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Caitlyn Marsh stopped believing in happily-ever-after when high-school sweetheart, Gideon Garza, left for Iraq. Now she raises her small son while her matchmaking gardening club members drive her crazy. Then Caitlyn's world turns upside-down when Gideon swaggers back to Twilight. Gideon had left town in the middle of night with threats ringing in his ears. A lot of things have changed since then. This bad boy-turned-Green Beret bears scars from the...
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"The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends will learn how they can expand their activity and help address the pressing issue of habitat loss with 100 Plants to Feed the Birds. In-depth profiles offer planting and care guidance for 100 native plant species that provide food and shelter for birds throughout the year, from winter all the way through breeding and migrating periods. Readers will learn...
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Gardeners want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife. But they also want beauty, a space for the kids to lay, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it's a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows how to do it. By combining the insights of two outstanding authors, it offers am model that anyone can follow. Inspired by its examples, you'll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape - one...
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"'The Fruit Gardener's Bible' is the complete reference on planting, growing, caring for, and harvesting everything from strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries to orchard fruits like apples, pears, peaches, cherries, almonds, and walnuts. A perfect companion to the best-selling The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, The Fruit Gardener's Bible has all the information you need to successfully grow fruits and nuts at home."--Publisher description.
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"Eliot is the reason I'm cooking. . . . I've followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."—Dan Barber, chef
"There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman."—Civil Eats
Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food—garden fresh and chemical free—all year long,
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Gardening may be pursued either as a hobby or as a career. To the modern urban world, gardening is a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. To a vocational gardener, gardening may be an enjoyable vocation. Whatever may be the reason behind the gardening activity, undoubtedly, growing flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and fruits, provides a great sense of joy, relaxation and accomplishment
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Essential Perennials helps you decide exactly which plants will bring you the beauty you want and will thrive in the conditions you can provide. Trusted garden experts Ruth Rogers Clausen and Thomas Christopher focus on what every gardener needs to know. For each plant you'll find flower color, season of bloom, foliage characteristics, height and width, light requirements, and hardiness and heat sensitivity. You'll also learn cultural tips, the...
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Recreate the wild beauty and thriving ecology of meadows, prairies, woodlands, and streamsides in your own garden.
In “New Naturalism”, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecologically sound vision for home gardens created with stylish yet naturalistic plantings that mimic the wild spaces we covet-far from the contrived, formal, high-maintenance plantings of the past. Through a basic introduction to plant...
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Put that spare PVC pipe to work with more than 50 inventive, step-by-step projects that yield tough and durable storage, furniture, gardening, toys, and much more, with The PVC Pipe Book.
With a few simple fittings, common home-improvement-store PVC pipe can be treated much like building blocks. Learn to engineer it in new ways for DIY projects that prove useful indoors and outside.
Whether you're a homeowner, gardener, homesteader, prepper, or...
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"Upcycle that unwanted wood! The New Pallet Book updates a unique woodworking book with 25+ new ways to take a stack of pallets and put them to use. Join home improvement author Chris Peterson for a complete guide to deconstructing and repurposing pallets. This edition, with tons of new content and more than 50 projects and ideas, features everything from dead-simple builds like pathway pavers and a mug holder to more challenging projects like a recycling...
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Would you like to grow a vegetable and fruit garden but feel like it just takes way too long? Well, the amazing thing is, it doesn't have to. Instead, you can plant some faster-growing veggies and fruit, plus have some great fresh green food options to choose from. These vegetables and fruit can produce a harvest in as little as four weeks, and they give your family and friend fresh greens to eat as you wait for the abundant harvest at the end of...
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PVC pipe is cheap, versatile, durable and simple to work with. Homesteader Charles Sanders has come up with 101 projects that can be, constructed from PVC piping, including a small-scale greenhouse, hanging planters, livestock or pet feeders, gutter cleaners, and a wide range of containers, holders, and racks for just about anything. With dozens of different types of fittings and couplings, almost any PVC project is a snap. Enterprising homesteaders...
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Home gardening the natural way.
Niva and Yotam Kay of Pakaraka Permaculture, on the Coromandel Peninsula of Aotearoa New Zealand, share their long experience of organic gardening in this comprehensive book on how to create and maintain a productive and regenerative vegetable garden.
Taking care of the soil life and fertility provides plants with what they need to thrive. This is grounded in the latest scientific research on soil health, ecological...
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"The ideal, easy-to-use resource for growing healthy, resilient, low-maintenance trees, shrubs, vines and other fruiting plants from around the world - perfect for farmers, gardeners and landscapers at every scale. Illustrated with more than 200 colour photographs and covering 50 productive edible crops - from Arctic kiwi to jujebe, medlar to heartnut - this is the go-to guide for growers interested in creating diversity in their growing spaces. Cold-Hardy...
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The fifth edition of this best-selling handbook features the same detailed approach that has made it the trusted source for raising healthy, productive rabbits -- plus a total redesign with color photos and graphics. Whether you're interested in raising rabbits for show, meat, fur, or as pets, this comprehensive guide offers expert advice on breed selection, housing, feeding, humane handling, and more. In addition, author Bob Bennett includes the...
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Whether you want to dabble in the homesteading movement or immerse yourself completely in the do-it-yourself, back-to-basics lifestyle, Welcome to the Farm is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to growing the very best food right in your own backyard. Shaye Elliott takes readers on a journey that teaches them how to harvest baskets full of organic produce, milk a dairy cow (and make butter), plant a homestead orchard, can jams and jellies, and...
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When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him two thousand dollars. The boy's sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.
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