Grow Your Garden | Carnegie-Stout Public Library

1) The cook's herb garden

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Cox, Jeff

2) Epic tomatoes: how to select & grow the best varieties of all time

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LeHoullier, Craig

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Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes--from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to the various pests and diseases of tomatoes and explains how best to avoid them.

3) You bet your garden guide to growing great tomatoes

Author

McGrath, Mike

4) Microgreens: how to grow nature's own superfood

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Hill, Fionna

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A guide to growing microgreens--tiny seedlings of herbs and vegetables--in container gardens, with information on twenty-five popular varieties, recipes for using them, and tips on care and cultivation.

5) Microgreens: a guide to growing nutrient-packed greens

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Franks, Eric

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MICROGREENS A Guide to Growing Nutrient-Packed Greens DUBBED A CULINARY BUZZWORD by National Public Radio, microgreens-vegetables harvested soon after sprouting-are expected to be one of 2009's hottest food trends. With simple instruction, Microgreens teaches how to plant, grow, and harvest microgreens from one's own garden. The small amount of space needed to grow microgreens-a porch, patio, deck, or balcony will do-allows anyone to easily incorporate...

6) The spare-time gardener: tips and tricks for those on the go

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Freeman, Barbara Hill

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Offering tips on finding your own gardening style, choosing climate-appropriate plants, creating low-maintenance landscaping and hardscaping, and weeding efficiently and effectively, Freeman understands that there's no room for scolding, but there is a real need for encouragement and good humor.

7) Gardening basics for dummies

8) Month-by-month gardening in the prairie lands: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota

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Barash, Cathy Wilkinson

9) Prairie lands gardener's guide: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota

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Barash, Cathy Wilkinson

10) Midwest fruit & vegetable gardening: plant, grow, and harvest the best edibles

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Elzer-Peters, Katie

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This book includes planting, care, and harvesting information for more than 60 fruits, vegetables and herbs; popular selections, from arugula to zucchini; a variety of additional common and unusual fruits, vegetables, and herbs; and advice on garden planning, creating the perfect soil, watering, and more.

11) The layered garden design lessons for year-round beauty from Brandywine Cottage

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Culp, David L

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"Gardenmaking, in its finest form, is a celebration of life and of love. David and his book epitomize this." -Lauren Springer Ogden Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering-interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom...

12) Grow great grub: organic food from small spaces

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Trail, Gayla

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Presents advice for home gardeners on how to grow one's own food in limited spaces, providing coverage of such topics as container plants, organic pest control, and preserving home-grown foods.

13) Veg out: a stress-free guide to creating your first vegetable garden

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Rodino, Heather

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"Watching delicate seedlings sprout from the ground and plucking cute cherry tomatoes at the peak of ripeness-if this is your idea of living the dream, you'll want this friendly guide. Gardening expert Heather Rodino teaches the basics of growing your own vegetables, such as how to choose the right plants for a climate and guarding the crop from hungry critters. Included are 30 profiles of beginner-friendly vegetables and herbs with detailed instructions...

14) The ecological gardener: how to create beauty and biodiversity from the soil up

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Rees-Warren, Matt

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"Transform your garden into a self-sustaining haven for nature and wildlife. Ecological garden designer Matt Rees-Warren shares inspirational design ideas and practical projects to help you create a garden that is both beautiful today and sustainable tomorrow. The Ecological Gardener will give you the tools to create an abundant garden from the soil up - a garden that welcomes birds and bees and showcases native planting and wild flowers, with minimal...

15) Grow great grub: organic food from small spaces

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Trail, Gayla

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Presents advice for home gardeners on how to grow one's own food in limited spaces, providing coverage of such topics as container plants, organic pest control, and preserving home-grown foods.

16) The organic garden: green and easy

Author

Shepherd, Allan

17) Grow now: how we can save our health, communities, and planet-one garden at a time

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Murphy, Emily

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"What is an easy, actionable way to put excess atmospheric carbon back in the ground and reduce our contributions to emissions and food waste? By creating our own "climate victory gardens." We now recognize that plots in towns and cities are critical to supporting planetary diversity, and by instituting organic, regenerative practices and growing some of our own food, we can sequester carbon as well as shift toward living in a more ecologically responsible...