The Book of Outdoor Gardening

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the More You Garden the More You Grow
SMITH HawkeN offers a distinctly American approach to the art, craft, and pastime of gardening. Embracing English perennial beds, French intensive techniques, antique roses, heirloom vegetables, alternative lawns, and a bedrock philosophy of working within the ecosystem, The Book of Outdoor Gardening is a fully illustrated guide to gardening responsibly, featuring a separate color reference to 350 favorite plants. It is for anyone who shares the Smith Hawken belief that every garden counts.
It All Begins With the Soil Nutrients, tilth, deciphering pH, solving common soil problems, how to create and use compost.
Plants Just Want to Live Or how every plant will reward the hand that nurtures it. An anatomy lesson—roots, leaves, flowers. Choosing healthy specimens. Diagnosing and preventing problems without pesticides and other chemicals.
Every Garden Counts From kitchen herbs in a container to a backyard potager to a formal landscape, grand... Tovább

Fülszöveg

the More You Garden the More You Grow
SMITH HawkeN offers a distinctly American approach to the art, craft, and pastime of gardening. Embracing English perennial beds, French intensive techniques, antique roses, heirloom vegetables, alternative lawns, and a bedrock philosophy of working within the ecosystem, The Book of Outdoor Gardening is a fully illustrated guide to gardening responsibly, featuring a separate color reference to 350 favorite plants. It is for anyone who shares the Smith Hawken belief that every garden counts.
It All Begins With the Soil Nutrients, tilth, deciphering pH, solving common soil problems, how to create and use compost.
Plants Just Want to Live Or how every plant will reward the hand that nurtures it. An anatomy lesson—roots, leaves, flowers. Choosing healthy specimens. Diagnosing and preventing problems without pesticides and other chemicals.
Every Garden Counts From kitchen herbs in a container to a backyard potager to a formal landscape, grand designs, and practical considerations.
The Gardener's Tools The fork, the spade, the shovel, the trowel, the hoe, the weeder, and other essential and useful tools.
Digging In Clearing the land, laying beds, simple digging and double digging, planting and transplanting.
Tending the Garden The maintenance chapter: watering, weeding, harvesting, pruning, mulching. The right thing at the right time.
Start Small, Think Big Starting from seed. Vegetative reproduction: propagating by division, cuttings, or layering.
Adding the Finishing Touches Cobblestone paths and birdbaths, urns, arbors, and garden "rooms."
A Guide to Garden Plants Annuals, perennials, trees, fruits, vegetables, and more—an extensive full-color Plant Guide, including zone, habit, culture, cultivation, related plants, and uses in and out of the garden. Vissza