Mark Diacono

Lia Leendertz

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Typically, vegetable gardening is about the long view: peas sown in spring aren't harvested until summer, and tomatoes started indoors in February can't be eaten until July. But it's not true for all plants. Some things can be planted and eaten in weeks, days, even hours. The Speedy Vegetable Garden highlights more than 50 quick crops, with complete information on how to sow, grow, and harvest each plant, and sumptuous photography that provides inspiration and a visual guide for when to harvest. In addition to instructions for growing, it also provides recipes that highlight each crop’s unique flavor, like Chickpea sprout hummus, stuffed tempura zucchini flowers, and a paella featuring calendula. Sprouted seeds are the fastest. Microgreens can be harvested in weeks: cilantro, 14 days after planting; arugula and fennel in 10 days. And a handful of vegetable varieties grow more quickly than their slower relatives, like dwarf French beans (60 days), cherry tomatoes (65 days), and early potatoes (75 days). The Speedy Vegetable Garden puts fresh, seed-to-table food at your fingertips, fast!

The Speedy Vegetable Garden

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Mel Bartholomew

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space

Square Foot Gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden, whether you're growing an urban garden, or have an entire backyard. That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million books teaching how to become a successful DIY square foot gardener. Mel developed his techniques back in the early 1980s and has been teaching them around the world ever since. In the process, he has made improvements and refinements, and has continually adapted his practices to keep pace with modern times. In this second edition, Bartholomew furthers his discussion on one of the most popular gardening trends today: vertical gardening. He also explains how you can make gardening fun for kids by teaching them the square foot method. Rich with new, full-color images and updated tips for selecting materials, this highly produced edition will bring you up to speed with Mel's industry-changing insights.

All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Edition

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Daryl Wood Gerber

Texas

Fairy garden store owner Courtney Kelly believes in inviting magic into your life. But when uninvited trouble enters her shop, she'll need more than a sprinkling of her imagination to solve a murder . . .

Since childhood, Courtney has loved fairies. After her mother died when she was ten, she lost touch with that feeling of magic. A year ago, at age twenty-nine, she rediscovered it when she left her father's landscaping business to spread her wings and start a fairy garden business and teashop in beautiful Carmel, California. At Open Your Imagination, she teaches garden design and sells everything from fairy figurines to tinkling wind chimes and trickling fountains. Now she's starting a book club tea.

But the light of the magical world she's created inside her shop is darkened one night when she discovers neighboring dog-grooming business owner Mick Watkins dead beside a fountain. To make matters worse, the police suspect Courtney of the crime. To clear her name and find the real killer, Courtney will have to wing it. But she's about to get a little help from an unexpected new friend . . .

Sprinkling of Murder A

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Great book. Has some rough edges on the cover but it’s in good shape.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

Presents a guide to all aspects of designing, cultivating, constructing, and maintaining a garden

The Essential Garden Book

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John Ferguson

Burkhard Mucke

Excellent like new condition as shown! All four books included! 2x hardcover 2x paperback, all in great condition!

These books are also listed for sale individually (see my other listings)!

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

This highly original, practical, magnificently illustrated gardener's calendar and advice book focuses on the ornamental aspects of gardening--and fittingly, it's filled with splendid full-color photos of gardens in full bloom. The authors progress from season to season, offering tips to help gardeners maintain an attractive landscape throughout the year.

The Gardener's Year Book, Garden Accents, How to build ponds and waterfalls, water gardening book bundle

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Discover the hidden beauty of the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This hardcover book published by HarperCollins is perfect for readers of all ages. The story takes you on an adventure with Mary, a young girl who discovers a secret garden and brings it back to life with the help of her friends. 

Travel through time as you immerse yourself in this classic tale of friendship, family, and adventure. The book is written in English. It's a great addition to any bookshelf and makes a wonderful gift. Get lost in the magic of the Secret Garden today!

New Jersey

Celebrate an unforgettable classic with this gorgeous hardcover edition, including full-color illustrations.

This beautiful hardcover edition includes Tasha Tudor's iconic illustrations in full color, making it the perfect collector's edition or a wonderful gift for young readers.

When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors.

The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of two unexpected companions, Mary discovers a way in--and becomes determined to bring the garden back to life.

The Secret Garden

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Colorado

Flower Gardens is a personal treatise by one of England's foremost garden writers, a guide to choosing the best flowering plants for any garden and arranging them harmoniously in their setting.Penelope Hobhouse begins by discussing flower qualities - color form, habit season and scent -in relation to the whole plant and its contribution to the garden.Different flower garden styles are discussed in subsequent chapters - from natural gardening, through classic flower borders and beds, to more manicured styles of elegant formality. Delightful photographs of featured gardens demonstrate each of these themes.The plant catalogue includes more than 700 flowering plants, with detailed information on how and where to use them in garden composition.

