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In this comprehensive guide, you’ll find everything you need to know to fall in love with the art of bonsai and create your own bonsai tree that will stand the test of time.

What if I told you we would have to eat eight oranges today to get the same amount of vitamin C our grandparents received from just one orange? It’s time to take your nutrition into your own hands and start growing your own rich, colourful, and sustainable garden.

Marijuana has been grown for thousands of years and has been used as a way of relaxing for much of that time. Long illegal to possess in many places, the world is slowly coming around to the fact that it is less harmful than many other vices, such as alcohol, and can act as an immense relief for many people who suffer with chronic pain.

In Push the Zone: The Good Guide to Growing Tropical Plants Beyond the Tropics, David the Good shares his successes and failures in expanding plant ranges, and equips you with the knowledge you need to add a growing zone or two to your own backyard. Based on original research done in North Florida, Push the Zone is useful for northern gardeners as well. Discover microclimates in your yard, use the thermal mass of walls to grow impossible plants, and uncover growing secrets that will change your entire view of what can grow where!

It can be quite heart-wrenching to witness your beloved houseplants struggling and fading away as time goes by. If you have experienced this, then you crave the special touch that can rejuvenate your plants, transforming them into thriving testaments of your care and understanding.

Turning your gardening passion into a prolific business doesn’t have to be rocket science. We’ll teach you everything about how to grow lavender for profit. If you decided to turn your gardening passion, congratulations! Lavender is the best place to start. While the plant thanks you with its alluring fragrance for nurturing it, it is virtually every industry’s favorite, making it one of the most profitable plants to grow. This lovely member of the mint family will make itself desirable fresh or dried, in soap, incense, or potpourri.

50 Things to Know About Square Food Gardening by Rochel Rieb Maday offers an approach to an easier gardening experience with fabulous results. Most books on gardening teaches you how to garden in traditional rows, but with square foot gardening, you can produce more with less space. Discover how to construct a square foot gardening plot and all the benefits that this method of gardening offers.

I have written this audiobook to aid you in growing your first bonsai. It will help you through the process, even if you do not have much, or any, prior knowledge about these wonderful, miniature trees. We will look at picking the correct bonsai for your first tree, how to create the perfect environment for your tree, how to feed and water your tree, the tools you will need to help you grow your bonsai, as well the important tasks of pruning and repotting.

Alternative medicine has been the standard of many cultures for thousands of years, providing people with safe and organic protection from common ailments. I grew up in a family that traditionally used herbs, and I inherited the passion. I have been regularly using herbs for myself and my family, and herbalism continues to amaze me to no end.

Crea tu propio jardín de verduras orgánicas en casa y olvídate de gastar en los productos costosos del supermercado, incluso si nunca has puesto tus manos en la tierra...¿Agobiado por técnicas de jardinería complicadas y listo para un camino más simple hacia la abundancia? ¿Cansado del ciclo sin fin de quitar malas hierbas, el duro trabajo físico y la lucha constante contra plagas y enfermedades en el jardín? ¿Ilusionado con la idea de tener un jardín que te provea alimentos y prospere con poco mantenimiento?

Profitable winter market gardening – the complete practical guide to growing vegetables year-round in northern climates for local markets. Many small farms shut down during the dark winter months. Yet with the right techniques, equipment, and cultivars, year-round growing can produce the highest quality and tastiest fresh local vegetables, all while banking a profit.

Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal five gently sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil. Jenni Blackmore presents a highly entertaining, personal account of how permaculture can be practiced in adverse conditions, allowing anyone to learn to live more sustainably in a less-than-perfect world.

Growing Vegetables is a one-volume primer on all things veggie! You'll learn about the ways you can make your garden work for you with tons of information on building a business with your products and finding ways to maximize your harvest. There are also chapters devoted to the cultivation and care of dozens of popular vegetables, including recommended varieties, companion plants, and sowing and harvest guides to help you choose the plants that are best for you.

In April 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House's South Lawn. It is a garden with roots in the American past, stretching back to George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, but it is also a garden very much designed for America's future. As fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground, this White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the health and well-being of our children.

Gardening is not only beautiful, but also a very useful hobby. Nothing quite fills you up with a sense of pride like when you see your first plants growing and thriving. And just imagine picking up fresh tomatoes and having them for dinner! Certified organic and delicious, straight from your very own garden. Greenhouse gardening allows you to control the growing circumstances and have plants that yield crops all year round.

What could be fresher than farm-to-table terms than vegetables you've grown at home? The new edition of Vegetable Gardening for Dummies puts you in touch with your roots in a thousands of years old farming tradition by demonstrating how easy it is to grow your own. In a friendly, come-relax-in-my-garden style Charlie Nardozzi-leading horticultural writer and guest expert on shows such as Martha Stewart Living Radio - shares the nutritious results of a lifetime of vegetable-growing experience to delve into the nitty-gritty of micro-farming.

"Heute, am 30. März, um 10 Uhr vormittags, öffnete sich hinter meinem Rücken die erste Blüte des Goldbechers. Drei Tage bewachte ich seine größte Knospe, die einer kleinen goldenen Hülse ähnelt, um nur ja diesen historischen Augenblick nicht zu versäumen; er trat ein, während ich zum Himmel hinaufsah, ob es regnen werde." Karel Čapek (1890 – 1938), seinerzeit der beliebteste und auflagenstärkste tschechische Autor, legt einen zeitlosen humorvollen Führer durch das Gartenjahr vor – für Hobbygärtner, solche, die es werden wollen – und solche, die sich ein wenig über Gärtner amüsieren wollen.

In this gardening classic, the forever adventurous Christopher Lloyd takes us on a tour through the garden, to encourage, to reveal and to overturn the old and accepted when experience prompts him. He advises on cuttings, pruning, the art of compromise and takes another look at Miss Jekyll. Gardening was a passion, and throughout his life, he developed Great Dixter to be one of Britain's greatest gardens.

There is something soul-soothingly simple and refreshing about being in nature, about making the most of the great outdoors, being mindful of Mother Nature's gifts and grabbing spring and summer - and those blue sky, brisk days of autumn and winter - with both hands. But sadly it is a skill we are losing. We are becoming creatures wrapped in walls and trapped by to-do lists, hibernating while the world sprouts, grows and changes.

Spending time in nature is good for both our bodies and minds - but with our hectic lives (not to mention the unreliable British weather), it can be hard to get outside as much as we'd like. But fear not: we've selected some of BBC Radio 4's best nature documentaries to transport you to the great outdoors - and encourage you to take your own trip into the wild.