1519 All-Natural, All-Amazing Gardening Secrets


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1,519 All-Natural, All-Amazing Gardening Secrets is filled with old-time wisdom, ingenious advice, surprising tips and expert tricks for the garden of your dreams. With less time, money and effort you can create a beautiful garden. We’ll show you how plan and design your garden, choose which plants are best for your climate zone, and maintain your dream garden. Here are just a few of the secrets you’ll find in this book: Want greener grass? Add some Epsom salts to a gallon of water and spread it on your lawn. Hoping for juicier tomatoes? Add a spoonful of sugar at just the right time. Trying to keep ants at bay? Make a hot chile and water mash and pour directly into the anthill. • COMPREHENSIVE AND HARDWORKING: This practical guide is loaded with solid hints, informative tips, surprising fixes and ingenious advice to grow the garden and lawn of your dreams. Covering everything from garden planning to design, understanding the zones, annual flowers and perennials, container plants and landscaping shrubs, vegetables, fruits and herbs, lawn care basics and repair, weeds and pests control, soil improvements, garden structures, and so much more. • ALL NATURAL SOLUTIONS: Simple solutions to common garden problems can often be found in your kitchen cabinets or recycling bins. From spritzing slugs with leftover coffee to capturing pesky flies and yellow jackets with simple soda bottle traps, this book brings together hundreds old tried and true ways to grow a better garden naturally without resorting to costly and harmful chemicals.







1519 All-Natural, All-Amazing Gardening Secrets


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Did you know that pepper will repel squirrels and coffee grounds leaf-eating insects? That a little liquid soap adds punch to fertilizers and pesticides? Or that the best time to cut roses is early morning or late evening? You'll find lots of secrets from the experts like these in this handy new guide. From rescuing tired tomato plants to keeping lawn weeds at bay, these tricks will have you working magic in your garden--with less effort, less time, and less money! Other hints show you how to select work-saving tools, create invisible stakes, use sawdust and seaweed mulches, and keep the dog from digging up your new flowerbed.




All Amazing Garden Secrets


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Packed with thousands of tips, this gardening book features entries that include species names, garden styles, tools, and techniques and much more. It also includes box features that help you to select and grow an abundant array of plants to suit your garden, or reveal tit-bits of folklore and history.




1001 Hints & Tips for Your Garden


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Whether you want to plant a tree, choose a climber, grow fragrant flowers, or learn how to apply the various types of fertilizer, this comprehensive A-to-Z book will help you get the job done. And because topics are cross-referenced, you will find it easy to use. Inside are samplers of varieties of the best-loved plants - flowers, vegetables, trees, and shrubs - and a list of tulips that will take turns blooming all spring long. And for lovers of lilies, there is a guide for three months of blossoms. A month-by-month calendar provides a handy checklist for taking care of trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables, lawns, and container plants. Also included are tips on how to attract butterflies and ladybugs to your garden, easy ways to compost, and a list of good patio plants. 1001 Hints & Tips for Your Garden offers secrets for siting plants and strategies for coping with weeds, wind, drought, and frost. Here, too, are plants which are best for creating privacy and baffling noise. An illustrated 20-page section on common pests and diseases shows how to diagnose and deal with problems in the garden. And tips on hedges, fences, trellises, and fountains help the gardener achieve a finished look in the garden. Twelve special features cover such topics as heirloom vegetables and roses, wildflower meadows and period gardens.







All Amazing Garden Secrets


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Here is a gardening book with a difference - it's packed with thousands of invaluable tips you'll want to use straight away. Whether you are already experienced or a green-fingered novice, you'll find many nuggets of inspirational advice to surprise you.




The Big Book of Gardening Secrets


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Scores of professional secrets for growing better vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers! Extend your growing season and increase yields with this thorough guide to every aspect of backyard gardening! Learn how to: -- Grow more and better-tasting herbs and vegetables -- Grow annuals, perennials, bulbs, even roses, in any climate -- Landscape with shrubs, vines, and trees -- Make compost and amend soil -- Create indoor and outdoor container gardens -- Cultivate bountiful berry patches and fruit orchards You'll also find low-maintenance shortcuts and money saving solutions to dozens of common gardening problems.




1001 Old-time Garden Tips


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Timeless bits of wisdom on how to grow everything organically, from the good old days when everyone did Old-time gardeners were ahead of their time! Their ideas for wildflower gardens, children's gardens, organic pest controls, decorating with houseplants, healing with herbs, and more are at the forefront of modern gardening trends. Take a look back to the future of gardening with this incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners. Early gardeners knew what they were doing--they had to, since they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation! Whether you're growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruits, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, houseplants, or lawn grass, these old-time tips will help you get the most out of your plantings. Do you want a lusher lawn? How about more beautiful flowerbeds or hints for making your yard look bigger? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips. Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. Discover creative ways to landscape your home with fanciful topiary tree houses or practical hedges and windbreaks. From fruits to nuts and artichokes to watermelons, you'll find recommendations for healthier harvests--not to mention recipes for unique and tasty side dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. Plus: hundreds of organic techniques that have been proven effective by generations of great gardeners! Look for these special features and more: * "Old-Time Wisdom" boxes present early gardeners' best planting notions. * Tried-and-true recipes from early kitchens will tickle your tastebuds. * "Strange but True" boxes reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques. * A source list makes it easy to locate wonderful old-time plants. * Authentic old-time illustrations take you back to a time when garden tips were on everyone's lips. * A "Recommended Reading" list guides you to more great ideas from the past.




Grow Your Own Food Anywhere


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Have you ever wished you could grow your own vegetables but thought you lacked the garden space? Want to turn your brown thumb into a green thumb? Then you need to keep reading.... It's springtime! The birds are chirping and flower buds are starting to bloom. You see people at the home and garden centers loading up their carts with packages of seeds and soil. Others are buying little vegetable plants to transplant into their garden and you wonder... How do they know what to do? Do they actually get ripened vegetables to pick and eat? So you think to yourself "Hey maybe I could do that!" Then you remember you don't own a garden.....or maybe you don't even have a yard for that matter. So you come to the conclusion it's just not for you. But according to the National Gardening Association (NGA), one out three American families grows food in a community garden or at home. So don't let your lack of garden space or skills stop you. Gardening in pots, planters, and raised garden beds is a perfect and simple way to grow vegetables. Square foot gardening makes growing your own food accessible to everyone, including you! In this Grow Your Own Food Anywhere guide, you will discover: the secrets to germinating seeds and growing amazing seedlings that your friends will be jealous of the easy steps to transplanting seedlings properly so you can have the greatest number of successful plants the gardening essentials you need to be a successful urban gardener natural ways of gardening to ensure all your vegetables are fully organic how to properly care for your plants so you get the highest return from them the best ways to harvest your vegetables so that you can enjoy a variety of vegetables all gardening season how you can use what you have, even a small patio or porch, to successfully grow your own food Most people worry they don't have the room for gardening, and it will be an expensive waste of money. The good news is the National Gardening Association reported the average gardening household experiences a positive return on investment. And gardening using pots, planters, and raised garden beds is becoming more and more popular. Gardening is not difficult, and with the right guidance, anyone can do it. Luckily, this book will have everything that you need and more.... The steps in this book are so easy to follow that your green thumb will flourish, even if you normally kill every plant you touch. If you want to grow your own bounty of food, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button now!