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A game-changing book with more than sixty simple and sustainable
gardening activities, recipes and weekend fun for every season, The
Little Grower's Cookbook is the perfect way to tempt kids away from
screens and out into the green for some creative and eco-friendly
family time together. Whether it's a rainy day, the weekend or a
holiday, there are fun-filled activities to suit everyone. Simple
step-by-step instructions, colourful photos and plenty of tips and
tricks make seasonal growing, harvesting and cooking exciting and
easy. Have you ever tried to grow veggies in an old welly boot,
made a butterfly banquet or tasted a snail sandwich? With no need
for a large garden or a big budget, these projects will teach and
inspire children to look at what's around them in the natural world
and have fun with it. They will learn, play and experiment with
nature's bounty through planet-friendly projects that re-use
repurposed and recycled materials.
This early work is an absorbing read and thoroughly recommended for
the shelf of any horticulturalist. It contains much information
that is still useful and practical today. Contents Include:
Tomatoes: Choice of Site. Type of House. Varieties; The Soil;
Propagation. Potting. Planting; Pots and Boxes; Care after
Planting. Mulching. Trimming. Weight of Crop; Gathering and
Marketing. Grading. Packing; Diseases of Tomatoes; Pests;
Cucumbers: Site. Propagation. Varieties; Preparation and Planting.
Cleaning; Care after Planting. Trimming, Training and Stopping;
Gathering and Marketing; Pests and Diseases; Outdoor Tomatoes and
Ridge Cucumbers. Many of the earliest books, particularly those
dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best.
In My Garden (Book) Kincaid gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination.
This is an intimate, playful book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the people who tend to them.
There is no shortage of books on how to look after houseplants but
no one has shown us how and when and why these plants came to be in
our homes. Catherine Horwood's combination of social history, plant
history and the history of interior design explains why, as
Flanders and Swann sung in the 1950s, 'the garden's full of
furniture / and the house is full of plants.' In this fascinating
book we learned how potted plants are as much subject to fashion as
pieces of furniture. For the Victorians, it was the aspidistra in
the front parlour, the Edwardians loved a palm, and, for today's
millennials, no home is complete without the ubiquitous fiddle-leaf
fig. This book show that there is little new when it comes to
plants in the home. In the mid-18th century, Wedgwood created a
market for special bulb pots and in the 1950s, some of Terence
Conran's earliest designs were for houseplant containers. Across
the ages, the choice of potted plants has been influenced by the
layout of houses, the levels of dirt and pollution and the
equipment to hand. Now, with so much choice, we seem happy to treat
houseplants as disposables. This book gives a better understanding
of the miracles that were once achieved with indoor plant displays,
inspired by Sir Hugh Platt's 1608 vision of a garden 'within
doores'. This new edition has been revised with new material added
to bring the history of the houseplant and its massive explosion in
popularity right up to date.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
A beautifully designed organiser to keep all your information for
contacts, co-workers, family and friends in one place. This stylish
and elegantly designed address book has plenty of space to record
names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses for
everyone you need to stay in touch with. With colour-coded
alphabetical sections, a silk ribbon marker and beautiful floral
images throughout from the world-famous RHS Lindley Library, this
decorative address book makes the perfect gift!
Sports grounds are valuable assets which need to be constructed and
maintained properly for the particular sport or sports they serve
in order that they perform consistently well. This detailed,
practical guide provides information on the construction and
maintenance of sports grounds. In part one, the text explores the
extent to which games differ in their requirements and how these
various requirements can be met by growing grass in natural,
modified or specifically constructed soils. Drainage design and
choice of materials are first explored theoretically, but this then
leads on to a relatively simple, cost effective approach to design,
based on careful choice of a limited range of precisely defined but
readily available materials. In the second part, the general
principles are applied to specific examples of modern construction,
described in detail sufficient to form the basis of actual
specifications. The examples cover the construction and maintenance
of grass pitches suitable for vigorous winter games such as rugby
and soccer, contrasted with construction for golf and bowls where
the nature of the game requires fine turf. Hockey and cricket are
treated as games somewhat inte
This extensive reference book is a complete encyclopaedia of
gardening, explaining in alphabetical sequence terms of the culture
and propagation of hardy and half-hardy plants, trees and shrubs,
orchids, ferns, fruit, vegetables, hothouse and greenhouse plants,
etc. including diseases, treatments, their specific and common
names. The gardener is provided with a comprehensive encyclopaedia
which not only gives brief descriptions of all the plants they are
likely to meet but also complete information regarding their
cultivation. In its complete and unabridged original form it is
extensively illustrated and full of instruction that is as useful
and practical today as it was when originally published. Many of
the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and
before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This the most useful information available to the golf course
superintendent, course architect, and manager! It is written
specifically for the golf industry, and gives you the tool you need
to manage one of your course's most important assets--trees!
Golf Course Tree Management will teach you the basic science, along
with real world techniques to assist your in-house tree care
program, to guide you in the selection of a qualified arborist and
in the writing of comprehensive maintenance specifications. Protect
your course's aesthetic beauty, quality of play, investment, and
your job--this book shows you how!
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