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61) Apples
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Information on apples for every occasion, covering dessert, cooking and cider varieties. Delicious recipes on everything from apple crumble to making cider. Packed with practical advice on growing and picking your own apples. Everyone wants to eat local, home-grown fruit and vegetables and this helpful guide is a wonderful sourcebook of the quintessential English fruit – the apple. Covering a range of apple varieties that can be found growing in...
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How To Grow Green Beans is a perfect start to growing fresh organic food for yourself and your family and friends. There are many different types of beans and depending on your climate, you may be able to grow some of the more exotic varieties. How to grow Green Beans will help you grow green beans that can be grown pretty much anywhere.
This guide includes a little about green beans and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
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There are loads of different varieties of onions that can be grown in the home garden, or in containers or pots if space is limited. - Everyday kitchen onions- Large Spanish onions- Spring onions- Everlasting onions- Tree onions- Red onions- ShallotsTree Onions, or Japanese onions, grow above ground on plants that look like small onion trees! They do have particular growing requirements. But for everyday onions, this mini-book is an instant reference...
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With today's increasing food and health-related issues, the idea of growing vegetables right at your backyard seems to be a promising solution to improve overall health. Homegrown vegetables do not contain any harmful pesticides that greatly contribute to people's worsening health problems. Planning your garden indoors or outdoors can be feasible with the raised bed gardening technique. Home gardening provides a lot of benefits which includes a fresh...
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Aquaponic gardening is a symbiotic gardening system that relies upon both flora and fauna to create a balanced ecosystem for harvesting both fish and plant material. It requires a larger amount of setup and investment than a standard hydroponic system, but contains benefits over it that we will address later on, it as well is less dependent upon outside addition of nutrients or material to maintain its optimal operation level.
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How To Grow Potatoes. Potatoes are so common in the western diet that we imagine they've been around forever. But although evidence suggests potatoes were used around 500BC, the potato had a bad reputation for many centuries and was thought by some cultures to be an evil vegetable.
The leaves, stems and fruits of the potato plant are poisonous so the reputation stuck for a while. Potatoes aren't particularly attractive to look at either, BUT they...
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Garlic has fascinated gardeners for thousands of years, and no wonder! Flavorful, beautiful and easy to grow, garlic is also one of the simplest edibles to store. This concise book will help you choose the best types of garlic to grow in your region and explains how to prepare the planting bed, grow the crop, and finally harvest and cure your beautiful homegrown garlic. Written by award-winning garden writer Barbara Pleasant (Mother Earth News, Starter...
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The virtues of organic food have long been apparent. But what many people don't realize is that they can grow their own--no matter how small their space. Whether you've got a backyard, rooftop, or patio, or are restricted to window boxes or hanging baskets, the joy and satisfaction of organic gardening can be yours. From planning a garden, to deciding what to plant, to the best methods of chemical-free pest and disease control, this definitive guide...
69) Vegetable Forcing: Containing Information on Greenhouse Construction, Management and Frame Culture
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This antiquarian volume comprises a detailed guide to vegetable forcing, with information on greenhouse construction, general management, frame culture, and much more besides. Vegetable forcing is the production of vegetables in greenhouses, hotbeds, coldframes, or other structures. Complete with simple instructions and a wealth of information conducive to successful vegetable forcing, this text will be of considerable value to those with an interest...
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In this stunning collection of memories, Dixie Shoopman recounts moments she has spent in and around gardens, learning not only about growing vegetables and flowers, but also about stories, love, and life. Through snapping of beans to building a cathedral of plants, we can hear the magical rhythms that come with digging in the soil, alone or not.
This beautiful book reminds us of the treasures we store in our memories, and the importance of putting...
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Hydroponic gardening is a method for growing plant material for consumption primarily, but can also be used for an aesthetic garden if desired. It has a high yield potential with not as much effort required as compared to traditional gardening, but the initial setup of the system as a whole does require a higher initial investment.
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There are probably thousands, or at least hundreds, of different varieties of lettuce that can be grown at home, from red-tinged leaves to Cos varieties. There's no reason why you couldn't be growing a few lettuces in the garden, or in containers or pots if space is limited.There are four main types of lettuce, including the cut-and-come again varieties - harvest a few leaves off one plant every day and the plant will be encouraged to produce more...
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How To Grow Broccoli is a perfect start to growing fresh organic food for yourself and your family and friends. Broccoli has a great reputation as a super food and there's no reason why you couldn't be growing fresh organic varieties of broccoli in a small space or even in a container.
This guide includes a little about broccoli and healthy reasons why you should include it in your diet.
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Que vous souhaitiez découvrir les meilleurs légumes à cultiver ou apprendre comment les conserver toute l'année : ce livre est là pour vour aider ! Voici un aperçu de ce que vous aller découvrir...BIEN S'ÉQUIPER; UN POTAGER À LA MAISON; LE JARDIN COMMUNAUTAIRE; COMMENCER SON POTAGER EN QUELQUES ÉTAPES; LES MEILLEURS LÉGUMES À CULTIVER; CONSERVER VOS LÉGUMES TOUTE L'ANNÉE; LES BIENFAITS DU JARDINAGE; ET BIEN PLUS ENCORE ! Voici les légumes...
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Plan bumper harvests the no-dig way using Charles Dowding's monthly crop calendar. Follow simple steps to: • find success with more than 35 vegetables and herbs from tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander; • start a no-dig veg plot on virgin or dug ground, improve the soil and become an expert mulcher and weeder; • learn key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and storing using time-saving monthly checklists; • make a raised bed, tackle...
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Focusing on plants destined for the dinner plate, The Kitchen Garden is an illustrated guide to growing edible plants from sowing to harvesting. Learn when to sow, what to grow and how to make your delicious harvest into a meal.
The book features fifty-five plant profiles ranging from the everyday to the utterly unique, from broccoli to cape gooseberries. Each profile has a hero illustration and an easy-to-comprehend table detailing the most important...
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Tomatoes are one of the tastiest and most versatile vegetables (or fruit, depending on who you're asking) that you can purchase. They can be sliced for sandwiches, diced up for salad, cooked into a paste, used as the base for soups; the possibilities for tomato usage are almost limitless. They're perfect as a side or snack, as an ingredient in tomato recipes, or just as an addition for a little extra flavor. Best of all, tomatoes are actually one...
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For the same price, or less than, a packet of seeds, this handy mini-book is full of useful tips for growing peppers. Sweet peppers (or bell peppers) and chili peppers come in all shapes, sizes and colours.
This guide includes a little about peppers and healthy reasons why you should include them in your diet.
Plus:*Suggested varieties - images and descriptions of a few regular garden varieties*Planting and general care tips - looking after your...
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Half a Million Straw Bale Gardeners Can't Be Wrong From Australia to France to the UK and far beyond, Straw Bale Gardening is making an impact. The revolutionary method of growing food in bales has been on the scene for just a few years, but in that time it has spread across the world with unprecedented speed. The reason? In any climate and on any continent you can grow beautiful, fresh vegetables in environments where no food has grown before. In...
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Have you wanted to pick up a new hobby? How does saving a few dollars, and eating healthier sound? What if I told you could could do all three, all at once? If this sounds good, then keep reading! Whу garden, уоu аѕk? How аbоut еnjоуіng thе bеѕt vegetables and fruіt you've еvеr eaten? If уоu'vе nеvеr tаѕtеd garden-fresh fооd, уоu wіll be аmаzеd bу thе ѕwееt, juісу flаvоrѕ аnd vіbrаnt textures. There's...
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