Growing Green

The average person knows little if anything about hydroponics; however, the practice of growing plants without soil has been known and used for more than 1,000 years. This audiobook contains tons of tips and tricks based on years of experience that will save you lots of money and lots of time and frustration in doing silly things easily avoidable if only someone had told you before.

The average person knows little if anything about hydroponics; however, the practice of growing plants without soil has been known and used for more than 1000 years. And the good news is that with modern technology, hydroponics has never been so simple to implement! Hydroponic Organic Gardening will teach you how to set up the greenhouse, how to set up the irrigation system so that it can be automatically controlled, how to deal with heating and cooling, and how to control the natural sunlight if you have it available. And there is more.

Sie ist quirlig, hat eine blühende Fantasie, hasst ihre roten Haare und findet für alles die richtigen Worte. Mit über 50 Millionen weltweit verkauften Exemplaren ist Anne auf Green Gables einer der größten Erfolge der kanadischen Literatur. Seit über 100 Jahren inspiriert das Mädchen, das sich selbst mit einem E am Ende schreibt, weil es "so viel schöner aussieht", nicht nur Astrid Lindgren, sondern auch Millionen von Kindern auf der ganzen Welt. Jetzt erscheint der beliebte Klassiker endlich ungekürzt als zeitloser Hörgenuss.

Francine lives down the street from a Hollywood film studio, adores screen dreamboat Montgomery Clift, and sometimes sees her home life as a scene from a movie: Dinner at the Greens. She wishes she really were a movie star, brave and glamorous and always ready to say the right thing. In reality, she's a "pink and freckled" 13-year-old, and she doesn't always speak up because she's afraid she'll get in trouble. She's comfortable following her father's advice: "Don't get involved".

Cami is a chameleon who is very content and quite proud of her greenish glow. She won't change for anything! No matter what season, what the circumstance, day or night, she is not interested in blending in. She'd rather spend her days and nights in the perfect shade of green.

My name is Zelah Green and I’m a cleanaholic. I spend most of my life running away from germs. And dirt. And people. And I’m just about doing OK and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with loads of strangers. It’s stuck in the middle of nowhere. Great. There’s Alice who’s anorexic. Caro who cuts herself. Silent Sol who has the cutest smile. And then there’s me. It’ll be fine, I say to myself. It’s all going to be OK...A touching, funny and sympathetic story for young adults about a teenage girl with OCD, 'Zelah Green' was a winner of the Manchester Children’s Book Awards 2010.

Grandpa Green wasn't always a gardener. He was a farm boy and a kid with chickenpox and a soldier and, most of all, an artist. In this captivating new audiobook, listeners follow Grandpa Green's great-grandson into a garden he created, a fantastic world where memories are handed down in the fanciful shapes of topiary trees and imagination recreates things forgotten.

In the fourth book in Alyssa Milano's funny and relatable middle-grade series, Hope Roberts is determined to save the world - literally. Hope has already gotten her school to add more recycling bins and coordinate a carpooling program. But it's not enough. Hope wants to do more to protect the environment before it's too late. But will Hope's plans to help the planet backfire?

Aquaponics is the revolutionary science where plants are grown in water instead of soil. This water also cultures fish. The wastes produced by the farmed fish or other aquatic creatures supplies the nutrients for the plants, and in turn purifies the water. Aquaponics, when set up correctly, can, be self-sustaining and, be a healthy source for both fish and plants. Aquaponics at Home is a beginner's guide to this hobby or business, whichever way you want to look at it. You are given the fundamentals to this wonderful and exciting way to garden.

Ellen Klages’ debut novel, The Green Glass Sea, was lavished with praise, including the Scott O’Dell Award for historical fiction. This sequel continues the story of science enthusiast Dewey Kerrigan, now living with her friend Suze’s family in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after her father’s death. Against the backdrop of America’s quest for the moon, Dewey tries to find her place in the world.

Aaaaaaaaghhhhhhh! Dene screamed at the TV. A commercial for ice-cream had just come on and it starred those twins Evie and Cameron Billingham. We've never spoken to them but we just know they're vomitus. If you walked into an audition and the terrible twins were there, you could forget about it! The first book in an entertaining series of short novels about four girls who attend The Shooting Star drama school.

Amber's parents just aren't acting the way she thinks parents should. Sometimes her dad goes out on dates when he is supposed to be spending time with her. And her Mom went to Disneyland with Aunt Pam while Amber was with her dad (not fair!). Then Mom and Max decide to get married even sooner and move to a new house—maybe even a new town. Some kids seem to have no problems . . . and that makes Amber Brown green with envy.

Farah is the new girl at school and the dupatta covering her head makes her just a little different from the other students. Because she hasn't learned the English language yet, she knows that some people might not be very friendly. The class takes a field trip to an apple orchard. Farah sees that some of the children want to become friends with her on the hay ride. When it comes time to make the apple cider, however, other classmates protest as she drops the only green apple into a vat full of ripe red ones.

Cam can hardly wait for her school's Green Day assembly. That's when she and her fellow students will learn how many dollars they have harvested in their recycling campaign. But when all their hard-earned money disappears without a trace, Cam determines to use her photographic memory to solve this baffling mystery. Young listeners will also enjoy Cam Jansen and the Secret Service Mystery.

Junior Blossom has created the most spectacular invention of all time: a homemade UFO. The Green Phantom took all of the garbage bags and Day-Glo paint Junior could find, but now it requires one more very special ingredient. Although Junior needs help, his family seems too busy to care about him. Then when Pap and his dog, Mud, don't come home from town, the Blossoms are pulled apart even farther. Are Pap and Mud in serious trouble? Can a Blossom promise bring everyone back together again?

It starts off as a normal week for Rowena. A car full of stewed apples. A police call. A desperate struggle to keep Dad off national TV.

When Jasmine and her best friend, Tom, visit their neighbor Mr. Hobson to help him with some chores, they discover that he is selling his farm and moving to a nearby assisted living facility. Because Mr. Hobson won’t have a home for his beloved donkey, Mistletoe, anymore, he is planning to send him to a faraway sanctuary. Jasmine doesn’t want to see them separated, so she hatches a plan to keep Mistletoe at Oak Tree Farm, where Mr. Hobson could visit him whenever he liked.

With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitiviy, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly book. This book includes lots of easy, smart ideas on how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good - from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper, to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways.

Author L. M. Montgomery first brought Anne Shirley onto the page in 1908, and this independent and inspiring character has been capturing readers' hearts ever since. The story of an orphaned girl who is sent to Avonlea on Prince Edward Island to live with the Cuthbert family includes adventure, romance, and an ensemble of iconic characters like Diana Barry and Gilbert Blythe.

When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert try to adopt a boy to help out with their farm on Prince Edward Island, they are completely unprepared for the 11-year-old girl who is mistakenly sent instead. Anne is feisty, red-haired, and never stops talking. She is also smart and incredibly imaginative, with a huge capacity for love that wins over shy Matthew, crusty Marilla, and their entire community of Avonlea.