What's different about Northern Virginia? What are your neighbors' secrets to a flourishing garden? In this second edition, over 90 gardeners and naturalists teach us how to create an aesthetic habitat that works for wildlife as well as for ourselves. Topics include: Basic gardening topics -favorite tools, mistakes to avoid, water features, saving money, gardening with children, dealing with deer and other critters, container gardening, growing from seeds, life in the soil, mulch, woodland walks, ferns, trees, groundcovers, ornamental grass, houseplants, bonsai, reliable plants, and more. Edible gardening - fruits and vegetables, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, beekeeping. Fitting into our ecosystem - native plants, removing invasive aliens, organic gardening, rain gardens. Information about local resources - garden centers, public gardens, volunteer opportunities, plant sales and shows, garden clubs and societies. A very extensive index will tell you at a glance whether a plant is native, invasive, or deer-resistant.

Are you limited on space, but still find yourself yearning to grow vegetables? If so, vegetable container gardening may be the answer. As long as you have room for a container or two (or twenty), you can grow vegetables pretty much anywhere you want. They can be grown on your porch, your balcony or even on a fire escape. Container gardening allows you to quickly and easily set up a small garden that will provide you with vegetables for years to come. The following topics are covered in this handy guide: What container gardening is.The benefits of vegetable container gardening and why it's a good choice for aspiring gardeners.The 4 simple and inexpensive items you need to get started.Designing your vegetable container garden.Choosing a location for your containers.Choosing a container.A quick rundown of the pros and cons of the various materials containers are made of.What raised beds are and why they are a better choice than traditional gardens.How self-watering containers can save you from over- or under-watering your plants.What you need to know about soil.How to determine the pH of your soil.Mulching.Good vegetables and herbs for container gardening.Growing vegetables in a shaded area.Reading a seed catalog.Starting seeds and transplanting seedlings.Fertilizing your plants.Integrated pest control.How to bring root bound plants back to life.Helpful tips for beginners. This book is perfect for those new to the world of vegetable container gardening. It has all the information you'll need to start your own vegetable garden at home using containers of your choice. In addition to general information about vegetable container gardening, the author discusses 16 common vegetables and gives you the information you need to successfully grow them in containers. Buy "The Vegetable Container Gardening Guide" today and learn what you need to know to start growing your own vegetables in containers

Are you considering raising backyard chickens?
If you are, then this is the book you've been looking for. This valuable guide covers everything you need to know to get started raising a flock of chickens in your backyard.
The following topics are covered in this helpful book: Why you should be raising backyard chickens. The big differences between commercial eggs and the fresh eggs you get from backyard chickens. The handful of supplies you need to get started. Designing a coop. Feeding and watering your chickens. Includes tutorials on how to build an inexpensive waterer and feeder. The various types of bedding. The deep litter system of bedding. Free-range chickens. Breed selection for laying and meat birds. Feeding your chickens. What diatomaceous earth is and how it can benefit you. Predator control. Brooding chicks. How to hatch chicks and raise them to adulthood. Chicken laws and ordinances. Buy "Backyard Chickens: The Beginner's Guide" today and get ready to raise your first flock of chickens now.

Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for the superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art with self-taught horticultural skills. Early influences included William Morris, John Ruskin and William Robinson, but it is her partnership with the architect Edwin Lutyens that produced some of the most distinctive of Edwardian houses and gardens. From her house (and nursery) at Munstead Wood, Surrey, Jekyll designed over 400 gardens across Britain and Europe, and some in America where her archive of designs and drawings is now held. This book explores her life, influences on her early work in art and crafts, the transfer to Munstead Wood and working relationship with Edwin Lutyens, as well as her own writings and achievements.

90 plants that you can plant in your yard as if they were part of the landscape - but have the added benefit of being all or partly edible. This is a much easier and less time consuming approach than planting a vegetable garden. Each plant has 'where to plant' ideas, pictures of the plant, leaf and flower structure, propagation instructions, uses and recipes

In the Garden with the Totterings is a fabulous collection of Annie Tempest's 'Tottering-by-Gently' cartoons around the theme of gardening, which encompasses inter-generational tensions, the differing perspectives of men and women and more. Tottering-by-Gently is a village in the fictional county of North Pimmshire, where Lord and Lady Tottering reside in the fading grandeur of their ancestral home, Tottering Hall. Annie Tempest's cartoons are based on Lord and Lady Tottering (Dicky and Daffy) and their extended family. Her now international following proves that she touches a note of universal truth in her exquisitely detailed and beautifully executed cartoons as she gently laughs with us at the stuff of life.

A beautiful perpetual calendar and month-by-month guide to gardening in New England that you can use year to year to keep tarck of your garden's progress.