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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

by Eliot Coleman, Kathy Bary

If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames... (more)

Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century

Eliot Coleman's Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century

by Eliot Coleman

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine. Now, with his long-awaited new book, The... (more)

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener's Supply Book)

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener's Supply Book)

by Eliot Coleman, Sheri Amsel, Molly Cook Field

Coleman's personable work draws together the experience and wisdom of his 25 years as a vegetable gardener in Maine. It includes nearly all the material in the previous edition (LJ 11/1/89), communicating a respect and feeling for "the land" and its processes. Every page is imbued with the wisdom and careful observations he and his associates have gathered; from soil structure to "mobile greenhouses" that expand... (more)

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

by Louise Riotte

This classic has now taught generations of gardeners how to use the natural benefits of plants to protect and support each other. Here is a reader's complete reference to which plants nourish the soil, which keep away bugs and pests, and which plants just don't get along. Here is a complete guide to using companion planting to grow a better garden. 555,000 copies in print.

The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

by J. I. Rodale

This classic reference, first published in 1959, is a wealth of useful information on gardening the natural way. Now all this wisdom has been distilled into a convenient Running Press Miniature Edition™ to help anyone master the art of organic gardening quickly and easily!

The Rodale Book of Composting

by Deborah L. Martin

The essential guide to composting for all gardeners and enviromentally conscious people Composting is fast becoming a household word. Gardeners know it is the best way to feed the soil, while others look to composting as a way to dispose of grass clippings, autumn leaves, and tree trimmings. The Rodale Book of Composting offers: * Easy-to-follow instructions for making and using compost * Helpful tips for... (more)

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

Whether an experienced gardener is looking to go organic or a beginner wants to create a healthy, eco-friendly garden, the Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening contains the tips and techniques needed to produce beautiful flowers, top-quality herbs, and appetizing, wholesome fruits and vegetables. Explore the latest methods for cultivation without chemicals, discover the benefits of composting,... (more)

Rodale's garden insect, disease & weed identification guideAnn Carr, Miranda Smith

Rodale's garden insect, disease & weed identification guide

by Miranda Smith

Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions Without Chemical Pollution

Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions Without Chemical Pollution

by Loren Nancarrow

At long last, you can grow your tomatoes and eat them too with the help of this primer on gardening with fewer chemicals. Gardeners and homeowners alike need simple and safe ways to stop unwanted pests and plant diseases while allowing nature to flourish. A companion to the highly successful DEAD SNAILS LEAVE NO TRAILS, DEAD DAISIES picks up where the first book left off, offering a wide range of new tips and... (more)

PERMACULTURE: A Designers' Manual

by Bill Mollison, Reny Mia Slay

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control

A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden & Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

End your worries about garden problems with safe, effective solutions from The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control ! * Easy-to-use problem-solving encyclopedia covers more than 200 vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, trees, and shrubs * Complete directions on how, when, and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical... (more)

Organic Pest & Disease Control : How to Grow a Healthy, Problem-Free Garden (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides) (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides)

Organic Pest & Disease Control : How to Grow a Healthy, Problem-Free Garden (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides) (Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides)

by Barbara W. Ellis

Pests and diseases can be controlled the organic way with the help of this informative guide.

Grow Organic

by DK Publishing

A simpler, fresher look at the organic approach in the whole garden-not just fruit and vegetables but also herbs, flowers, shrubs, trees, as well as composting and recycling, attracting beneficial wildlife and preventing and managing pests and diseases-all organically, and all without the use of chemicals. This book is aimed more at the beginner than the original Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening (published with... (more)

Companion Plants and How to Use Them

by Helen Philbrick, Richard Gregg

The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book

by Ruth Stout

Grow It : The Beginner's Complete In-Harmony-With-Nature Small Farm Guide-From Vegetable and Grain Growing to Livestock Care

Grow It : The Beginner's Complete In-Harmony-With-Nature Small Farm Guide-From Vegetable and Grain Growing to Livestock Care

by Richard W. Langer

An indispensable guide to small-scale organic farming that features advice on everything from building and stocking a pond to planting an orchard or making cheese. This extremely practical and easy-to-use guide, first published in 1972, is for full-time or part-time country dwellers/gardeners. Illus.

Herbs

by Patricia S. Michalak

Gardeners everywhere love herbs for the wonderful flavors they add to food, the beauty they lend to the garden, and for their many uses in crafts and as home remedies. This hands-on guide shows how anyone can successfully grow a wide range of more than 90 herbs in the back yard. Features a full-color encyclopedia section. 300 color photographs; 50 illustrations.

Organic plant protection : a comprehensive reference on controlling insects and diseases in the garden, orchard and yard without using chemicals

African Indigenous Vegetables: An Overview of the Cultivated Species

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