Gardening eBooks

Download Home Vegetable Garden eBook. Here is a list of contents that you will find in the ebook…

*** CONTENTS

**** CHAPTER

* I INTRODUCTION
* II WHY YOU SHOULD GARDEN
* III REQUISITES OF THE HOME VEGETABLE GARDEN
* IV THE PLANTING PLAN
* V IMPLEMENTS AND THEIR USES
* VI MANURES AND FERTILIZERS
* VII THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION

**** PART TWO—VEGETABLES

* VIII STARTING THE PLANTS
* IX SOWING AND PLANTING
* X THE CULTIVATION OF VEGETABLES
* XI THE VEGETABLES AND THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS
* XII BEST VARIETIES OF THE GARDEN VEGETABLES
* XIII INSECTS AND DISEASE, AND METHODS OF FIGHTING THEM
* XIV HARVESTING AND STORING

**** PART THREE—FRUITS

* XV THE VARIETIES OF POME AND STONE FRUITS
* XVI PLANTING; CULTIVATION; FILLER CROPS
* XVII PRUNING, SPRAYING, HARVESTING
* XVIII BERRIES AND SMALL FRUITS
* XIX A CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS
* XX CONCLUSION

Download Orchids For Dummies eBook. As anyone who has read Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief or has seen the movie Adaptation knows, orchids inspire a passionate following. And their popularity is rising: according to the USDA, more than 12.7 million orchids were sold in the U.S. last year. Brimming with black-and-white illustrations and eight pages of color photos, this friendly guide introduces would-be orchid fanciers to today’s most popular and intriguing orchid varieties–and shows step by step how to select healthy plants at a nursery or commercial grower, cultivate them successfully at home, promote blooms, create beautiful orchid displays, and even produce hybrids.

Steven Frowine (New Hartford, CT) worked with orchids professionally as a horticulturist at Hawaii’s National Tropical Botanical Garden and at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he was chairman of indoor horticulture and oversaw over 10,000 plants.

Download The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening eBook. Reap a bountiful harvest from your own backyard.

Download Cheap and Easy Gardening eBook. You say you have a yard that could be improved by a liberal application of Agent Orange? You say you've got tumbleweed where there should be lawn, vines that could be hiding a third world nation, trees that block out the sun? You say your house is beautiful but the yard makes it look as though it should be condemned? You say you are mowing, trimming, weeding, and pruning when you'd rather be swimming, golfing, fishing, or eating? Is that what's bothering you, Bucky?

Well, cheer up! Cheap and Easy Gardening is the answer for you. Authors Bernice Boughner and Mary Young have spent decades creating gardens that require less and less work each year, not more and more. They will help you plan a yard that suits your needs, looks good, and doesn't take a fortune or every spare minute of your time to maintain.

Download Inner Gardening eBook. Whether you're a first-time gardener or a veteran, you'll find something to inspire you in this beautifully written ebook that reveals the myriad ways in which working in a garden can enhance your life and deepen your connection to the world.

Season by season, Diane Dreher leads you through a journey of peace and renewal. A monthly set of gardening tasks helps you plan, design, and care for your garden, along with illuminating details of gardening history, lore, and tradition. But here you'll also find ways to tend your own inner garden: how to plant seeds of ideas and dreams, weed out bad habits, and design new challenges one step at a time.

Download Growing Flowers from Seed in Canada eBook. The author describes the flower varieties he has raised from seed and grown in his garden during the past twenty years and encourages readers to do the same.

Raising flowers from seed is something every Canadian gardener can do and there is enormous satisfaction in doing it yourself. It is inexpensive and not difficult so don't be put off by those who say you must have a green thumb. Just follow the instructions on the seed packet and the seed will do the rest. In fact, most flowers are as easy to grow as vegetables.

Since 1986, he has created 20 different gardens as he expanded flowerbeds, cut into lawns and coaxed odd corners of his garden into bloom. Each year's garden is significantly different from the previous ones, made necessary as he turned out an abundance of seedlings that had to find growing space somewhere.