Flower Gardens

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Tamar Haspel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called “first-hand food”—meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us. To Boldly Grow is “part memoir, part how-to guide and wholly delightful” (Washington Post). Journalist and self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” Tamar Haspel is on a mission: to show us that raising or gathering our own food is not as hard as it’s often made out to be. When she and her husband move from Manhattan to two acres on Cape Cod, they decide to adopt a more active approach to their diet: raising chickens, growing tomatoes, even foraging for mushrooms and hunting their own meat. They have more ambition than practical know-how, but that’s not about to stop them from trying…even if sometimes their reach exceeds their (often muddy) grasp. With “first-hand food” as her guiding principle, Haspel embarks on a grand experiment to stop relying on experts to teach her the ropes (after all, they can make anything grow), and start using her own ingenuity and creativity. Some of her experiments are a rousing success (refining her own sea salt). Others are a spectacular failure (the turkey plucker engineered from an old washing machine). Filled with practical tips and hard-won wisdom, To Boldly Grow allows us to journey alongside Haspel as she goes from cluelessness to competence, learning to scrounge dinner from the landscape around her and discovering that a direct connection to what we eat can utterly change the way we think about our food--and ourselves.

To Boldly Grow

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Ellen Herrick

Every garden is a story, waiting to be told…

At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate.

Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife Stella, Sorrel is shocked by the desolate state of the walled garden. Generations have tried—and failed—to bring it back to glory. Sorrel senses heartbreak and betrayal here, perhaps even enchantment. Intrigued by the house’s history—especially the haunting tapestries that grace its walls—and increasingly drawn to Stella’s enigmatic brother, Sorrel sets to work. And though she knows her true home is across the sea with her sisters, instinct tells her that the English garden’s destiny is entwined with her own, if she can only unravel its secrets…

Tennessee





"Captivating [...] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love." --Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal

Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life.

Every garden is a story, waiting to be told...

At the nursery she runs with her sisters on the New England coast, Sorrel Sparrow has honed her rare gift for nurturing plants and flowers. Now that reputation, and a stroke of good timing, lands Sorrel an unexpected opportunity: reviving a long-dormant Shakespearean garden on an English country estate.

Arriving at Kirkwood Hall, ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife Stella, Sorrel is shocked by the desolate state of the walled garden. Generations have tried--and failed--to bring it back to glory. Sorrel senses heartbreak and betrayal here, perhaps even enchantment. Intrigued by the house's history--especially the haunting tapestries that grace its walls--and increasingly drawn to Stella's enigmatic brother, Sorrel sets to work. And though she knows her true home is across the sea with her sisters, instinct tells her that the English garden's destiny is entwined with her own, if she can only unravel its secrets...

 

The Forbidden Garden

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This book is pre-owned in good condition with minor scratches and wear on cover. Please look at all pictures for more details.

This book breaks the work you need to do to keep your garden in perfect shape into daily five minute chunks. Following this little and often approach, you'll be amazed how much you can achieve.

Laetitia Maklouf is a garden writer and busy mother of three who has realised that the secret of gardening without becoming overwhelmed is to do something small every day. She's packed this book with little bursts of activity - spruce, chop, nurture, fuss or tackle a larger project - that can all be managed in five-minute forays.



Spruce the lawn by raking fallen leaves in October, or fuss with your snail defences in May. Nurture your hardy annual seedlings in December, and chop your hydrangeas in March.



 Every day, rain or shine, do something for your garden with whatever time you can spare. Before you know it, you will have a daily gardening habit and a beautiful garden you can enjoy all year round.

The Five Minute Garden

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Erika Tamar

Storybooks for kids with some words in different languages 

New York

Marisol and her neighbors turn a vacant New York City lot into a lush community garden.

The Garden of Happiness

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H. Y. Hanna

Michigan

The English Cottage Garden Mysteries - Book 2

Poppy never imagined she'd move to the English countryside and fall in love with a smug, demanding, ginger-haired male. Of course, that was before she discovered that she'd inherited a cottage garden nursery and before she met a certain talkative orange cat. Now she's embracing a new life filled with rambling roses, fragrant herbs, warm summer days... and weeds (lots of weeds), as she attempts to restore the neglected cottage garden to its former glory.
When she lands her first gardening job at a beautiful country house, Poppy is delighted to earn some much-needed money. But she barely sets foot in the flower bed before the meddling neighbour drops dead in front of her--murdered by a lethal poison. Before she knows it, Poppy is busy weeding out suspects, helped by mad scientist Bertie and his feisty terrier, Einstein, plus a whole host of nosy villagers... not to mention maverick crime author Nick Forrest.
But with her clients' flowerbed mysteriously dying and red herrings at every turn, Poppy soon discovers that neither gardening nor sleuthing are as simple as she thinks...

