Elementary Gardening Lesson Plans
May 11, 2012
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Vegetable Gardening Tips Soil Fertilizer
May 10, 2012
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Expert Gardening Soil
May 6, 2012
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ARC MEDIA 6556EASY INDOOR GARDENING $13.95 Platform: WINDOWS MACINTOSH (CLASSIC) Publisher: ARC MEDIA Packaging: JEWEL CASE Whether you already have a garden or just want to add a few plants to your home Easy Indoor Gardening has the tips you need to get started. Expert gardener Louise B. Peacock will reveal some of the best-kept secrets to successful gardening and quickly put you on the path to the indoor garden of your dreams!Packed with color photos video clips and everything you wanted to know about: Indoor GardeningAnnuals amp; PerennialsTrees amp; ShrubsPests amp; DiseasesPlus a section on bulbs pruning and soil for outdoor gardening and much much more... Features: Hundreds of color photos and video clipsPlant lists to take the guesswork out of choosing plantsEasy-to-follow instructions and tipsComprehensive glossary and extensive plant-name index System Requirements for Windows Windows Vista XP 98 Vista486 or faster16 MB RAM640x480 monitor 16-bit colorWindows-compatible sound card amp; speakers2X CD-ROM drive System Requirements for Macintosh Mac OS 7.0-9.2 OS X Classic mode16 MB RAM640x480 monitor thousands of colors2X CD-ROM drive |
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Conscious Gardening $19.95 Techniques for biodynamic and organic gardening combine with spiritual knowledge in this guide to planting in tune with the earth. Written by an expert gardener who had an awakening into consciousness while landscaping, the handbook offers both practical knowledge on the physical aspects of gardening--such as mulching, compost, compounds, insects, and soil protection--as well as the more metaphysical side--such as the spirit of the land, garden energy, and the unseen connections to the earth. This passionate and applicable resource shows that by switching to a being-with outlook from a doing-to attitude, growers will develop gorgeous flowers, herbs, and vegetables as well as a deep affection for nature. |
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Lewis Tools Sod Plugger $35.57 Plugging is one of the simplest and most economical ways to establish a new lawn, convert a troubled lawn, or repair a damaged lawn. Grass plugs have a complete root system and are easier to establish than sod. Moisture is probably the most important consideration immediately after planting. Adjust watering to climatic conditions. Without rainfall, grass plugs should be watered daily for the first 7 to 10 days. Soil and plug moisture must be maintained. Consult with your gardening expert about the desired amount of water. Root-in will occur in approximately 14-20 days during cool months and 7-14 days during warm months.* |
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Organic Kitchen Garden $134.78 This gardening guide makes going organic--and enjoying the unmatched taste of fresh, pure produce--easy! Beautifully photographed in the 18th century walled kitchen of Audley End in Essex, and written by expert journalist Juliet Roberts, it explains all a newcomer needs to know about setting up a vegetable patch, preparing the soil, choosing and caring for crops, and staggering the harvest throughout the season. Learn how to grow everything from tomatoes to potatoes, salad greens to cabbages. Helpful monthly lists provide reminders of what jobs need doing when, and there are tips on composting, pest and weed control, plant health care, and even watering. |
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The Easy-Care Gardening Expert $14.95 From a...gardening guru...comes this taut program for gardening with less work. With highly organized graphics, including color-coded tips, charts, photos, and four-color illustrations, and a direct, focused text...tackles gardening according to four rudiments: appropriate site and soil; effortless plants...no bare ground...and ''hard'' landscape design...Clearly labeled illustrations and plant charts clarify advice about low-care lawns, trees, perennials, annuals, fruits, herbs and vegetables....this volume will prove a helpful reference. -- Publishers Weekly. |
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The Greenhouse Gardener $87.39 A greenhouse can be a garden''s greatest asset: its nucleus and powerhouse. There are many ways of using it and a gardener can adopt one or all of them. In spring, you can start young plants from seed; raise tender perennials to fill gaps in the garden; give young vegetable plants a head start; sow early lettuce while the soil is too sticky to work outdoors. During spring and summer, you can raise greenhouse crops like tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines and chillis. You''ll be able to overwinter tender plants such as bananas and cannas. And the greenhouse can be a showcase full of beautiful, unusual and exotic plants.Trained at Kew and for many years Glasshouse Supervisor at the RHS Garden at Wisley, Anne Swithinbank is the expert on greenhouse gardening, and in this book she comprehensively describes the techniques that will allow you to greatly expand the growing capabilities of your garden. |
