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Organic Pest & Disease Control : How to Grow a Healthy, Problem-Free Garden (Taylor's Weekend Gardening ... 1 review
Houghton Mifflin, 1997
a must for the environmentally responsible gardener
the pictures are spectularly lifelike, making pest and disease identification easy, and the solutions are do-able and effective.
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The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-How for Keeping (Not Killing) More Than ... 9 reviews Barbara Pleasant
Storey Publishing, LLC, 2005
Perfect for environment and care demands.
+ The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-How for Keeping (Not Killing) More Than 160 Indoor Plants + A great resource for beginners + The Complete Houseplant Survival manual: Essential Gardening Know -How for keeping (Not Killing) More than 160 Indoor Plants`
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McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible ... 45 reviews Rose Marie Nichols McGee, Maggie Stuckey
Workman Publishing Company, 2002
Fantastic!!!!
+ Bountiful Container + great resource + Love this Book! + LOVE this book!!!!
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Houseplants for Dummies 5 reviews Larry Hodgson, National Gardening Association
For Dummies, 1998
Clear and Sound Information
+ Who cares about organization! + Informative
This book is well written and provides sound information and guidance. I bought the book because I know little about houseplants. After a few minutes of reading I went to the nursery as an informed consumer. The salesman in the store where I bought my plants confirmed that the book is excellent. ...
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Your Backyard Herb Garden: A Gardener's Guide to Growing Over 50 Herbs Plus How to Use Them in Cooking, ... 18 reviews Miranda Smith
Rodale Books, 1999
in love with herbs
+ Complete information + Concise, but useful + I LOVE THIS BOOK + "Must Have" for aspiring herb growers
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The Organic Home Garden: How to Grow Fruits and Vegetables Naturally 3 reviews Patrick Lima
Firefly Books, 2004
Covers fresh and healthy foods and how to grow them
+ life renewing spirit
Newcomers to organic gardening will find Patrick Lima's Organic Home Garden an excellent, basic introduction which covers fresh and healthy foods and how to grow them with a minimum of additives. From selecting hardy varieties of seeds and seedlings to choosing appropriate compost and controlling ...
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Organic Kitchen Garden (Conran Octopus Gardening) Juliet Roberts
Conran, 2006
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 ...
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Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Soil and Composting: The Complete Guide to Building Healthy, Fertile Soil ... 1 review Nancy J. Ondra, Barbara Ellis
Houghton Mifflin, 1998
Not so Boring on a Boring Subject
This book is in the Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guides series of books. Like most books in this series, it is easy to read and understand. While it touches upon some of the science behind why good soil is important, it doesn't bore the average gardener with laborious explanations. It quickly ...
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Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants 3 reviews Ellen Zachos
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2005
Tempting Tropicals: 175 Irresistible Indoor Plants
+ Must have plant book + Tempting Tropicals is a horticultural tour de force...
Tempting Tropicals by HortResources member Ellen Zachos is clear and concise, easy to read and understand even by those who do not have a degree in horticulture. It is a great reference for 175 tropical plants that are not grown as often as they should be. Each plant profile contains light, ...
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Complete Houseplant Handbook (Complete) 1 review Peter McHoy
Southwater, 2005
Houseplant Book
I purchased this book for myself to help me with my plants. The book does not go into a lot of detail, but just enough to help me take care of the plants I now have. Good investment.
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Organic Gardening for Dummies 3 reviews Ann Whitman, The Editors of the National Gardening Association
For Dummies, 2001
Easy and Informative
+ Extremely Pleased!! + Great book - easy read
Good primer for a beginning organic gardener. You can read it cover to cover or skip around to find information on your specific organic gardening needs. The book takes a pragmatic look at the challenges of organic gardening while keeping the "first, do no harm" philosophy in tact. The technical ...
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Organic Gardening 2 reviews Geoff Hamilton
DK ADULT, 2004
Top Notch!!
+ top notch
I am a beginning gardener who wants to learn to garden without chemicals or pesticides. After using this book for one season, I can't recommend it enough. It is easy to use and full of information that has kept our gardens healthy and beautiful. It has answered all of my questions and kept me ...
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Organic Gardening for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers 5 reviews John Fedor
Readers Digest, 2001
A very complete guide
+ A Valuable Garden Tool! + Great Comprehensive Text + A Pleasure To Read
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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web 37 reviews Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006
Excellent resource
+ Teaming with Microbes + A must for the organic gardener! + Teaming with Microbes + Best Organic Gardening Book I've Ever Read
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Prescription for Herbal Healing: An Easy-to-Use A-Z Reference to Hundreds of Common Disorders and Their ... 22 reviews Phyllis A. Balch
Avery, 2002
Try herbs for healing
+ Excellent source. + A Must Have Book
In 2001 i developed some sort of problem,which was stomach or possibly liver related.I used to drink alot,and i got kind of giddy from it during the day.Something internal was telling me to give the drink away.I did but the lightheadedness stayed.I went to the doctor about it,after some blood ...
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How to Get Your Lawn & Garden Off Drugs: A Basic Guide to Pesticide-Free Gardening in North America Carole Rubin
Harbour, 2003
Chemical pesticides were first formulated during the Second World War as agents of chemical warfare. Since then, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other toxic agents have been developed for use in agriculture and home gardening to kill unwanted weeds, insects and diseases. Today we are looking for ways to clean these agrichemicals from our water, fisheries, wildlife species, soils - and ...
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The Houseplant Encyclopedia 17 reviews Ingrid Jantra, Ursula Kruger
Firefly Books, 2006
Most comprehensive house plant book out there!
This book is absolutely the most comprehensive house plant book out there. It covers almost every topic I can conceive of and then some.
There are pages devoted to not only propagating plants, but also watering (quality, temperature method), repotting and caring for your plants. Not only is ...
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Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, Revised Second Edition 40 reviews Michael Murray, Joseph Pizzorno
Three Rivers Press, 1997
Natural Medicine at it's best..
+ Staying healthy naturally + I've saved thousand$ on doctor visits! + Great Resource + A must to have book
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Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach (Down-To-Earth Book) 11 reviews Karl Schwenke
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991
Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach
This book is chock full of great advice! Add it to your library and refer to it often.
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Maria Rodale's Organic Gardening (Your Seasonal Companion to Creating a Beautiful and Delicious Organic ... 3 reviews Maria Rodale
Rodale Press, 1998
beautiful,imformative,easy read,clear instructions
+ Bleeding Heart Liberal's Favorite Gardening Book + An amazing and well written book!
The Maria Rodale's Organic Gardening:Your Seasonal Companion to Creating a Beautiful and Delicioius Garden is breathtakingly beautiful. Organized by seasons, bursting with information,techniques for gardening and with a bonus of old family recipies, it is a book that will be referred to often. ...
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