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Howard Resh is internationally known as a pioneering hydroponics
researcher: previous editions of this book are known as the "Bible"
of the industry. Comprehensive guide to soilless culture with
extensively new and updated content - perfect for both commercial
and hobby growers. Covers media, lights and nearly every method of
hydroponic gardening, and provides charts, equations, and diagrams
for easy understanding. Presents greenhouse environmental control
systems and examples of sustainable greenhouse technology, and
demonstrates uses of automation and robotics in harvesting,
grading, and packing. Introduces indoor vertical farming, and
vertical growing systems, as well as the expansion of tropical
hydroponics and rooftop greenhouses. Provides information on
automation in large-scale raft culture and nutrient film technique
(NFT) operations in the growing of lettuce, leafy greens, and
herbs.
This inspirational book from Kew's orchid experts reveals the
easiest, most attractive and most popular plants to grow today.
Orchids come from the second largest plant family (with 28,000
members) and have a reputation for diversity and trickiness - but
expert Philip Seaton chooses 60 of the best species to become
permanent and happy members of your home. Through a combination of
12 projects and easy to follow practical advice he shows how to
welcome new plants, to revive their flagging spirits as well as
their basic care and cultivation. He shows how to produce and train
flowers, to collect and sow their seed, and how to plant and
display them in a terrarium, or on bark or in a basket. Find out
when to water them, how to repot them and the ideal room and
conditions that each orchid needs to thrive. The combination of
botanical beauty and practical advice will inspire beginners and
experienced growers to grow new species in many different ways.
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 Herbs, Guide to Growing Roses,
Guide to Growing Succulents and Cacti, Guide to Growing Trees,
Guide to Growing Vegetables and Guide to Growing House Plants.
'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times We have to
learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first
step is to start looking after the insects, the little creatures
that make our shared world go round. Insects are essential for life
as we know it - without them, our world would look vastly
different. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research and a
lifetime's study, Dave Goulson reveals the long decline of insect
populations that has taken place in recent decades and its
potential consequences. Eye-opening and inspiring, Silent Earth
asks for profound change at every level and a passionate argument
or us to love, respect and care for our six-legged friends.
'Compelling - Silent Earth is a wake-up call' Isabella Tree, author
of Wilding 'Enlightening, urgent and funny, Goulson's book is a
timely call for action' New Statesman
A one-stop treasure trove from the experts at RHS that covers every
aspect of gardening! Dreaming of having the perfect garden? Does it
have a vegetable patch? Classic borders or flowers to attract
wildlife? A picturesque garden for all to marvel at is achievable
with this gardening guide giving you the vital tools to achieve
whatever you desire for your dream garden. Delve into this concise
and practical guide to find all the gardening ideas and advice you
need to create a spectacular, thriving garden. Here's what you'll
find inside: - A comprehensive guide covering everything from
growing in containers to planting a garden from scratch - Fully
illustrated with detailed step-by-steps and inspirational gardening
ideas - Detailed beginner's guide to garden design, including
step-by-step instructions for simple hard landscaping such as
building a raised bed, creating a pond, or laying a patio - Covers
all aspects of planting styles, including "recipes" to make the
most of different types of plants - Easy-to-follow guides on how to
water, feed, prune and propagate your garden - Advice on
problem-solving and controlling weeds and pests - A chapter full of
Plant Chooser galleries to help you grow the right plant in the
right place at the right time Learn how to plan, sow, plant, and
protect your garden throughout the year with expert tips and
techniques that will see your garden flourish. Discover how to
design with plants by using colour and texture to create
inspirational displays, and keep them at their best with
jargon-free guides to pruning and preventing pests and diseases.
Undertake a new endeavour of DIY landscaping projects, which
include laying your own patio or lawn, or building a raised bed
ready for you to grow your own fruit and vegetables. Choose from a
catalogue of hundreds of different ornamental plants to find
varieties that will thrive in your garden's climate and provide
seasonal interest throughout the year. The Complete Gardener's
Manual is the perfect all-around practical book for gardening
beginners, also for those looking for a step up from a beginners'
gardening book.