Silent Bud Deadly

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Washington

Containing information on over 450 flowering plants, this guide is divided into 3 sections - annuals, perennials and bulbs. Individual introductions offer practical advice on how to choose, maintain and propagate a wide range of plants.

An Illustrated Guide to Garden Flowers

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Excellent story of a mom who was an avid gardener who planted a new crop when her son received a devastating cancer diagnosis.

Life, Love and Beating the Odds

Mom's Marijuana

From walls, arches, patios, paths, steps, rock gardens and fountains to seats and tables, sundials and bird baths, Step-by-Step Outdoor Stonework is the definitive guide to working with stone in your garden.

Full instructions for over 20 projects are accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and photographs. Whether building a wall or designing a rock garden, with this book in hand do-it-yourselfers at all levels of expertise will produce professional results every time.

Over twenty easy-to-build projects for your patio and garden 

Step-by-Step Outdoor Stonework

Jerry F. Baker

Make Friends with Your House Plants

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William Bryant Logan

Oversized paperback. Beautifully illustrated. 

Indiana

A Compendium of over 500 Tools for the Well-Tended Garden

A richly illustrated encyclopedia of gardening tools presents more than five hundred different utensils and tools, organized by task, including shovels, spades, trowels, hoes, weeders, hand pruners, pruning saws, axes, watering cans, wheelbarrows, rakes, and many mores. Original.

Smith and Hawken: the Tool Book

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Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Marion Owen

Cindy Buck

Carol Sturgulewski

Pat Stone

Cynthia Brian

101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter

A collection of stories filled with what every gardener knows--gardens bring richness to people's lives because they are a living reminder of all the beauty the world has to offer.

Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul

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William Alexander

Illinois

How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden

A wry gardening memoir furnishes advice from a backyard gardener on growing everything from apples to zucchini, and presents his gardening experiences and the realization that the love of gardening often drove him to use costly and time-consuming methods. Reprint.

The $64 Tomato

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George Pelecanos

Wisconsin

The haunting story of three cops--one good, one bad, one broken--and the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making.

The Night Gardener

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Hugh Book filled with 600 color photos. Authortive on Western Gardening for over 50 years. 

Nevada

No one knows more about gardening in the South than Southern Living! And no one's published a guide that covers it all so completely until now. At last, here is the book that southern gardeners have requested for years. This much anticipated volume is the first major, comprehensive garden guide that reflects the uniquely southern climates. Steve Bender, senior garden writer at Southern Living magazine, offers customized advice for all 5 southern climate zones, making it simple to understand what to plant in your zone. The plant encyclopedia, featuring over 5,000 plants, provides detailed information on plant description, climate adaptability, sun and water requirements, and cultural needs for every plant. Not only the definitive reference for the serious gardener, it is also a helpful companion for the weekend gardener and is sure to sprout up in every potting shed in the South. From Southern Living -- the authority on southern gardening -- naturally.

Western Garden Problem Solver

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Sara Nisha Adams

Virginia

A Novel

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List. In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling city for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it's overgrown and neglected, an empty patch of greenery lost to time. Once a sanctuary, the garden's gate is now firmly closed. And that's exactly how Winston at No.79 likes it - anything to avoid Bernice, who has moved in next door with her young son. Their houses may share the garden, but they're not exactly neighborly. But then a mysterious parcel drops on Winston's doormat. It contains no note, only a bundle of photographs of the garden in bloom many years ago--vibrant with flowers, filled with people from every corner of the community. Is someone trying to tell them something? The seed of an idea is planted... Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community's spirit alive. Now it's time for The Twilight Garden to come out of hibernation.

The Twilight Garden

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Pennsylvania

Secrets for Selection and Care

Landscape professionals regard trees, shrubs, and hedges as the "bones," or essential framework, of any landscape design. The trick is to select the best plants for your growing conditions - plants that also look good together. Full-color throughout, this complrehensive guide shows the reader how to do that and more, while also providing descriptions of over 1,000 of the best plants - "best" because they're beautiful, low-maintenance, pest- and disease-resistant, and available at local nurseries and home centers.

Trees, Shrubs and Hedges for Your Home

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Carol Klein

Fiona Gilsenan

Eating vegetables is good for you. Growing your own is even better. "You are what you eat" may be a timeworn adage, but it makes a valid point. When you grow your own vegetables, you'll not only eat better food, but you'll also regain your connection to the seasons and the natural rhythms of life. Growing your own will change what's on your dinner table, and it will change you. That's the philosophy behind Carol Klein's impeccably thorough guide to home vegetable gardening. In its pages, she reveals all the tricks to becoming a successful small-plot gardener, from preparing the soil, to deciding what to grow (and when to plant and harvest), to coping with pests, weeds, and other common problems. The book's second half is a veritable encyclopedia of the various vegetables-delicate salad greens, hardy root vegetables, and everything in between-that you might choose to grow.

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