This gardening guide provides advice on planning layouts, selecting what to grow, crop rotation and weed control.

Beds: Labour-Saving, Space-Saving, More Productive Gardening

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pears, Pauline

Gardening & Landscape Design

Search Pr Ltd

Fully updated and revised, this new edition explains how to make, and make the best of, compost by recycling household and garden waste. The book reveals how to grow plants that are strong and healthy; how to produce beautiful fruit, vegetables, and flowers; and how to nurture both patio and house plants. It also guides gardeners through all the stages, from why one should compost, what one can compost, and how to build a simple heap to how to use compost, supplement compost with green manures, and retain water. Beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photographs and illustrations throughout, the pages are packed with practical advice and helpful information.

All About Compost: Recycling Household and Garden Waste

Search Press

Easy, organic composting is now at your fingertips! Whether you have a full-size garden or a balcony in the city, you can recycle your household waste in an environmentally efficient manner. This book covers everything from wormeries to community composting, and is packed with trouble-shooting advice. Learn the sustainable, low-cost way to producing rich, fertile soil in your own backyard.

The Organic Book of Compost

Hobble Creek

Produced in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, the titles in this series have become standard works of practical gardening reference. Each book is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step illustrations that clearly guide the reader through all the essential techniques of successful gardening. This guide dispels myths about organic gardening and explains all aspects of organic garden management, including the planning of an organically-balanced environment, soil preparation, pests and diseases, weed control, and crop care and cultivation. It also contains a year-round checklist for instant season-by-season planning.

Organic Gardening (RHS Encyclopedia of Practical Gardening)

The Royal Horticultural Society

Stickland, Sue

Mitchell Beazley

For aspiring gardeners wishing to start growing their own organic vegetables—or for those who already garden and wish to adopt organic methods—this handy resource, culled from considerable experience and expertise, offers an accessible and easy-to-follow reference. Packed with everything gardeners need to know about raising chemical-free vegetables in natural environments, as well as essential information on soil types and composting, this companion aids in yielding a flourishing and bountiful crop each and every season. Buttressed with inspiring images, this guidebook includes an organizational plan beneficial to experience gardeners and beginners alike.

The Garden Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables

Arts & Photography

This practical book is a valuable aid for all gardeners intrerested in creating a safe, natural environment in which to grow healthy, and tasty, fruit and vegetables. Comprehensive, full-colour identification of garden friends and enemies. Information on the types of trees, shrubs, flowers and weeks that attract beneficial creatures. Advice on how to avoid pest problems by improving the soil and using a crop rotation. Hints on protecting plants from pests. Colour photographs, charts and diagrams throughout.

Pests: How to control them on fruit and vegetables (HDRA Organic Gardening)

RE-ISSUE Learn how to keep your plants strong and healthy, how to produce beautiful fruit, vegetables and flowers, and how to keep your patio and house plants healthy. The book guides your through all the stages, from why you should compost, what you can compost, building a simple heap and containers, to how to use your compost, supplementing your compost with green manures, and how to retain water. Beautifully illustrated, with step-by-step photographs and illustrations throughout, the pages are packed with practical advice and helpful information.

The Garden Organic Guide to Making Compost: Recycling Household and Garden Waste

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