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Zero-Waste Gardening is your essential go-to guide to growing your
own food for maximum taste and minimum waste. Organic gardening
expert, Ben Raskin, shares over 60 unique planning-for-yield guides
for key crops. Work out how to make the most of the green space you
have got, what to grow easily in it, and how much you will harvest
seasonally for zero waste. Learn about the roots of organic
gardening, and unearth how to plant waste-free for any size plot,
from balcony containers to 5-metre-square yards. Peppered with
root-to-stalk cooking techniques, and edibility tips including
which crops you can eat straight away, this is a plot-to-plate
handbook for everyone with a green-thumb. Perfect for new and
experienced growers, zero-food waste followers, city gardeners, and
the ecologically minded, this is the only gardening book you will
ever need!
Helpful hints on how to avoid pests and diseases, and what to do
when problems occur.
SowHow is an innovative grow guide for every modern gardener. With
its fresh, bright design and clear-cut know-how, the sleek reissue
of this little book provides expert advice and encouragement to get
growing whether you're looking to fill a garden, allotment, or a
patio pot. When you're growing veg for the first time it can be
hard to know where to start and even more difficult to find
inspiring advice that isn't completely incomprehensible... You'll
find entries on 30 easy-grow vegetables to sow throughout the
seasons, from kale to runner beans and carrots to cucamelons, plus
ideas for herbs, edible flowers and advice on cultivating your own
cocktail garden. SowHow breaks down the key steps of sowing,
planting and harvesting each featured vegetable into understandable
bite-sized chunks using straightforward language and smart
infographics. Plus, the essential start-up advice covering
everything from top tools and cunning crop rotations, to
uncomplicated compost and the lowdown on mulches, will make you a
pro in no time. Complete with simple cooking suggestions, shrewd
storage info and creative gardening hacks, this unique,
comprehensive companion will transform your grow space into a hot
bed for leeks, beets and all your other veggie friends. So whether
you are looking to fill a garden, an allotment, or a patio pot, get
going and grow with SowHow.
The UK's leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural
handbook to fulfil your every need and seed! Get your gardening
gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing fruit
successfully at home. A must-have volume for first-time gardeners,
Grow Fruit has tons of tips and tricks to sow, grow, plant and
propagate a diverse range of fruit, from plums to persimmons,
blackcurrants to blueberries, this grower's guide truly has it all!
Try your hand at more than 40 different varieties of fruit trees,
bushes, canes and vines, including allotment plot staples such as
damsons and blackcurrants, as well as lesser-grown options like
kiwis and pineapple guavas. With passion in every page, you can
enjoy: - A jargon-free practical guide to harvesting home-grown
fruits. - Easy to follow step-by-step instructions of fundamental
gardening techniques. - Exploration of popular fruits as well as
lesser-known options. In today's society, the ever-growing pressure
of balancing family life with a career suggests a lot of today's
green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for growing fruit and
vegetables at home. We believe it's time to change that! Whatever
your horticultural hopes may be, author and gardener Holly Farrell
brings you a fantastic fruit-growing guide that is sure to shape
first-time gardeners like never before, full of top tips to help
your garden thrive! An ideal gift for first-time gardeners, budding
botanists or the green-fingered lover in your life, make sure to
get those gardening gloves on, and join the journey today! At DK,
we believe in the power of discovery. If you like Grow Fruit why
not try the other titles in our Grow series? Learn how to brighten
your garden all year round with Grow Bulbs, enjoy a no-fuss guide
to container gardening with Grow Containers or minimise garden
waste with Grow Eco-Gardening. Ready, set, let's grow!
A comprehensive and lushly photographed guide to growing and using
healing plants, including recipes, from the founder of the Chestnut
School of Herbal Medicine This is the ultimate reference for anyone
looking to bring the beauty and therapeutic properties of plants
into their garden, kitchen, and home apothecary. Both informative
and accessible, it covers how to plan your garden (including
container gardening for small spaces); essential information on
seed propagation, soil quality, and holistic gardening practices;
30 detailed profiles of must-know plants (including growing
information, medicinal properties, and how to use them);
foundational principles of herbalism; step-by-step photographic
tutorials for preparing botanical medicine and healing foods; and
70 recipes for teas, tinctures, oils, salves, syrups, and more.
Packed with sumptuous photography, this book will appeal to home
gardeners who want to branch out to culinary and medicinal herbs,
home cooks and those interested in natural wellness, and novice and
skillful herbalists alike.
