Learn sustainable farming techniques. Includes brief overviews of organic gardening with permaculture and biodynamic farming techniques. Perfect for WWOOFers and aspiring gardeners. Written on the Big Island of Hawaii with a humorous slant on how you can just recycle everything until it finally just biodegrades. Perfect for anyone wanting a kick of the launch pad into the world of self reliance and self discovery. A fun way to finally start gardening and stop procrastinating.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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Medical marijuana patients in the 14 states (at the time of this writing) that currently allow medical marijuana use now have an eBook guide to getting by with just a few plants. "How to Grow Medical Marijuana: An in-Depth Quick Grow Guide: with over 155 full-color photos/illustrations" is a very different "how-to-grow marijuana" book. Most of the instructions, currently available in book or DVD form assume the buyer wishes to grow a large and illegal amount of marijuana. This book based on Curran's DVD shows patients how to get by with the few plants that state laws allow marijuana patients. Previously, any medical marijuana patient who wanted to get by with a few plants had to do some very serious mental arithmetic. In addition, those would be growers had to choose between a variety of methods, soil, soil-less or hydroponics which could make the task if not somewhat intimidating, at least so choice heavy that there is too much room for error. Learn How to Grow Medical Marijuana: An in-Depth Quick Grow Guide: with over 155 full-color photos/illustrations, addresses, one very specific method of growing that anyone can master. David Curran, author of The Complete Ginseng Grower's Manual, and an agricultural writer for many years, became a medical marijuana user in 2010 after four years of increasing pain from chronic kidney stones. Says Curran, "I would sit on my couch and take codeine all day and if I barely moved I could get by without too much pain. The pain was so bad I would heat clay or rice heating pads, and put them on my side. I would get them so hot they left permanent scars, but at least the heat relieved some of the pain. Then a friend suggested medical marijuana. Before long the kidney stone pain was gone. I could walk around and do things again. Medical marijuana gave me my life back." One of the things Curran was able to do was create a video on how to focus on growing just enough medical marijuana for one patient's needs. This book is based on the video. Instead of covering every single method of growing, Curran picked one. According to Curran (an agricultural writer with many years of experience), the soil-less method is the easiest for anyone to master. This book chooses soil-less with a specific soil mixture, which has the advantages of hydroponics without the risks. (if you make a mistake with hydroponics all your plants may die) And presents an almost foolproof method of growing that almost anyone can master, using both CFLs and LED lights and sunlight when possible. The book covers everything from mixing the soil-less mix to how to create two small (2 x 2 x 6) grow sheds to provide a person's medical needs with only 6 plants. There is a myth out there that only sunlight or expensive (high powered-energy consuming) sodium lamps can grow quality medicine. According to Curran it is true plants grown with LED light will not grow as "tall" as with Sodium lights (Would you really want to try and grow 16 foot plants in your apartment?), but the quality of the medicine will be as potent as the plant can provide using any other method. Curran who suffered from the intense pain of kidney stones, can attest to the method providing quality medicine from experience. The book is intended only for medical marijuana patients in the states which allow it, or their agents and by purchasing this book you indicate that you are a medical licensed marijuana patient or the agent thereof.

Many gardeners look for other ways to experiment with their gardening and other gardeners look for ways to grow vegetables and fruit in small confined areas. With 'Growing Upside Down Tomato Plants' you will be able to do just that - experiment and grow in a confined area. Needless to say there are tricks to being successful with any gardening technique and in this book you will find out how to set up a planter and how to maintain it to its optimum performance.

Guerrilla Yardwork: The First-Time Home Owner's Handbook rethinks yardwork as you know it. Part manifesto, part field manual, it draws upon the tenets of guerrilla warfare outlined by Sun Tzu, Che Guevara, and others, to introduce guerrilla yardwork as both a yardvolutionary philosophy and an effective practice for every first-time home owner strapped for cash and pressed for time. "Guerrilla yardwork utilizes the element of surprise to launch small, repetitive attacks at unpredictable times and locations around the yard to weaken Bad Nature and promote Good Nature in Her stead. Offensive, highly mobile, and fluid in character, guerrilla yardwork is marked by swift action of short duration, followed by rapid withdrawal." The yard won't know what hit it. Start your yardvolution at GuerrillaYardwork.com.

