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Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Specialized gardening methods
No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual
dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil
structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig
experts, Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set
up a no dig garden. They describe how to: Make compost, enrich
soil, harvest and prepare food and make natural beauty and clean
ing products and garden preparations. These approaches work as well
in small spaces as in large gardens. The Authors' combined
experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the
plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts
and many recipes and ideas for increasing self reliance, saving
money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your
own food, year round. Charles' advice is distilled from 35 years of
growing vegetables intensively and efficiently; he is the
acknowledged no dig guru and salad expert both in the UK and
internationally. Stephanie, a kitchen gardener, grows in her small,
productive home garden and allotment, and creates no dig gardens
for restaurants and private estates.She presents truly delicious
seasonal recipes, made from the vegetables anyone can grow. She
also explains how to use common plants you can grow and forage for
to make handmade preparation for the home and garden.
Forage is a beautifully illustrated celebration of edible plants
that can be found throughout the world. Anybody can enjoy the
increasingly popular back-to-nature activity of foraging. In some
countries these plants are now forgotten as food, but in others
they are still celebrated for their value as nutritious, delicious
ingredients and cooking with wild plants is increasingly being
adopted by mainstream restaurants. Journeying through 50 globally
populated edible plants, Forage explores the culture and history of
our wild food. Stunning botanical illustrations by artist Rachel
Pedder-Smith accompany each plant, alongside recipes inspired by
the regions of the world where they are most celebrated.
The New Wild Garden combines new approaches to a more naturalistic
design with the practical side of growing wildflowers and shows how
to incorporate wildflowers, real meadows and a looser prarie-style
planting into gardens and wild spaces. With serious concern into
the decline of pollinators and habitats, meadows are currently the
focus of enormous creativity. Gardeners, wildlife lovers,
professional designers and seed manufacturers are all pushing the
envelope of what can be grown, the pictorial effects that can be
achieved, and the benefits that this provides for gardeners and
wildlife. This book includes 15 step-by-step projects and an
essential plant list, as well as offering inspiration to gardeners
and an overview of the most influential movement in garden design
over recent decades. In this book you can learn: * How to sow or
plant meadow to suit your space * Planting plans for every plot
size: from a container, small patch, allotment or an acre * How to
grow and propagate more than 50 kinds of wildflowers * Understand
and emulate the new natural style followed by designers * Meadow
recipes for every soil, situation and wildlife habitat.
This book is two things: the product of my lifelong work
conceiving, developing, and growing the E-Myth way into a business
model that has been applied to every imaginable kind of company in
the world, as well as a product of Tony's extraordinary experience
and success in applying the E-Myth to the development of his
equally extraordinary enterprise, Super Lawn Technologies, Inc.
Landscape designing isn’t so much about rules that guarantee creation of the ‘perfect design every time’, but rather about a series of guidelines and suggestions that will help you save time and money, as well as generally reduce the frustrations resulting from many design forms.
Landscape Design for the Home Owner is a book filled with such guidelines, some for the new home owner to help with the many ‘first time garden’ situations and pitfalls that tend to arise, as well as some for the more experienced home owner who is being challenged with alterations, changes in garden styles or themes or simply looking at old sites in a new light.
Combine this with dozens of ideas, plant and hard landscape suggestions, as well as numerous beautiful photographs, it becomes a book that will help the informed, adventurous, beginner or even laid-back home owner to create beautiful and distinctive surroundings to their homes.
Beautifully and simply set out, it takes the home owner through a series of logical yet important steps intended to make garden designing a joy rather than a mystery or frustration – dealing with such aspects as site analysis, plant functions and choices, hard landscape options, thoughts on garden revamping, as well as realistic scenarios for costing a project and pointers on where to find professional assistance if stuck with a problem. Aspects such as water-saving concepts, ways to encourage wild life, and thoughts on environmental or regional approaches to garden design are also included. A list of current invader plants and useful contacts in South Africa are also included for the reader’s convenience.
