This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in Southern California and provides basic care and maintenance for each.
With additional chapters detailing the most common gardening problems and recommendations for effective, nontoxic ways of dealing with them, this book is nothing short of essential.
Explains the fundamentals of gardening and offers practical advice on growing a variety of plants in the mild climate of California
Michael VanderBrug answers all these questions and more. Whether you are just starting your season or looking for ways to extend it, this is your guide to producing a bountiful, year-round harvest in the Midwest.
In this book, we show how, with just a little effort, you can augment your landscape with edibles of every description in an environmentally sustainable manner: * Veggie favorites: tomatoes, lettuce, carrots, beans and onions * Berries: ...
Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii Cooper's hawks, also called chicken hawks, are ambush predators, flying swiftly between trees, over hedges, and around buildings to surprise and catch prey—small birds like finches and starlings and ...
This book includes more than 60 fruits, vegetables, and herbs selected for growing success in the diverse growing conditions of Northeast gardens.
Another interesting bamboo-like building substitute could be Arundo donax, a noxious Mediterranean reed now destroying native riparian wetlands. Be careful that the reed is fully cured, or you may get more Arundo donax than you ...
The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Mountain States tackles this need head on, with regionally specific growing information written by local gardening expert, Mary Ann Newcomer.
The Pacific Northwest Gardener's Book of Lists is the definitive gardening guide for gardeners in this area.
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