Forest Gardening (or agroforestry) is a way of growing edible crops
with nature doing most of the work. A forest garden imitates young
natural woodland, with a wide range of crops grown in vertical
layers. Species are chosen for their beneficial effects on each
other, creating a healthy system that maintains its own fertility,
with little need for digging, weeding or pest control. The result
of this largely perennial planting is a tranquil, beautiful and
productive space. This book is a bible for permaculture and forest
gardening, with practical advice on how to create a forest garden,
from planning and design to planting and maintenance. It explains
how a forest garden is designed from the top down: the canopy layer
first, then the shrub layer, the perennial ground-cover layer, the
annuals & biennials next, the climbers and nitrogen fixers and
finally the clearings, living spaces and paths. Whether in a small
back garden or in a larger plot, the environmental benefits of
growing this way are great. Forest Gardens are a viable solution to
the challenge of a changing climate: we can grow food sustainably
in them without compromising soil health, food quality or
biodiversity. Forest gardens: store carbon dioxide in the soil and
in the woody biomass of the trees and shrubs. enable the soil to
store more water after heavy rains, minimizing flooding and
erosion. boost the health of the ecosystem, ensuring a balance of
predators and beneficial insects because mixed planting is crucial
to the scheme. allows the soil to thrive because it is covered with
plants all year round. Creating a Forest Garden includes a detailed
directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials,
annuals, root crops and climbers. As well as more familiar plants
such as fig and apple trees, blackcurrants and rosemary shrubs, you
can grow your own chokeberries, goji berries, yams, heartnuts,
bamboo shoots and buffalo currants. Forest gardens produce fruits,
nuts, vegetables, seeds, salads, herbs, spices, firewood,
mushrooms, medicinal herbs, dye plants, soap plants, and honey from
bees. This book tells you everything you need to create your own
forest garden with beautiful illustrations and helpful tips
throughout.
This fun-filled outdoor adventure handbook is packed with unique
ideas to help kids discover the great outdoors and get closer to
nature. Created with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), the
UK's leading gardening charity, this pocket-sized guide teached
kids about different habitats. This gorgeously illustrated handbook
is bursting with fun activities, top tips and nature facts to help
inspire kids to explore the amazing world around them. Learn how to
choose a campsite. Grow your own daffodils. Learn how to navigate
using the night sky. Each page is packed with original ideas to
help kids discover and explore plants and wildlife, with exciting
activities for different habitats.
Orchids are the most charismatic of flowering plants and the largest family with over 20,000 species. Many are naturally rare and others are thought to be endangered or extinct through habitat destruction and over-collecting. Orchids have a high profile in conservation but relatively little is known about their distribution and lifestyles. Author Harold Koopowitz gives the most up-to-date information on the biology, ecology, distribution, destruction and conservation of orchids that there is.
This inspirational book from Kew Gardens' cacti and succulents
expert is the perfect guide to growing and maintaining a wide
variety of these fascinating plants. Indoors or outside, in the
smallest spaces or as features in large gardens, succulents and
cacti are popular in homes and gardens all across the world,
regardless of climate. They're resilient, beautiful and easy to
care for as long as you're armed with the right knowledge. Packed
with information and inspiration, and with the guiding authority
and expertise of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, this book teaches
you everything you need to know about 50 speciments of succulents
and cacti, from ideal humidity, light and temperature, to
maintenance instructions so that your plants can thrive. This book
also contains 12 easy-to-follow projects for you to carry out at
home, so you can grow a vibrant array of succulents and cacti for
your home, whether you are a complete beginner or a keen
enthusiast. Combining beautiful botanical illustrations and
practical advice, The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Succulents
and Cacti is the definitive introduction to growing these wonderful
plants. This book is from the Kew Experts series, in which the top
gardeners and botanical scientists from Royal Botanic Kew Gardens
offer up advice and information as well as suggesting handy
projects on a range of gardening topics. Other titles include:
Companion to Medicinal Plants, Guide to Growing Bulbs, Guide to
Growing Fruit, Guide to Growing Orchids, Guide to Growing Herbs,
Guide to Growing Roses, Guide to Growing Trees, Guide to Growing
Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
The definitive guide to hundreds of Britain's most outstanding
gardens, in the care of the National Trust The National Trust has
the finest collection of gardens in the United Kingdom. In this
book, Stephen Lacey paints a vivid picture of the individual
gardens, and places each one in its context within British
horticultural history. All the major periods and styles of garden
design are represented, from the formality of early gardens such as
Hanbury Hall and Ham House, magnificent 18th-century landscapes
like Stowe and Croome Park and the heady Victorian creations of
Biddulph Grange and Waddesdon Manor to the famous plantsmen's
gardens of the last century, such as Nymans, Hidcote Manor and
Sissinghurst Castle. The text and pictures have been fully updated,
with new entries including Allan Bank, High Close Arboretum and
Wentworth Castle. Several gardens have undergone major
redevelopment since the previous edition, while others have
colourfully expanded the acreage open to visitors. Extensive tree
planting, including reinstating a lost eighteenth-century avenue at
Dyrham Park and recreating the pear tree arch at Rudyard Kipling's
home, Bateman's, are just a few of the new and exciting additions
to this classic guide to Britain's most outstanding gardens.