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The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists $17.95 In the tradition of The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists, The Texas Gardener's Book of Lists compiles essential advice for anyone gardening in the Lone Star state. An indispensable resource to all manner of flowers, fruits, vegetables, trees, and grasses, these lists provide expert-tested recommendations for the plants best suited to Texas's unusual extremes.The gardening guidance provided in The Texas Gardener's Book of Lists, applies to the entire state, including plants adapted to the wide diversity of climates and soil types. The book provides pertinent details on trees, shrubs, vines, ground covers, roses, bulbs, ornamental grasses, wildflowers, and tropicals. Featured lists include: -- The best tasting tomatoes for Texas gardens and the hottest to mildest chile peppers-- The best fruit trees, from citrus in the Valley to peaches in the Hill Country-- Disease-resistant pecans that grow virtually without spraying-- Tough xeriscape plants to survive the longest drought with minimum care and maximum show-- South-of-the-border plants that thrive in Texas landscapesIn addition, this must-have guide contains many specialty lists, such as Texas's most popular daylilies, the best Louisiana iris, plants to attract beneficial insects, and butterfly and hummingbird plants. The Texas Gardener's Book of Lists offers a shorthand guide to getting the most out of any Texas garden. |
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Container Gardening Tomatoes Hanging
May 6, 2012
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Vegetable Gardening Tips Tomatoes
May 5, 2012
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Organic Kitchen Garden $134.78 This gardening guide makes going organic--and enjoying the unmatched taste of fresh, pure produce--easy! Beautifully photographed in the 18th century walled kitchen of Audley End in Essex, and written by expert journalist Juliet Roberts, it explains all a newcomer needs to know about setting up a vegetable patch, preparing the soil, choosing and caring for crops, and staggering the harvest throughout the season. Learn how to grow everything from tomatoes to potatoes, salad greens to cabbages. Helpful monthly lists provide reminders of what jobs need doing when, and there are tips on composting, pest and weed control, plant health care, and even watering. |
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Tomatoes Garlic Basil $18.95 One economic sector is trending sharply up: backyard vegetable gardening. Americans are tending to their gardens looking for advice. Doug Oster, popular radio talk show gardening expert garden/food columnist, gets the most veggie questions about tomatoes, garlic basil. Doug s easy-does-it book balances savvy organic gardening tips, some horticultural history, serious funny gardening tales and 30 simply delicious recipes (the payoff). For loft balconies or backyards in the burbs. 40 color photos (throughout). |
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Winter Vegetable Gardening Missouri
May 4, 2012
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Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartland $21.07 How do I cope with winter-spring-winter-summer-winter-spring weather?Which of these things sprouting are my vegetables and which ones are weeds?What do I do about this awful clay soil?These are just a few of the questions addressed in Growing Great Vegetables in the Heartland. Comprising over one-fifth of the U.S. -- South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky -- the Heartland may share horticultural zones with many other areas, but its soils and erratic weather make gardening there a singularly challenging experience. Dispensing hard-won advice from years of firsthand experience and promoting a practical, organic approach, this invaluable guide offers essential information to beginners and veteran gardeners of the Great Plains.Andrea Ray Chandler explains with clear instructions, down-to-earth examples, and colorful anecdotes the fundamentals of: -- soil regeneration and compost making-- weather problems (and how to cope with them!)-- cool-weather crops and succession planning-- warm-weather crops and crop rotation-- tool selection, skywatching, seed-saving, budget tips, and online informationGrowing Great Vegetables in the Heartland also imparts valuable tips on row cover comparisons, unusual and perennial vegetables, recipes for vegetable haters, gardener's health issues, gardening myths, and more. |
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Dramatic Play Gardening
May 2, 2012
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Four Tenths of an Acre: Reflections on a Gardening Life $1.31 The rituals of gardening give a rhythm, even rapture, to everyday life that is apart from the routines of writing and the flows of relationships. Tending my garden became the same as taking care of myself. When Laurie Lisle fled the city, she was in such a fever to buy a particular old clapboard house on the green of a historic New England village that she didn't notice the awkward shape of the backyard. When I had seen the surveyor's map of my less than half acre, she writes, I was shocked at how very long and narrow a rectangle it actually was; on paper, as if seen from above, it looked to me like a fairway on a golf course, and I wondered how I could turn such an awful shape into a graceful garden. Thus begins this modern pastoral, in which Lisle tells us how she heaved compost, dug post holes, planted, and replanted-and how she also found herself digging into her feelings about love and loss, work and play, roots and rootlessness, solitude and sociability. Twenty years later, in these intimate essays that have sprung up around themes such as Weather, Color, Woods, and Shadows, Lisle explores the fascinating connections among one's interior landscape, village life, and the natural world. In Roots, Lisle writes about the generations of female gardeners in her family and the question of whether she has exiled herself into a floral cage. In Sharon, she traces the grand gardening history of her pre-Revolution town and notes the tensions between natives and newcomers. Words contrasts the easy pleasure of gardening with the more elusive satisfaction of writing, and goes on to examine the role of the garden in the lives of writers such as EmilyDickinson and Edith Wharton. Woods tells of the dramatic demarcation point between nature acted upon and nature left alone. In Outside, Lisle battles back the deer and contemplates the mature garden that has grown up around her. Ultimately, Four Tenths of an Acre is a testament to one wo |
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