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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing; 2 edition (May 19, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603580298
ISBN-13: 978-1603580298.

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Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 70 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (December 14, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0064472078
ISBN-13: 978-0064472074.

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Format: Kindle Edition
Print Length: 360 pages
Publisher: New Society Publishers (April 1, 2006)
ASIN: B0028N6D4O.

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The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering.

Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this new circumstance. Crowded raised beds require high inputs of water, fertility and organic matter, and demand large amounts of human time and effort. But, except for labor, these inputs depend on the price of oil. Prior to the 1970s, North American home food growing used more land with less labor, with wider plant spacing, with less or no irrigation, and all done with sharp hand tools. But these sustainable systems have been largely forgotten. Gardening When It Counts helps readers rediscover traditional low-input gardening methods to produce healthy food.

Designed for readers with no experience and applicable to most areas in the English-speaking world except the tropics and hot deserts, this book shows that any family with access to 3-5,000 sq. ft. of garden land can halve their food costs using a growing system requiring just the odd bucketful of household waste water, perhaps two hundred dollars worth of hand tools, and about the same amount spent on supplies – working an average of two hours a day during the growing season.

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Forager’s Harvest Press; 1 edition (May 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0976626608
ISBN-13: 978-0976626602.

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A practical guide to all aspects of edible wild plants: finding and identifying them, their seasons of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. Each plant is discussed in great detail and accompanied by excellent color photographs. Includes an index, illustrated glossary, bibliography, and harvest calendar. The perfect guide for all experience levels.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1808 KB
Print Length: 40 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers (April 1, 2009)
Language: English
ASIN: B00245A4VE.

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One boy’s quest for a greener world… one garden at a time.

While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.

This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.

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Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: Chelsea Green (October 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1890132276
ISBN-13: 978-1890132279.

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (February 11, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603421386
ISBN-13: 978-1603421386.

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Paperback: 928 pages
Publisher: Sasquatch Books; 10th edition (July 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1570615535
ISBN-13: 978-1570615535.

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Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Seed Savers Exchange; 2 edition (March 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1882424581
ISBN-13: 978-1882424580.

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Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds. Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small scale. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques she recommends for the home garden. This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed, which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. Local knowledge about seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West Coast, and Northwest.

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Format: Kindle Edition
Print Length: 320 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 2 edition (December 31, 1979)
ASIN: B001UE8J08.

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Anyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the step-by-step advice in this book.

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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Van Patten Publishing; 5 edition (February 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 187882323X
ISBN-13: 978-1878823236.

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With 512 full color pages and 1120 full color photographs and illustrations, Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible is the most complete cultivation book available. The Fifth Edition of the former Indoor Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor Bible was originally published in 1983, when it immediately became a best seller. More than 500,000 copies of the Indoor Bible are in print in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish. New greenhouse and outdoor growing chapters make this a book both indoor and outdoor growers will keep under thumb. The other 15 chapters (17 total) are all updated with the most current information, completely rewritten and significantly expanded. For example, Dr. John McPartland contributed an all new medical section – The books credits list more than 300 contributors and reads like a who’s who in the world of cannabis cultivation.

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Cool Springs Press (February 14, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591862027
ISBN-13: 978-1591862024.

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Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening?
Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it’s even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don’t have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ever again because you’ll be growing above the ground.
But, the best feature is that anyone, anywhere can enjoy a Square Foot garden. Children, adults with limited mobility, even complete novices can achieve spectacular results.
But, let’s get back to the ten improvements. You’re going to love them.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1068 KB
Print Length: 384 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books (May 8, 2007)
Language: English
ASIN: B000QTD62Y.

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Hardcover: 223 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books (May 21, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565126831
ISBN-13: 978-1565126831.

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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. You’ll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother).

Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

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