The follow up to the Sunday Times bestselling Clean and Green and
Green Living Made Easy, former Great British Bake Off winner Nancy
Birtwhistle's third book is a guide to gardening and growing at
home, all with a sustainable, eco-friendly outlook and suffused
with the author's customary passion, knowledge, and warmth. Whether
you have a sprawling garden, a modest patch of grass or just a
spare windowsill, The Green Gardening Handbook will help you make
the most of your space, and what it can grow. The book is split
into the four seasons and provides information on everything from
when to plant potatoes, what sort of fertiliser to use and the
plethora of foods that can be grown from tiny pots in your kitchen.
It features seasonal recipes and guides to storing and preserving,
tips for getting kids involved and excited about where food comes
from and provides a blueprint for embracing the joy of growing and
eating from your own garden - and reducing your carbon footprint in
the process. Packed with advice on composting, clothing and basic
equipment, and demonstrating the mental and physical benefits of
gardening, The Green Gardening Handbook is underlined by Nancy's
belief that once we understand the seasons we can live a healthier
lifestyle that in turn will ensure our planet stays healthy too.
How clever would it be to grow all the ingredients for an entire
tasty dish in one garden pot? Well now you can, with The One-Pot
Gourmet Gardener, which takes 25 contemporary and classic recipes
and shows how to grow their ingredients in one chic container. Grow
each recipe in one pot and serve them in another! The container
recipes are arranged by eating event from picnics to snacks to main
courses and puddings, with drinks and dressings to accompany. Enjoy
refreshing chilled Gazpacho, followed by tasty Courgette and Fennel
Tart with healthy Micro-Veg Salad, topped off with delicious Summer
Pudding, and washed down with Pimms Jelly. The one-pot recipes are
for beginners and more experienced gardeners and cooks, and include
a full step by step masterclass to sowing, growing and harvesting.
Jason Ingram won Photographer of the Year at the Garden Media Guild
Awards, 2014
Steven and Susan show how to create a range of useful structures
and furnishings, both large and small, at relatively little expense
by using mostly recycled materials. The first chapters show the
kinds of materials used and their possible uses; the next
demonstrate some basic making skills. The book then showcases a
variety of projects, including structures like a garden shed/studio
and a recycled deck, as well as smaller items of garden furniture,
such as garden chairs and tables, as well as various forms of
storage. Each project includes step-by- step construction
techniques with illustrations.
Grow your own cut flowers and you can fill your house with the
gorgeous colours and heavenly scents of your favourite blooms,
knowing that they haven't travelled thousands of miles - and you
can make money while you do it! Combining boundless passion with
down-to-earth guidance and practical advice, Georgie Newbery draws
on her own experiences as an artisan flower farmer and florist as
she takes you through: * how to start a cut-flower patch * what to
grow * cutting, conditioning and presenting cut flowers * creating
a hedgerow Christmas * starting a cut-flower business * where to
sell * marketing and social media * a flower farmer's year planner.
Whether you want to grow for your own pleasure or start your own
business, The Flower Farmer's Year is the perfect guide.
Learn which orchid plants to choose, how to obtain them, and how to
cultivate them, either in a greenhouse or in the home.
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.
This book offers everything readers need to know to grow tasty
organic fruit outdoors - whether in a garden, allotment or on their
window ledge! It is suitable for beginners and includes a
comprehensive directory. This latest title, from a growing and
successful series, is by an UK author. What could be better than
the enjoyment of tasting your own sweet, succulent, home-grown
fruit? Most people have got room to grow some kind of fruit -
whether it be a small apple tree in a front garden, a grape vine up
a trellis or strawberries in a window box. Gardeners seeking a
concise, easy-to-follow approach to fruit growing and maintenance
need look no further; this book will provide all the practical
advice and information that they need. With guidance on which
fruits to choose, when and how to plant, propagate, harvest and
store them, plus a comprehensive directory of popular varieties to
grow - it won't be long before readers are discovering the delights
of their own home-grown organic fruit.
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