Gardening Techniques

It’s no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms…the long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep, and gardeners around the world are feeling the effects. The Climate Change Garden is the first book to reveal which types of gardens are better suited to deal with such extremes and which techniques, practices, and equipment can be put to good use in our gardens to help temper the issues.

Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."

Grow your own garden using an aquaponics design. You can have fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs every day in your own backyard! Learn today how to build your own self-sustainable aquaponics garden. This is a great place to start if you are interested in learning more about self-sustaining aquaponics farming. This book will guide you on how to build your own aquaponics garden in your backyard. This book will take you step-by-step, explaining everything you need to know.

How would you like to grow your own organic fruits, herbs, and vegetables? With hydroponics, you can! Hydroponics is the art of growing fruits and vegetables without soil. If you are into homesteading, hydroponics is the way to go. If you apply what you learn in Hydroponics 101, your life will never be the same!

Learn the proven steps and strategies on hydroponic gardening to grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs at home. In this guide, you will learn how to set up your own hydroponic garden with some tips, strategies, and cautions to get started right away.

This book gives you ways to beat insect infestations on your houseplants and tips on preparing plants for winter. Learn how to raise orchids and African violets, how to grow a Christmas cactus the way your grandma did, and how to make poinsettias rebloom. You can learn how to make a dish garden and terrarium. You'll learn the right way to water your houseplants. When insects afflict your houseplants, consult this book.

A gardening book unlike any other, RHS How to Garden When You Rent brings together projects, inspiration, and handy know-how specifically tailored to people who rent. With chapters designed around lease lengths, listeners will find something for their outdoor space, whether they plan to rent for just a few months or expect to stay in their home for a several years or more. Written by Matthew Pottage, this must-have book combines creative ideas with serious gardening expertise—all without breaking the bank or needing countless hours of hands-on work.

This down-to-earth, lively, and informative audiobook is just what the home composter needs. Its short essays feel conversational and friendly. Figure out how to set up composting in your backyard. Learn about the ins and outs of composting - what goes into the compost and what stays out. Determine what to do about critters in the compost. Discover some creative ways to use your compost. Feel good that you can join the green planet movement by not moving any farther than your own backyard.

Step outdoors and let your outside space nourish all of your senses and settle a busy mind. Discover how to garden to enliven all five senses - touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste - to build a connection with the world around you and bring joy and wonder into the everyday. Find out how simply being outside can help to ground and calm you, and learn what plants to grow to nourish both your mental and physical wellbeing.

Do you want to learn how to design and build your own inexpensive hydroponics system for growing plants in water? Hydroponics is a technique for developing plants, without soil, that has been used for a huge number of years.

In this audiobook, you'll be introduced to a brief history of gardening for fairies, discover an in-depth look at each component of a fairy garden, and find inspiration for the design of your own. This book will answer every question you've had on the subject and probably even a few that you didn't have.

Bonsai - das Wort klingt für unsere Ohren gleichzeitig fernöstlich-exotisch und doch vertraut. Fast jeder hat schon einmal ein solch eigentümlich geformtes Gewächs in Büro oder Wohnzimmer stehen gehabt, aber die Wenigsten wissen, dass hinter den Miniaturbäumen eine ganze philosophische Kultur steckt. Denn tatsächlich offenbart die Zucht der Bäumchen ein Universum aus hingebungsvoller Gärtnerkunst, uraltem Zen-Buddhismus, meditativer Versenkung und tiefer Naturverbundenheit.

Composting, and how to, is the theme that runs through this book, which also looks at the state of the world and adds a few folk tales and essays that may provoke your mind.