Hide An environmentally friendly sourcebook that is actually two books in one, providing everything the gardener needs to know about setting up a healthy growing environment within a sunspace, plus a complete guide to growing flowers, vegetables and herbs in the greenhouse. Highly recommended.

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This classic paperback shows how to create beautiful native-plant gardens. Through 500 color photographs of 35 gardens, Ken Druse introduces nature's original plant communities — grasslands, drylands, wetlands and woodlands. Listings of plant sources, places to visit, and societies and organizations.

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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, a MOTHER EARTH NEWS book, helps you 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.

About the Contributor:

Steve Solomon is a well-known west coast gardener and author of five previous books, including Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades which has appeared in five editions.

Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is recommending books to its readers. For more than 30 years, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.

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This 344-page book combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help you build fertile soil, promote biodiversity and increase natural habitat in your own garden.

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You can have a good garden in clay with proper maintenance and a little elbow grease. This e-handbook shows you how to enrich the soil and improve its tilth along with long-term strategies to maintain the health of the soil. This valuable resource for gardeners, has tips on mulching, organic additives, watering and which plants are especially suited for clay soil. 32 pages.

INSTANT DELIVERY ITEM: When you order this e-book* we will provide you with a link for the e-book on the confirmation page. Simply click on the link and save the file to your computer — no more waiting for delivery or paying expensive shipping and handling fees.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Wiser Living E-Handbooks are packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects right at your fingertips. By supporting digital products like this one you are helping save millions of trees a year. Order your downloadable PDF and start reading today!

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Readily available plant and animal residues can supply an extremely valuable source of plant foods that over the years will reward you with better soil, better crops, and reduced grocery and fertilizer bills.

This e-handbook is aimed at helping you do just that as inexpensively as possible. Topics discussed in this handy reference include soil compostion, air and water conditions, planting tips and growing your own green manure. A great resource for discovering how composting and mulching can richly benefit the soil, how to use these materials and what to use to make them. 36 pages.

INSTANT DELIVERY ITEM: When you order this e-book* we will provide you with a link for the e-book on the confirmation page. Simply click on the link and save the file to your computer — no more waiting for delivery or paying expensive shipping and handling fees.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Wiser Living E-Handbooks are packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects right at your fingertips. By supporting digital products like this one you are helping save millions of trees a year. Order your downloadable PDF and start reading today!

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Buying plants at the nursery is a fast and simple way to get a garden growing, so why bother starting your own plants from seed? Because growing your own plants from seed is more economical.

This e-handbook describes what a seed is, what you need to get started, environmental conditions, transplanting outdoors and frost protection. With a little extra work and care, you can have the flower garden you want at a fraction of the cost. 36 pages.

INSTANT DELIVERY ITEM: When you order this e-book* we will provide you with a link for the e-book on the confirmation page. Simply click on the link and save the file to your computer — no more waiting for delivery or paying expensive shipping and handling fees.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Wiser Living E-Handbooks are packed with practical information, innovative ideas and creative projects right at your fingertips. By supporting digital products like this one you are helping save millions of trees a year. Order your downloadable PDF and start reading today!

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What is wide-row planting? It is simply a matter of broadcasting seeds in bands anywhere from ten inches to three or more feet wide. Wide-row planting saves time and space, makes harvesting easier and improves quality of crops.

Success to wide-row planting is described in this e-handbook. The keys to success include good soil preparation, planning and staking out the garden and proper thinning and weeding. 33 pages.

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Gardening in containers gives the plant lover, no matter what size his garden may be, the extra gift of flexibility. If you live in a condominium, apartment, or small home where space is at a premium, container gardening takes on a new significance.

This e-handbook covers the basics of successful gardening in containers such as how to plant and maintain in and around your house or apartment. Chapters include:

• Containers
• Planting Mixes
• How to Plant
• Fertilizing
• Watering
• Pests and Problems
• Flowers for Containers
• Vegetables in Containers
• Herbs in Containers