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Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls

5 reviews
Nigel Dunnett, Noël Kingsbury

Timber Press, 2008

Organic Architecture with Plants
Greenroof professionals and enthusiasts alike will be delighted with the easy reading and scope of content offered in "Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls" by Nigel Dunnett and Noël Kingsbury. Very well organized, the book's forte and major value is as an essential resource - especially in terms of plant description, characteristics and specification. It's also a great bargain in that the ...

Little Bead Boxes: 12 Miniature Containers Built with Beads

18 reviews
Julia S Pretl

Creative Publishing international, 2006

Add to your beading library
While I have yet to make any of the boxes from this book, I have read it thoroughly and am anxious to begin a box. I have seen boxes others have made from the instructions in this book so I feel confident in recommending it to others. The instructions are clear, don't leave you with questions, and help you to produce a piece worthy of the effort it takes. Again, glad I added it to my personal ...

Cubed Foot Gardening: Growing Vegetables in Raised, Intensive Beds

16 reviews
Christopher O. Bird

The Lyons Press, 2001

Excellant Start For Backyard Gardeners
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1TS6AHKY4KN4C PHOTO SLIDESHOW: The pictures with this review are a daily account of the garden I raised last year using much of the advice from this book. BOOK REVIEW: Chris Bird believes it's easier to grow a garden in raised beds, and in this book, he shows you how. Bird details the fundamentals of cubed foot gardening (how to build the ...

Incredible Vegetables from Self-Watering Containers: Using Ed's Amazing POTS System

13 reviews
Edward C. Smith

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2006

This should be a best seller!!!
I have read a lot of gardening books, but this is one of the all time best!! It is full of facts, as opposed to general descriptions. "A full grown tomato takes a gallon of water a day." as opposed to some vague keep it well watered that you get in so many books. It is precise, without being dry. Written with a sense of humor, as well as common sense. I found a lot of very useful ...

McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible ...

47 reviews
Rose Marie Nichols McGee, Maggie Stuckey

Workman Publishing Company, 2002

Fantastic!!!!
This is truly a fantastic book, easy to follow for a gardening novice like me. I had no idea so many wonderful fruits, veggies, etc. could be grown in containers on my balcony and now I've got a nice crop of strawberries ripening, flourishing tomato and squash plants, different kinds of basil, mint, chives, pansies, dwarf sunflowers--you name it. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested ...

The Secret Techniques of Bonsai: A Guide to Starting, Raising, and Shaping Bonsai

5 reviews
Masakuni Kawasumi II and Masakuni Kawasumi III

Kodansha International, 2006

Fine Summary of Advanced Level Bonsai
This is a fine work on Advanced Techniques for the Bonsai enthusiast, in particular giving full particulars on specialty tools and pruning shears in Bonsai Culture. It is kind of surprising the great tips one can get, from just the one paragraph tips that the authors son added after his father death. Very concise and precise is a great summary for this book.

Easy Container Gardens (Pamela Crawford's Container Gardening)

5 reviews
Pamela Crawford

Color Garden Publishing, 2008

The Very Best Container Garden Book on the Market
Bravo Pamela Crawford, you have done it again by giving us yet another brilliant book on gardening. Easy Container Gardens is the step by step instructions of not only putting together a container garden, but also explains just how pick out the right plants for that perfect container. She not only covers the basics, like container (color, size and shape) but also covers pruning, fertilizing, ...

Easy Composters You Can Build

5 reviews
Nick Noyes

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1995

How to build a Compost
My husband LOVES this book bought it for him for Valentines day. He CANNOT wait to build a compost of his own. Thank you

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

29 reviews
Marc Levinson

Princeton University Press, 2008

Great overview of how containers changed the way we live.
Levinson does an excellent job of describing life before the container and how its introduction was a catalyst for vast socio-economic changes. I like the way he carved up the book into manageable pieces where each chapter examined one aspect of these changes: ports, unions, dockworkers, etc. Drawback is that some photos, graphs, etc should have been included to illustrate some of Levinson's ...