Offering a broad perspective on how to make the best of the
precious resource of water in your garden, this book reveals how
conserving water in your garden does not necessarily restrict the
gardener to dry gravel beds, but can also involve lawns, leafy
crops, and flowery borders. Topics covered include the natural
science of water-efficient gardening, choosing a style and design,
water-efficient plants, and techniques to save on water.
In this beautiful book, Diana Yakeley shows how to choose and use
plants to the best effect, taking into account scale and
proportion, style and placement, form and shape, colour, scent and
texture. A section on interior ideas explores a range of different
rooms and the plants that are most suited to them. There then
follows a chapter on planting schemes, including 6 step-by-step
projects that reveal how to create your own special displays. The
practical aspects of indoor gardening are covered in the final
chapter, which contains information on light levels and humidity,
potting and pruning, problem busting, containers and tools. There
is also a directory, which gives detailed horticultural information
on a range of different plants.
Making a garden that can withstand summer drought without being
watered is the dream of many who wish to garden in harmony with the
environment. In this classic work on gardening in dry climates,
first published in 2008, Olivier Filippi offers practical advice to
achieve this goal based on his, and his wife Clara's, experience of
working with mediterranean-region plants for over 30 years. The
first part of the book examines the behaviour of plants that face
drought in their natural habitat. What is drought and how do plants
manage to survive when little water is available? The second part
is concerned with gardening techniques in a dry climate. How do you
prepare the soil, when do you plant, how do you maintain a dry
garden? The third and longest part describes in detail no less than
500 rewarding plants that are marvellously well adapted to dry
gardens. This book is essential reading for gardeners who live in
one of the world's mediterranean climate zones and will also be of
interest to gardeners in areas where drought is becoming a
recurring problem. Armed with a new palette of plants and liberated
from the hose and the sprinkler this book invites you on a
pioneering adventure that paves the way to a new style of
gardening.
Howard Resh is internationally known as a pioneering hydroponics
researcher: previous editions of this book are known as the "Bible"
of the industry. Comprehensive guide to soilless culture with
extensively new and updated content - perfect for both commercial
and hobby growers. Covers media, lights and nearly every method of
hydroponic gardening, and provides charts, equations, and diagrams
for easy understanding. Presents greenhouse environmental control
systems and examples of sustainable greenhouse technology, and
demonstrates uses of automation and robotics in harvesting,
grading, and packing. Introduces indoor vertical farming, and
vertical growing systems, as well as the expansion of tropical
hydroponics and rooftop greenhouses. Provides information on
automation in large-scale raft culture and nutrient film technique
(NFT) operations in the growing of lettuce, leafy greens, and
herbs.
In this book, pioneering nurseryman Olivier Filippi offers
low-level planting designs that are eco-friendly and so beautiful
they redefine the conventional distinction between lawn and plant
borders. Inspired by the wild plant communities of Europe, the
Middle East, and the USA, these rigorously trialled plant
combinations can be used on terraces, paths, gravel beds and flower
borders, as well as on areas that are traditionally laid to lawn.
With a plant directory that lists over 200 tough but beautiful dry
garden plants and Filippi's innovative maintenance techniques, this
is the perfect companion to his first book The Dry Gardening
Handbook and will delight all dry garden owners.
Bring butterflies back is a follow-up to the much acclaimed bring
nature back to your garden by the same authors. It is unique in
being the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information
on all indigenous South African butterfly larval food-plants. The
book emphasises the contribution people can make to nature by
actually providing food for caterpillars, giving practical
examples. It includes a chapter with the Latin and common names of
all our approximately 670 butterfly species. There is an intriguing
further chapter on bizarre butterfly lifestyles: few people know,
for example, that some butterfly larvae are carnivorous and abuse
the hospitality of ants which host them, by eating their
unsuspecting offspring. Most useful are descriptions of over 500
plants selected by our butterflies themselves. All known indigenous
larval food-plants are included.
