Chemistry of Living Things (Building Blocks of Chemistry)

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Adams, William D.

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With more than 200 lists of plants and garden resources, this guide has the answers on what to plant where and on how to handle the toughest of Texas conditions. William D. Adams and Lois Trigg Chaplin offer numerous recommendations, noting the best growing zones and bringing together helpful hints and information from dozens of gardeners, nurseries, and horticultural professionals across the state.

The Lone Star Gardener's Book of Lists

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Chaplin, Lois Trigg

Gardening & Landscape Design

Taylor Trade Publishing

Everyone knows the delight of a fresh tree-ripened peach - it's no secret that homegrown fruit is better than anything you'll ever find at the market. But with the South's temperate climate and long growing season, southern growers planning home orchards have special needs and concerns. Now, in the most comprehensive book written exclusively for southern gardeners, horticultural experts William Adams and Thomas LeRoy show you how to create a successful home orchard that's just right for you and your region. Growing Fruits and Nuts in the South is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide available. You'll find information on getting started, common-sense pest and disease control, and training and pruning techniques. Specific chapters, on everything from apples to specialty fruits and pecans, explain how to care for your trees and plants and give you hundreds of disease-resistant varieties that have high yields and produce the best fruits and nuts. William Adams and Thomas LeRoy, both veteran agents for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, give you the basics and much more: a special chapter, complete with sample plot plans, that explains how to develop small-acreage and pick-your-own orchards; charts, tables, and illustrations that show ideal planting distances, your soil's fertilization needs, potential disease problems, and, for the adventurous, grafting techniques and sources for fruit and nut catalogs, orchardists' supplies, low-toxicity pesticides, traps, beneficial insects, and information on state extension horticulture offices throughout the South. With 100 gorgeous color photographs, Growing Fruits and Nuts in the South, is the only sourcebook you'll ever need. Now you can enjoy the superior quality of homegrown fruits and nuts fresh from your own backyard.

Growing Fruits and Nuts in the South: The Definitive Guide

Leroy, Thomas R.

Taylor Pub

Commonsense Vegetable Gardening for the South advises how to plan a garden, prepare the soil, cope with the weather, start a garden with either seeds or transplants, and gives tips for gardening in containers. This book lists hundreds of varieties, including old favorites, gourmet "delectables," herbs, and new varieties of both warm and cool-season vegetables.

Commonsense Vegetable Gardening for the South

Shrubs and Vines for Southern Landscapes

Science & Math

Technology

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A kitchen garden, or potager, is a celebration of the seasons: brimming with vegetables, herbs, flowers, and even fruit trees, it's our link with nature and a source for fresh produce. The kitchen garden has always been an important part of life in the rural south, at times meaning the difference between being well-fed or going to bed hungry. In recent times, the kitchen garden has become fashionable, and now more and more homeowners (in cities, suburbs, as well as the country) are reaping the delicious rewards of growing their own food. A kitchen garden needs little more than a small raised bed, so an aspiring gardener with only a modest backyard will have plenty of room to get started. Have a sprawling yard and an appetitie for an agricultural adventure? The kitchen gardener can try his hand at some produce requiring a little more space: fruit trees, corn, or pumpkins. Starting with location and soil preparation (where most gardens thrive or fail), authors William D. Adams and Thomas R. LeRoy will take you ste-by-step into the world of the southern kitchen garden. Planting guides for each fruit and vegetable, useful information on propogation and pest-control, recipes scattered throughout, and Adams' own beautiful photography make The Southern Kitchen Garden truly essential reading for all gardeners ready to bring along their produce from seed to the supper table.

The Southern Kitchen Garden: Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers Essential for the Southern Cook

LeRoy, Tom

A garden-grown tomato, sliced and laid across a grilled hamburger . . . Sweet, plump cherry tomatoes in a crisp, green salad . . . Sauce made from fresh tomatoes, ladled over a steaming bowl of pasta . . . Spicy tomato salsa . . . Savory tomato soup . . . Is there any single vegetable as mouth-watering as the tomato? And yet, as thousands of people—tired of mushy, half-green, and tasteless tomatoes bought from supermarkets—have discovered, much more is involved in growing your own than simply putting a plant or two in the ground and expecting to harvest luscious tomatoes a few weeks later. William D. Adams draws on more than thirty years’ experience to provide a complete, step-by-step guide to success in the tomato patch. Growing good tomatoes requires a gardener’s attention to a variety of factors, and Adams begins by explaining the basics of soil preparation, planting, feeding, caging, and watering. He also outlines the pros and cons of standard, hybrid, heirloom, and cherry varieties, sharing tips about old favorites and suggesting new varieties. After the tomatoes are chosen, planted, and thriving under his tutelage, Adams prepares growers for the insects, diseases, and other visitors they are likely to encounter, warning that "gardeners are not the only ones that love tomatoes." He ends by offering a few words about “tomato kin folk” (peppers, eggplants, tomatillos, and potatoes), along with a source list of selected suppliers. Liberally sprinkled with the author’s easy humor and illustrated throughout with excellent photographs, The Texas Tomato Lover’s Handbook has everything you’ll need to assure a bumper crop, year after year.

The Texas Tomato Lover's Handbook (Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series)

Texas A&M University Press

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