For anyone who would like to harvest their own vegetables, raise city chickens or convert sunlight to solar energy, this practical book is full of step-by-step projects that will get them started immediately, whether they live in an apartment or a house. View More...
Creasy offers recommendations for selecting and growing the best varieties of Italian vegetables: basil, broccoli rabe, fava beans, and tomatoes. Features interviews with food enthusiast Vicki Sebastiani and California-based chef Paul Bertolli. View More...
Savor your best tomato harvest ever Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and delicious crops in your garden.
Who knew tending to your cacti or spider plant could be so good for you? This go-to-guide introduces you to 20 easy-to-love houseplants. Perfect for budding beginners and rooted in a journey of self awareness, learn through mindful moments of watering, feeding, and simply appreciating our plants, how to befriend our leafy buddies, and ourselves too With plant care tips, fun facts, design hints and projects for botanical recipes and cacti crafts, this feel-good book offers a unique insight into the power plants have on wellbeing. Learn how not to kill your cactus, how to 'bloom where you're ... View More...
A hundred years ago there was a pronounced change in the direction of British gardening. The garden was transformed from a plaything for the rich to a democratic exercise, a hobby for the millions. Few figures were more central to and prominent in this transition than Reginald Farrer, whose passion for alpines would put a rockery in the backyards of countless enthusiasts and whose adventures in Tibet and China collecting elusive and exotic specimens, including the wild tree peony, a new buddleaia, and even an entire new genus called Farreria, were the stuff of legends. But Farrer was a strange... View More...
The work of the English landscape architect Russell Page is documented by photographer Marina Schinz. Included are examples of Page's best work, both early and late. Water and trees, scale and proportion are captured in photographs and text that retrace a legacy reaching across America and Europe. View More...