This is another "Professor Grow Guide," part of a series of books dedicated to helping people grow successfully. Growing Sativa is a step-by-step guide aimed at Medical Marijuana patients and caregivers. It covers all the basics so a beginning grower can set up and grow their medicine safely and cost effectively. The authors go into detail on how to set up a good clean growing area, practice preventative maintenance, and detect nutrient deficiencies. They give you instructions to help keep your indoor grow safe, inexpensive and under the radar. There are defined schedules for lighting, watering and fertilizing the plants, to help people who don't want to go through trial-and-error. And Professor Grow tells you how to save money by building your own dehumidifier, odor neutralizer, and more. They even tell you how to time your harvest if you don't know the flowering period of your Sativa strain. The glossary of terms is very extensive and provides the new grower with definitions of the many terms that are bandied about when talking about growing.

This is another "Professor Grow Guide," part of a series of books dedicated to helping people grow successfully. Growing Indica is a step-by-step guide aimed at Medical Marijuana patients and caregivers. It covers all the basics so a beginning grower can set up and grow their medicine safely and cost effectively. The authors go into detail on how to set up a good clean growing area, practice preventative maintenance, and detect nutrient deficiencies. They give you instructions to help keep your indoor grow safe, inexpensive and under the radar. There are defined schedules for lighting, watering and fertilizing the plants, to help people who don't want to go through trial-and-error. And Professor Grow tells you how to save money by building your own dehumidifier, odor neutralizer, and more. They even tell you how to time your harvest if you don't know the flowering period of your Indica strain. The glossary of terms is very extensive and provides the new grower with definitions of the many terms that are bandied about when talking about growing.

The book was written with the home gardener in mind, the one who wants to build a hydroponic system or two to grow their plants. 'COMPLETE HYDROPONIC GARDENING BOOK: 6 DIY garden set upsfor growing vegetables, strawberries, lettuce, herbs and more' explains how to build 6 different types of systems to suit YOUR needs. 'COMPLETE HYDROPONIC GARDENING BOOK: 6 DIY garden set ups for growing vegetables, strawberries, lettuce, herbs and more' will provide you with a full insight into growing using the hydroponic system. (I am not a photographer so please excuse the fact that I have used commercial photos to show you what I am talking about. You wouldn't want to see the ones I did take ) Hydroponics allows home gardeners to: * Grow a lot of product in a small area * Grow indoors if the weather is not suitable outside * Grow at a height that allows for easy access * Grow a wide variety for home use in just a small area * Grow in areas like courtyards and rooftops where it has always been a problem to grow plants * Have organic fruit and vegetables * Easily monitor the nutrients the different plants require * Easily tend to their garden at any time day or night

This booklet is designed to be easily understood, and basic information about soil fertility in the context of gardening. It includes information about soil components, soil texture and macro & micro nutrients. It also contains information about compost and manures.

Aquaponics is a method of growing fish and vegetables in a simple recirculating system. This book is designed and written to provide basic information and direction for people interested in building a backyard aquaponics system. It is NOT a "how-to" manual listing parts and with step-by-step procedures, but it's more like a conversation that you might have with a good friend about how he built his system. It is written to be easily understandable and includes lots of pictures and graphics. NOTE: This 8"x10" version contains the same information as other editions only the physical size has changed.

My goal in producing this book is basically what I have been doing all my professional life - sharing science based information to anyone who wants to learn. There are many gardening books and websites. Many are based on opinion and experience. These two characteristics are good, but even better when backed by scientific research. In this book, I share information that has been substantiated by scientific research. If it is my opinion, I will simply say so, but you won't find much of that. The information I convey is either based on research I have conducted or am familiar with or information which I have gathered from various university websites. This material is mostly applicable to the tropical and subtropical world.

Wisconsin Garden's amazing seasonal ideas and approach to organic gardening including timely tips, to create your own prolific garden. We'll discuss tools, plant selections, making compost, container gardening, harvesting your veggies, and many more essential lessons turning you into a passionate gardener who'll enjoy getting dirty with Mother Nature. Imagine the joy and pride that comes from picking your own fresh and tasty treats delivered from your garden to your kitchen table. Talk about spending quality time with your family, friends, and neighbors For garden enthusiast, it doesn't get better than this. After a long cold winter in Wisconsin we are already anticipating the warm air of spring and looking forward to this year's amazing harvest and access all of our new garden video blogs posted on www.WIgarden.com. It's time to eat healthier foods by planting your garden filled with delicious, herbs, fruits, vegetables and flowers. "Let's Get Dirty" and have fun growing healthy home-grown foods right now

Hydroponic Handbook describes how the 6 commonly used hydroponic growing methods work, how to prepare and use nutrient solution formulations that will ensure plant nutrient element sufficiency, and how these hydroponic growing methods can be utilized under varying environmental growing conditions. The material is presented in a format that can be easily followed and understood by the professional grower and beginner.