A richly illustrated guide to the wildflowers and other flora of
coastal Britain, Ireland and Northwest Europe The rugged and
beautiful coastal regions of Britain and Ireland are among the
crowning glories of these islands. Few visitors can fail to marvel
at the stunning sight of Cornwall's clifftops resplendent with
flowering Thrift, or be struck by the resilience of plants that
thrive on the inhospitable shingle beaches of Dungeness on the
coast of Kent. This field guide covers more than 600 species of
wildflowers and other coastal flora found in Britain and Ireland,
and coastal mainland Northwest Europe. Detailed species accounts
describe wildflowers, grasses, sedges and rushes that occur on the
coast or in abundance within sight of the sea. Stunningly
illustrated throughout, this comprehensive, user-friendly guide
also covers trees and shrubs, a range of other groups from mosses
and seaweeds, and more broadly, the natural history of coastal
habitats. Covers more than 600 species of flowering plants Features
over 1,500 spectacular colour photos Describes other groups such as
ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, fungi and seaweeds Provides
up-to-date colour distribution maps for Britain and Ireland
Culinary Herbs & Spices of the World is a reference guide to
more than 120 different culinary herbs, spices and flavourings from
all the well-known culinary traditions of the world. It is a
scientifically accurate and richly illustrated review of the
physical appearance, correct names, botany, geographical origin,
history, cultivation, harvesting, culinary uses and flavour
ingredients of more than 120 different herbs and associated
species. A new perspective on the botanical and chemical principles
of tastes and flavours is presented, making it an interesting and
colourful contribution to the culinary exploration of the world. A
fully illustrated, scientifically accurate guide to practically all
commercial herbs and spices, with more than 600 colour photographs.
Written in an easy style with notes on propagation, cultivation and
culinary uses, the book will appeal to a wide readership, from
gardeners and food enthusiasts to botanists and academics. Some
exotic herbs and spices - especially from Africa and China - are
introduced for the first time to European and American readers. The
best-known use or signature dish for each herb or spice is given,
highlighting hitherto poorly known culinary traditions.
Introductory chapters include a concise overview of the main
culinary traditions of the world and a fascinating glimpse into the
chemistry of taste and flavour. Includes a quick guide and
checklist to the culinary herbs and spices of the world.
Ten annuals appear here, each a specific cultivar carefully
selected for its innate and enduring beauty. The photographs show
every critical stage of their development, creating an album which
should inspire planting that is as attractive in Winter as Spring.
Each plant is described in detail, explaining not just how it
develops and the conditions in which it develops, but also its
cultural, historic and folkloric associations.
This work gives the reader all the inspiration and information
needed to create a display of flowering and foliage plants indoors
for any situation, be it a small window box or a large
conservatory.
The way we currently produce our food is damaging both to ourselves
and our planet: we need to create gardens, woodlands and farms
which are in harmony with nature. Though all natural ecosystems
provide excellent examples to follow, Plants For a Future
specifically focuses on edible species, suggesting a wide variety
of easily grown perennials and self-seeding annuals which produce
delicious and healthy food. Describing edible and other useful
plants, both native to Britain and Europe, and from other temperate
areas around the world, Plants For a Future includes those suitable
for: the ornamental garden, the lawn, shady areas, ponds, walls,
hedges, agroforestry and conservation. It offers alternative
methods of growing these plants in ways that are in harmony with
the local environment and can help to improve the overall health of
the planet. In his thoroughly useful book, Ken Fern shares his
experiments and successes in growing herbs, vegetables, flowers,
shrubs and trees. Packed with information, personal anecdotes and
detailed appendices and indexes, this pioneering book takes
gardening, conservation and ecology into a new dimension.
My Unicorn Garden is bursting with crafts and activities perfect
for children. Created with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS),
the UK's leading gardening charity, this amazing book is packed
with fun things to make and do both indoors and outdoors. It's time
to get your green-hooves ready with your favourite unicorn friends!
Paint a unicorn plant pot Create fantastic flower pressings Make
your own mini unicorn garden Discover the wonderful secrets of
gardening with magical, mythical unicorns! These unicorns are off
on a garden tour to learn all about plants, wildlife and top
gardening tips. The unicorns can't wait to start exploring - and
you can join them! This book is packed with fun facts and
activities, so you can become a gardening expert, too. Step-by-step
gardening activities - perfect for families to enjoy the garden
together Easy-to-follow instructions for growing your own plants
Colouring in, spot-the-difference, and make your own daisy chain
and winter wreath!
Welcome to modern matchmaking - for plants! All you need to do is
be honest about what you can invest into your plant relationship
(attentiveness, experience ... sunlight) and voila - The Modern
Gardener will suggest the best matched plant partner for you.
Nothing livens up a room, windowsill or small yard like the
presence of leafy Swiss cheese plants, angular succulents,
perennial peonies or your own little herb garden. And this
comprehensive reference book starts by covering all the best types
of plants and planting for every type of indoor room, patio and
balcony - from decorative and beneficial, low maintenance or useful
edible plants - you'll find everything you need to know about how
to find the perfect plants for you and your lifestyle, and how help
them to thrive. The second half of the book - the Personal Plant
Selector - features an extensive directory of over 100 plants, in
which you will be introduced to each species and their
characteristics, benefits and needs, including quick facts on
potting and repotting, correct care and more. This beautifully
designed encyclopedia of plants also includes a comprehensive index
and a cross-referencing system, to make it easy to find information
quickly. It's the ultimate guide to your personal plant kingdom!
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