instructions for their particular region. Timed for December, when gardeners begin planning for the growing season, Gardener to Gardener will help and inspire them to create their own organic masterpieces.

Author: Editors of Organic Gardening Magazine
Paperback: 256 pages
Company: Rodale Press (2001-01)
ISBN: 0875968627
List Price: $16.95
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Got Ants? Get Help Now with this Natural Ant Control Ebook by The Invisible Gardener. Since 1972 he has been doing natural ant control for his customers and he has passed this information now to you!
If you have an ant problem, get yourself the help you need now. All 100% natural solutions. This book is worth the small cost. Learn how to make natural sprays to keep em out. Learn the 10 easy steps to controlling the ants in your home and garden. Andy is seen on PBS and has 4 radio shows. Stop by OrganicDatabank.info and check it out!

Author: Andy Lopez, Invisible Gardener
Kindle Edition: 43 pages Kindle eBook
Company: Invisible Gardener (2012-01-01) (2012-01-01)
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More and more home gardeners are discovering the rewards of growing their own vegetables. But along with the pleasures of homegrown produce come a host of problems: bugs, diseases, and mysterious ailments that don't have an obvious cause. What's a gardener to do?

Don't panic — help is at hand. What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? teaches you how to keep your vegetables healthy so they're less susceptible to attack, and when problems do occur, it shows you how to recognize the problem and find the right organic solution.

Among the book's highlights are:

Clear information about how to team with nature to create the best growing conditions for your vegetables.Detailed portraits of the most commonly grown vegetables, including growth habit; information on the plant's season; temperature, soil, light, and water requirements; and best garden uses and planting techniques.Illustrated problem-solving guides that enable you to identify at a glance what's ailing your plant.Discussions of the most effective organic solutions, ranging from how to modify the growing conditions in your garden to how to cope with and eliminate specific pests and diseases.

If you care about raising the freshest, healthiest, most problem-free vegetables possible, then What's Wrong With My Vegetable Garden? will quickly become one of your most essential tools.

Author: David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth
Paperback: 336 pages
Company: Timber Press (2011-11-29)
ISBN: 1604691840
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Author: Andrew Lopez
Paperback: 160 pages
Company: Invisible Gardener (2003-03-01)
ISBN: 0972689605
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