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For anyone
who has imagined turning their love
of plants into their dream job, this
book offers a realistic overview of
the tools and knowledge needed to
succeed in the nursery business. Within
the greater horticultural community,
Avent and his Plant Delights Nursery
are known for taking a high-spirited
approach to a business that offers
a select inventory of plants appealing
to sophisticated gardeners. Befitting
Avent's effervescent personality and
commercial acumen, he steers clear
of penning a purely technical manual,
and alternatively presents a thoughtful,
realistic overview on how to go about
building and managing an enterprise
based upon cultivating, marketing,
and selling live plants. Avent writes
for those aiming high in terms of
income, as well as individuals who
value freedom over profits, as he
explains options associated with different
types of nurseries. From the importance
of business plans, to essential skills,
mission statements, structuring a
business, and selecting a site, Avent
spells out all the necessary practicalities
he has learned from experience and
sheds light on the stresses one can
expect to encounter as he takes readers
inside every aspect of the nursery
business. Alice Joyce |
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"Teaming
with microbes" is extremely important
for our times. It can lead the way
to a much broader movement to sustainable
gardening practices by winning over
those who have been turned off by
earlier organic 'mumbo-jumbo.' Yes,
it is easy to understand, but it will
not turn off those readers who bring
a sophisticated scientific skepticism
to their reading. It will inspire
them. |
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Using simple techniques and good design the author grows and eats abundant fresh food 12 months of the year in Maine. An excellent resource for cold climate gardeners, with crop profiles and a step-by-step illustration of methods. |
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The plants featured in this useful book are both beautiful and edible. Michael Guerra provides instructions for growing fruits and vegetables just about anywhere, from a small balcony to the deck of a houseboat, in window boxes, pots, or small raised beds. He includes good basic information on soil enrichment and maintenance, and makes suggestions for exactly what to grow depending on individual garden conditions. With many color photographs. |
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The Backyard Berry Book provides the home gardener with a complete guide to growing strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, and kiwi fruit. It also includes details on soil nutrition and testing, important plant nutrients, and mulching.Discusses site selection, propagation, soil, and pest control, and offers advice on growing strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, lingonberries, currants, grapes, and kiwifruit. |
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For every
gardener desiring to add apples, pears,
cherries, and other tree fruit to
their landscape here are hints and
solid information from a professional
horticulturist and experienced fruit
grower. The Backyard Orchardist includes
help on selecting the best fruit trees
and information about each stage of
growth and development, along with
tips on harvest and storage of the
fruit. Those with limited space will
learn about growing dwarf fruit trees
in containers. |
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Uncommon Fruits
for Every GardenBy Lee Reich 2004, 308pp, Illustrations by Vicki Herzfeld Arlein
Lee Reich provides a valuable guide to uncommon fruits and berries, which add an adventurous flavor to any garden. Though names like jujube, juneberry, maypop, and shipova may seem exotic at first glance, these fruits offer ample rewards to the gardener willing to go only slightly off the beaten path at local nurseries. Reliable even in the toughest garden situations, cold-hardy, and pest- and disease-resistant, they are as enticing to the beginner as to the advanced gardener. This expanded sequel to the author's celebrated Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention offers new fruits, new varieties, and new photos and illustrations to entice the reader into an exciting world of garden pleasure. |
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Enormously valuable reference book for cool/temperate climates. Describes plant characteristics and cultural requirements in depth. |
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Even in these health-conscious times, with demand for organically grown foods fast increasing, it's still hard to find a good-tasting, locally grown, organic apple. Faced with an impressive rogue's gallery of potential insect pests--curculio, codling moth, and others--most orchard "experts" will tell you flat out that growing apples organically is impossible. For decades fruit growers have sprayed their trees with toxic chemicals in an attempt to control a range of insect and fungal pests. Yet it is possible to grow apples responsibly, by applying the intuitive knowledge of our great-grandparents with the fruits of modern scientific research and innovation. Fortunately, Michael Phillips and growers like him didn't listen. For several years now, Phillips has been "doing the impossible" at Lost Nation Orchard--growing apples successfully using no artificial pesticides or fertilizers. His secret lies in hard work, creative marketing, and a willingness to observe and learn from nature.The definitive guide to growing apples wisely, naturally, and with gentle impact on the earth. Since The Apple Grower first appeared in 1998, orchardist Michael Phillips has continued his research with apples, which have been called “organic’s final frontier.” In this new edition of his widely acclaimed work, Phillips delves even deeper into the mysteries of growing good fruit with minimal inputs. Some of the cuttingedge topics he explores include:
The author’s personal voice and clear-eyed advice have already made The Apple Grower a classic among small-scale growers and home orchardists. In fact, anyone serious about succeeding with apples needs to have this updated edition on their bookshelf. |
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There's something refreshing about a gardening book that doesn't start out with soil. Smith (author of The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse) puts off the nitty-gritty subject until chapter nine. In the meantime, he covers such subjects as vegetables, flowers and herbs, light and temperature, ground beds and containers, and crop spacing and scheduling. This is not a complicated book; the operative word for it is "companion." And while some of the advice is rather elementary, it does lead the reader painlessly through the steps and requirements of owning and gardening in a greenhouse. Undoubtedly, Smith's role as a lecturer and host of a radio gardening show has also inspired him to write in terms simple enough for beginners. His saving grace is a quiet sense of humor that's evident throughout the book--from his warnings about weather to his "biased opinion of hydroponics." When Smith does get around to soil, he goes at it from the point of view of providing plants with a healthy root system--covering soil pH and nutrients and organic soil amendments in beds and pots. The extensive final chapter is devoted to everything that can go wrong--i.e., pests and diseases, for which Smith recommends mostly organic and biologic controls. As he points out, a "greenhouse or sunroom garden is probably the closest garden you'll ever live with." This is a book to live with. Illustrated. Garden Book Club alternate. |
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 Building
Living Soil booklet32pp., $7
Basic understanding of and approaches to soil health. Soil fertility, Earthworms, Cover Cropping, Getting the Most out of Your Compost Pile, the Art and Science of Sheet Mulching, Rhizosphere Wars: Tree & Soil Health, Keyline Planning for Soil Improvement, Very Intensive Beds, Silt as a Resource, Roof Gardens Using Leaves, Soil Pesticide Detox. |
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