"Society does not generally expect its farmers to be visionaries."
Perhaps not, but longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall
does possess a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way
from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to
exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a
better, more resilient place. In Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to
Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening, Bonsall maintains that to achieve
real wealth we first need to understand the economy of the land, to
realize that things that might make sense economically don't always
make sense ecologically, and vice versa. The marketplace distorts
our values, and our modern dependence on petroleum in particular
presents a serious barrier to creating a truly sustainable
agriculture. For him the solution is, first and foremost, greater
self-reliance, especially in the areas of food and energy. By
avoiding any off-farm inputs (fertilizers, minerals, and animal
manures), Bonsall has learned how to practice a purely veganic, or
plant-based, agriculture-not from a strictly moralistic or
philosophical perspective, but because it makes good business
sense: spend less instead of making more. What this means in
practical terms is that Bonsall draws upon the fertility of on-farm
plant materials: compost, green manures, perennial grasses, and
forest products like leaves and ramial wood chips. And he grows and
harvests a diversity of crops from both cultivated and perennial
plants: vegetables, grains, pulses, oilseeds, fruits and nuts-even
uncommon but useful permaculture plants like groundnut (Apios). In
a friendly, almost conversational way, Bonsall imparts a wealth of
knowledge drawn from his more than forty years of farming
experience. "My goal," he writes, "is not to feed the world, but to
feed myself and let others feed themselves. If we all did that, it
might be a good beginning."
Learn how to grow wild and exotic, medicinally important,
sustainable, and deeply delicious mushrooms right at your own home,
just as people throughout the world have been doing for centuries.
Mushrooms are healthy, packed with vitamins and antioxidants; rich
with flavor, an excellent source of the fifth flavor know as umami;
and can be used medicinally in teas and tinctures. By growing your
own, you can enjoy these benefits while also enriching your soil,
speeding up your composting, and even suppressing weeds-though the
biggest draw may be the magic of watching this unique form of life
grow. Understanding how mushrooms grow is crucial to successfully
cultivating them, and Mushroom Cultivation offers photo-illustrated
instruction both on how mushrooms grow and how you can cultivate
them yourself, with a focus on six types of mushroom-shiitake,
oyster, wine cap, hericium, blewit, and agaricus. You'll learn how
to: Grow mushrooms, step by step, in a variety of different
mediums: logs, straw, wood chips and sawdust, and compost
Troubleshoot problems, including identification, underwatering,
overwatering, and insects Store, dry, and freeze your mushroom
harvest Cook with mushrooms, including variety-specific cooking
tips and 8 tasty recipes Find supplies and more information with
the resources listed at the back of the book After reading Mushroom
Cultivation, you'll discover that growing a mushroom is really no
more difficult than growing a tomato. You just need a slightly
different set of skills. Picking your own fresh mushrooms at the
peak of their flavor and nutrition is within your reach with this
comprehensive, step-by-step guide.
Build healthy soil and grow better plants Robert Pavlis, a gardener
for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the
rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement
program in this three-part popular science guidebook. Healthy soil
means thriving plants. Yet untangling the soil food web and
optimizing your soil health is beyond most gardeners, many of whom
lack an in-depth knowledge of the soil ecosystem. Soil Science for
Gardeners is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding
soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer
of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, so vital to plant
health. Coverage includes: Soil biology and chemistry and how
plants and soil interact Common soil health problems, including
analyzing soil's fertility and plant nutrients The creation of a
personalized plan for improving your soil fertility, including
setting priorities and goals in a cost-effective, realistic time
frame. Creating the optimal conditions for nature to do the heavy
lifting of building soil fertility Written for the home gardener,
market gardener, and micro-farmer, Soil Science for Gardeners is
packed with information to help you grow thriving plants.
