With an efficient plan you can easily grow a mouth-watering produce garden in a small suburban lot and save hundreds of dollars from your food budget - all while feeding your family (and some lucky friends) the most nutritious, tasty food you've ever eaten. This book is specifically written with the beginning gardener in mind and will give you an organized, easy-to-understand guide to growing fruits, vegetables and herbs in your own backyard. Join the millions of proud Americans, past and present, and plant an earth-friendly produce garden in your yard. Follow the lead of Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama and convert your unused garden space or lawn into a year-round produce garden. You'll know exactly how the food was grown and you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you've made a positive difference in the world and have done your part to create a better tomorrow for us all. Imagine walking out your back door to take your pick of what's currently ripe in the garden: sun-warmed tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, fresh basil and lettuce leaves for a salad, young squash and bell peppers for grilling, tomatillos, cilantro and peppers to make salsa and fuzzy peaches, nectarines or plums to slice and enjoy with a scoop of vanilla ice cream... even fresh apples to bake into pies With some planning, money and time you can have the garden of your dreams... and it's easier than you think. Buy my book and let's get gardening

All aspects of pear cultivation are dealt with in this handy volume written by various experts on the subject. Thoroughly recommended reading for the budding gardener, it contains a wealth of information forming a complete how-to guide. Extensively illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

As food prices rise and awareness of food provenance and chemical usage increases, more and more people are becoming interested in growing their own food. However getting started can seem daunting, and many are deterred by a lack of knowledge and time. This book sets out to overcome these problems. With clear practical instructions and inspirational pictures, Clare Matthews demystifies the growing of fruit and shows that with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. The book explains simple short cuts, unusual low maintenance strategies and promotes a relaxed, robust attitude to growing-your-own, which really works. The book has been shot by the well-respected garden photographer Clive Nichols in the author's own weekend fruit garden, where the principles promoted in this book have been tried, tested and proven. Filled with fantastic images and sound horticultural advice, the book will appeal to the complete novice planning a new fruit garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Amateur Fruit Growing: A Practical Guide To The Growing Of Fruit For Home Use And The Market Samuel Bowdlear Green Webb pub. co., 1913 Fruit-culture

What everyone needs to know in order to grow the best tasting tomatoes at home. Tomatoes are wonderful additions to any home garden. They can be incorporated in a variety of dishes, and offer multiple health benefits. A garden with bright red tomato plants is a joy to behold. Armed with the right knowledge, you can have the tomato garden of your dreams. Of course, care and affection, from the time of planting until harvesting and through the plant's lifecycle, also plays a role in ensuring sustained and healthy produce.

This is the complete practical guide to kitchen gardening, from planning and planting to harvesting and storing. It shows you how to design the kitchen garden that's right for you, with original plans for a range of gardens of all shapes and sizes, including a large-scale vegetable plot, a potager, and a courtyard kitchen garden. It covers all the main vegetables, fruit and herbs, with detailed advice on the best varieties to choose.

This full-color, user-friendly field guide covers the basics involved in the collection, cleaning, and storage of fruit seeds. Learn from an expert how to overcome pests when storing seeds, and handle environmental factors that may threaten the integrity of your seeds. An introduction to identifying different varieties of seeds will make collecting easy for beginner and experienced collectors alike. Over 115 close-up color photographs of seeds gathered from fruit-producing plants are included in this encyclopedia-style guide. Each entry identifies the seed's family, common name, species, genera, and origin, and includes collection methods, a description of the number and color of seeds, useful hints for collection, and notes on growing the source plant. Gardeners around the world will appreciate this useful field guide when harvesting nature's bounty and preserving its genetic material for years and gardens to come.

This full-color, user-friendly field guide covers the basics involved in the collection, cleaning, and storage of vegetable seeds. Learn from an expert how to overcome pests when storing seeds, and handle environmental factors that may threaten the integrity of your seeds. An introduction to identifying different varieties of seeds will make collecting easy for beginner and experienced collectors alike. Over 120 close-up color photographs of seeds gathered from vegetables are included in this encyclopedia-style guide. Each entry identifies the seed's family, common name, species, genera, and origin, and includes collection methods, a description of the number and color of seeds, useful hints for collection, and notes on growing the source plant. Gardeners around the world will appreciate this useful field guide when harvesting nature's bounty and preserving its genetic material for years and gardens to come.

This early collection on pruning apple trees includes articles that would be both expensive and hard to find in their first editions. It contains information on the stages and methods of pruning, along with details of the tools involved. This is a fascinating work and highly recommended for anyone interested in fruit tree cultivation. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Written With Special Reference To Colder Climates.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

All aspects of cultivating strawberries are covered in this informative article written by an expert on the subject. With sections on Frost, Site, Soils, Preparation of the Bed, Planting Distances, Mulching and Manuring, Weeding, Watering, Derunnering, Strawing-Down, and a myriad more topics, it forms a complete how-to guide for the amateur or professional gardener. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

All aspects of home soil care are covered in this informative article written by an expert on the subject. With sections on the importance of drainage, soil improvement and fertilizers. Illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Contents Include: Annuals; Biennials, Perennials; Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes, Tubers; Easily Grown and Popular Annuals, Biennials and perennials; Flowers for Shade and Poor Soil; Narcissi, Tulips, Hyacinths, Gladioli, Lilies, Irises, Peonies; Vines; Roses; Shrubs; The Lawn; Ground Cover. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

Are you ready to reap a harvest of blessings? Learn how the seeds you sow, water, and tend will yield a wonderful life in Lessons From My Garden. Our God is faithful-step into the garden and let him teach you. Rev. Paula Bell is a retired teacher and organic gardener residing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She is a graduate of Salisbury University, as well as Christian World College of Theology. In addition to gardening she has a passion for books, music and spreading God's Word. You can contact her for speaking engagements by email at [email protected].

This is a comprehensive illustrated guide to a wide range of delicious soft fruits with information on their origins and nutritional values. It features step-by-step instructions for preparing the soil, cultivation and care, and propagation techniques. It includes expert advice on training, supporting and pruning fruit bushes, and harvesting and storing your crops. It offers helpful hints on how to avoid pests and diseases, and what to do when problems occur. In this kitchen garden handbook, the most popular soft fruits are illustrated with useful information on their origins, growing habits, nutritional content and culinary uses. The second section gives key advice on soil preparation, essential tools, propagation and protecting your fruit bushes. The techniques described include training and supporting fruit bushes, pruning, sheltering plants from the weather and harvesting and storing fruit crops. The section on practical cultivation tells you how to grow all types of berries and currants, whether you have a large kitchen garden, a small garden plot with some space in the borders, or room for a few containers. A must for the novice grower, this book also provides reliable information for the experienced gardener who wants to experiment with new varieties.

A brief, invaluable guide to the art of growing vegetables around the year and saving money in the process. Vegetable Growing is a practical guide to frugal allotmenteering, including planning your plot, looking after the plants and practical tips for keeping your costs down, such as clever ways of making freebie alternatives to common growing tools. An additional handy section offers advice on which fruit and veg will save you the most money, as well as a season-by-season guide and ideas for boosting your savings with foraged and wild food. Written by Jonathan Stevens of the Real Men Sow blog, who recently embarked on a mission to find out how much he could save by growing his own fruit and vegetables on a half-sized allotment plot.

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