Ever wondered why supermarket potatoes are so bland and boring? In the Andes, where potatoes originate, there are thousands of varieties with bright colours, beautiful markings, unusual shapes and variations of flavour and cooking quality. In the modern world, industrialised monoculture has reduced all this diversity down to a handful of near identical varieties. However, it's incredibly easy to grow potatoes from seed, and every seed is full of unexplored diversity. Best known for her Daughter of the Soil blog, Rebsie Fairholm gives clear and practical instructions for how to make seeds from potato berries, how to cross different varieties, how to choose which ones to experiment with, and how to keep your newly created varieties growing into the future. She gives examples from her own experiences with all kinds of potatoes, from ordinary garden varieties to historic Scottish heirlooms and rare Andean landraces, and explores the different colour possibilities, from orange flesh to purple flesh. Our ancestors created their own vegetable varieties in their gardens and took it for granted as a completely normal thing to do; and then the commercial age came along and changed our habits, and so it became something of a lost art. This unique book is a small step towards changing that.

Everything you need to know about building your own hydroponic garden system Complete instruction with detailed pictures on how to build 4 different types of hydroponic systems. If you are new to hydroponics, we recommend starting with the small ebb and flow system. It is easy to build and works well both indoors or outdoors. Once you have the feel of adjusting the flood cycle, controlling the ph level you may the feel prepared for a larger MPT Tray System, NFT System or a Top Feeding System. The plans in the DIY Hydroponics Systems Builders Guide will provide you with all the information needed to build your own systems. In most cases, once you obtain the tools and materials necessary you simply follow the detailed pictures to assemble the systems. Most of the required materials can be purchased at your local home builder supply store such as Home Depot or Lowe's. You can also purchase parts and supplies online through hydroponics and garden suppliers for which we have provided a list. When using this manual, it is not necessary to follow each step and measurements precisely. Use these instructions as a guide. Be creative and flexible, adjust the plans to create your own custom system. For example, you may find a container that you believe would make a good reservoir or growing tray, but the size is not exactly the same as in the plans. Simply adjust the PVC pipes used to hold the tray to fit your container. Once you understand the basic principles, you should be able to modify and create many variations of the systems in this guide. If you get stuck or have any questions, please email me using the contact form on my website: diyhydroponics.com Good luck and have fun

This guide is designed to walk the reader through all aspects of growing Cannabis indoors hydroponically. Topics such as safety, acquiring seeds, building the system, and pulling everything together are covered.

Environmentally friendly buildings are a must for our future. Among the many new ideas for buildings are green roofs. But what is a green roof? How do they work? Why are individuals and businesses installing them? And how do you install and maintain a green roof? This book answers all these questions and more.

Palms that grow in Canada? Bananas that overwinter in Michigan? How about southern crape myrtles that flower in Birmingham, England, instead of Birmingham, Alabama? Although the voice of authority -- and nursery labels -- might say, "You can't grow those plants here," author Dave Francko has a different message for gardeners: "Plants can't read the information on their tags." Laced with humorous anecdotes and based on years of first-hand observations and research, this book provides real-world information to help adventurous gardeners grow plants they never before dreamed possible. Nobody who reads this book will ever look at a plant label the same way again.

Q & A for Deep South Gardeners, Second Edition, by Nellie Neal Gardeners in the Deep South are faced with everything from overgrown kudzu to extreme weather and unpredictable seasons. Conditions here don't bear much resemblance to those described in most other garden books. But more help for Deep South gardeners is here, with Nellie Neal's book of real questions from gardeners who call her on her live radio show, and their answers, in a new edition. Nellie is known as the GardenMama to her listeners, and she cuts to the chase with succinct, effective advice on finding the best suited plants, simplifying garden chores, keeping plants looking healthy and great, and working with Mother Nature. She hears her favorite compliment often-"Your advice really works." It can work for you. Chapters cover fall, winter, spring, and summer, each with a chores and tips for the season, and questions straight from the talk show. This second edition adds month-by- month pruning tips and plenty of new questions with their witty and wonderful answers. "Nellie Neal's gardening advice is as southern as live oaks festooned with Spanish moss. With wit and wisdom she answers tough questions gleaned from years of give and take with southern gardeners. From turnip greens to tropical hibiscus...if you have a question, she has the answer " -Jim Wilson, Author and former co-host, The Victory Garden, PBS.

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