Go beneath the soil with this hand-drawn guide! This book is sure
to become your go-to reference for all things bonsai. Beautifully
illustrated with details and views a camera simply can't show,
Introduction to Bonsai offers a unique and insightful look at these
mini ecosystems. This complete guide contains all the information
you need to create and maintain your own bonsai: Handy monthly
bonsai maintenance schedules detail proper watering, pruning,
wiring, transplanting and other upkeep activities throughout the
year Leaves, fruits, flowers, and processes are presented up-close
to help make growing and upkeep as successful and simple as
possible Diagrams show where, how much, and in what direction
pruning, wiring, watering and other maintenance should be performed
Clear, detailed illustrations of every part of the bonsai ensure
that you'll see everything you need to see, exactly as you need to
see it--making this a great resource for collectors and enthusiasts
at all levels Learn the specific ways to care for more than 40
types of popular bonsai trees, including: Flowering Bonsai--cherry
blossom, dogwood, azalea and lilac Fruiting Bonsai--crab apple,
persimmon, Chinese quince and burning bush Coniferous and Deciduous
Bonsai--maple, Japanese beech, black pine and salt cedar Prepared
by the editors of Japan's popular Bonsai Sekai (Bonsai World)
magazine,this handbook is designed to make care and maintenance
easy for bonsai beginners--from seeds to root systems and from
basic watering to your first transplant.
When both her children left home in the same week, Karen Moloney
asked her architect husband to build them a house in Spain in an
attempt to give them a joint project. This book tells the story of
how they created a paradise garden following the verses laid down
in the Quran, how they revived their north London garden and in the
process, learned how to accept their differences.
A plant a day brings beauty your way. So why not make the most of
your garden with 365 of the very best plant varieties - one for
every day of the year! From spring blooms to winter interest and
everything in between, each plant has been personally selected by
expert horticulturist Phil Clayton, who draws on his nearly 20
years of RHS experience, along with his own garden favourites, to
showcase a vast array of planting choices. With a range of plants
as broad as Phil's knowledge is vast, A Plant for Every Day of the
Year is like taking a walk with an accomplished gardener as they
show you their favourite plants. Each profile comes complete with
stunning photography and an at-a-glance guide to height, spread,
hardiness, and other must-know information, so you too can make the
most of every season in your own garden. Turn the pages of this
plant book to discover: - Unique structure gives the reader a whole
year of plants, day by day. - Phil Clayton's unrivalled knowledge
and personal approach are apparent throughout, allowing the reader
to absorb his experience and expertise. - Easy-to-follow text and
clear photography present the plants in an accessible and enjoyable
format. A must-have volume for existing gardeners and plant lovers
who want to enjoy Phil's personal and insightful commentary on a
wide range of plants, alongside individuals who don't know what
plants to grow and want to seek advice from a reputable gardener
such as Phil. Doubling up as the perfect gardening book for budding
botanists, who are looking to achieve their garden or indoor
space's fullest potential all year round, A Plant For Every Day of
the Year is sure to delight.
Mediterranean garrigue landscapes are extraordinarily beautiful:
alternating mounds of silver and green, textured leaves, flashes of
colour and intoxicating scents combine to delight the senses and
rival any cultivated garden with half the work. This book offers
inspiration and expert advice on growing the plants and adopting a
new more natural way of gardening. Mediterranean plants are diverse
and adapted to a wide range of environments and weather conditions.
They are of course ideally suited to regions which experience long
periods of seasonal drought but many will also withstand periods of
high rainfall and extreme cold making this book essential reading
for temperate-zone gardeners seeking the Mediterranean look. Some
understanding of plant ecology is essential for success and Filippi
shares his expert knowledge acquired from decades of research. How
a plant interacts with its environment, other plants, and other
living things indicates what it needs to flourish in a garden
setting. Filippi's pioneering approach makes for a much closer
relationship between gardener and nature that puts few demands on
natural resources. Over 400 fascinating photographs capture the
effortless beauty of natural plant communities and show gardeners
how different gardens can be.
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