Gardener’s Guide to Growing Vegetables is the perfect guide for beginning gardeners as it has the basic information needed to grow twenty of the most popular vegetables in the garden. Continue reading Gardener’s Guide to Growing Vegetables
Sample ChapterGardener’s Guide to Full Sun Perennial FlowersChapter title – Alyssum Family:BrassicaceaeThe name Brassicaceae derives from the genus Brassica, which … Continue reading Sample Chapter – Allyssum
Gardeners’ Guide to Full Sun Perennials includes the best nineteen perennial herbaceous plants for the outdoor flower garden. This guide book includes cultural information for plants you can plant outside in the home garden to provide you with beautiful flowers. Continue reading Gardeners’ Guide to Full Sun Perennial Flowers
The Gardener’s Guide to the Raised Garden Bed provides a wealth of information about growing vegetables in raised beds. The book includes chapters about building materials, siting, plant nutrients, soil amendments, irrigation, soils, composting and much more. Gardeners will find a monthly journal of garden activities to guide them along. Gardeners using row style gardens will find the information useful, as well Continue reading Gardener’s Guide to the Raised Garden Bed
Sample ChapterGardener’s Guide to the Raised Bed GardenChapter title – Introduction to Raised Bed Gardens Introduction to Raised Bed GardensWhat … Continue reading Sample Chapter – Introduction to Raised Bed Gardens
Gardener’s Guide to Botany is a basic manual to botanical information. Written for gardeners by a gardener this manual teaches the gardener about plant seeds, flowers, roots and leaves. Continue reading Gardener’s Guide to Botany
This article deals strictly with seed formation in the class of plants called angiosperms, or “enclosed seeds.” It also deals with the further division of the dicots, or plants with two seed leaves. Continue reading Sample Chapter – Formation and Structure of the Seed in Angiosperms
A garden trowel is an indispensable tool for every gardener. All gardeners should have one trowel and it is best to have several for different purposes. The word trowel derives from the Latin word “truella”, which means “small ladle”. A trowel can serve as a ladle but that is really just one use for a trowel. Indeed, a trowel is the most used tool in the gardener’s toolbox so it is important to get a good one. Nothing is as aggravating as a poor quality trowel that bends when you try to dig. Additionally, a poorly designed handle tires the hand and causes blisters. Continue reading Sample Chapter – Garden Trowels
Compost is an invaluable ingredient for garden soil. It enriches the ground with minerals and other nutrients and can provide ideal mulch for growing plants. The Gardener’s Guide to Making Compost is a primer that both gardening beginners and veterans can use to help them make better compost. The book covers most popular types of compost systems, making compost with worms, mulching and green manures. It is an excellent primer on making and using compost. Continue reading Gardeners Guide to Compost
Garden Soil Types – A Quick Soil Primer
Soil is the top several inches of the earth’s crust. Soil is necessary for civilization to exist, as it supports the plant life that sustains forests, plains, agriculture and other habitats. Five basic factors influence the formation of soil, the bedrock, climate, local fauna and flora, topography and the passage of time. The gardener will find three layers of soils underlying their garden, the topsoil, and subsoil and parent material. The parent material is the minerals that originally formed the soil. The subsoil is the intermediate level between topsoil and the parent material and will have some qualities of both. The topsoil is the part that concerns most gardeners. Continue reading Sample Chapter – Garden Soil Types – A Quick Soil Primer
Pick Your Dinner
We have reached the stage in the garden season where I can go out in the garden and pick our dinner. The spring lettuce has been harvested two or three weeks ago. The winter squash and pumpkins have taken their place in the garden. The peas have already found their way to the compost heap, after yielding a good crop of both shelling and snap peas. Continue reading Pick Your Dinner
Everything the beginning gardener needs to plant their vegetable garden. Continue reading Gardener’s Guide Series Box Set
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