All New Square Foot Gardening

110 reviews
Mel Bartholomew

Cool Springs Press, 2006

My own Squarefoot of Happiness
I bought this book searching for a new way to garden, The soil where I live is poor mostly clay and huge rocks! It was wearing me out. I gave up 5 years ago and just grew container tomatoes and flowers. I found wood, four 6 foot planks for 20 bucks at lumber store. (on clearance). I bought some angles and put them together. I followed the directions most of the time but I found culivated soil ...

Sprout Garden - Revised Edition

4 reviews
Mark Mathew Braunstein

Book Publishing Company (TN), 1999

Sproutguy's revised review of the Revised Edition
Mark did a great job of updating this book! It is packed with a whole lot more info (not that the 1st edition wasn't packed as well) and is layed out beautifully. All I said in my review of the 1st edition still goes, but I now kinda enjoy the puns and the additional info makes this book even more indispensable. This is the BEST BOOK ON SPROUTING that currently exists! When all is said and ...

P. Allen Smith's Living in the Garden Home: Connecting the Seasons with Containers, Crafts, and Celebrations ...

1 review
P. Allen Smith

Clarkson Potter, 2007

A beautiful garden home
Once again, P. Allen Smith does not disappoint. This is a beautiful book filled with fun projects. I love all of his books and this one tops the list!

500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment (500 Series)

3 reviews
Lark Books

Lark Books, 2007

I am impressed
I really like this book, there is a lot of good work. For those of you who had a fit about the unwearable jewelry in the various 500 jewelry books: many of these vessels are non functional. So I don't want to hear your complaints like, "I don't see how anyone could use that teapot..."

Pots in the Garden: Expert Design and Planting

7 reviews
Ray Rogers, Richard W. Hartlage

Timber Press, Incorporated, 2007

Gorgeous book and inspired arrangements
I purchased several gardening books together and this one was the highlight. Not only beautifully photographed but full of interesting suggestions and writing. My husband and I were able to immediately use some of the arrangements as inspiration for a new bed in our garden. Turned out beautifully!

Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers

4 reviews
BOB KEALING

University Press of Florida, 2008

Tupperware unsealed
Our family is one of the original Tupperware pioneers mentioned in this book. I was very impressed with the author's ability to really capture an honest and accurate account of Brownie's spectacular rise to power in Tupperware as well as her eventual demise in the business world of the 50's. This book gives credit where it is due to all the early players that were responsible for creating this ...

Instant Container Gardens

11 reviews
Pamela Crawford

Color Garden Publishing, 2007

Instant Container Gardens
This softback book is beautiful,informative and I believe it will be very useful to me. It is quite unique in the world of gardening books and I have many. I have no doubt my container gardens will be much more artistic from now on. It arrived promptly and in good condition. Thanks

The Complete Container Garden

11 reviews
David Joyce

Readers Digest, 2003

Going To Pot (s)
Well, I was going to entitle my review, Contain Yourself, but I can see that's actually a real title of a container gardening book. I've always had a green thumb. Even as a teenager. I used to grow stuff in my closet all the time with a grow light and a water drip and all that stuff. Of course, the day that the feds came and confiscated my closet garden is another story for another day... But ...

Coleus: Rainbow Foliage for Containers and Gardens

2 reviews
Ray Rogers

Timber Press, 2008

Coleus
A very thorough and logical presentation of "all you ever wanted to know about growing Coleus" without getting too collegiate. Sensational photography. I've always wanted to incorporate more Coleus in my California in-ground landscape and patio-pot settings...now I'm much more confident that I will be successful. This book is a must-have...so informative and such luscious photos...and ...

Small Garden

5 reviews
John Brookes

DK ADULT, 2006

Good Starter Book
This was a very good introductory book for a beginner like myself to basic principles of garden designing for small spaces. Brookes has separated the major concepts into six easy to read chapters: linking living/outdoor space, style, case studies, design (planning), structure (ground pattern, paving, fencing, furnishings) and planting. Each well-written chapter is accompanied by beautiful ...

Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings
Paul Sawyers

CreateSpace, 2008

Intermodal Shipping Container Small Steel Buildings explains how to purchase steel cargo containers and modify them for use as buildings under 1000 sq ft in size. Learn how you can save up to 40% over tradition lumber and factory made steel structures with these unique building blocks. New and used steel shipping containers are available nationwide. It's easy to buy containers and modify them for use as workshops, garages, cabins, guest houses, ...

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