Gardening

"As families spend more time at home, they're expanding their living space to their yards, decks, and patios. When you're ready to upgrade the look of your landscape, Landscaping For Dummies offers advice on installing fences and walkways, choosing hardy plants and trees, and enhancing natural habitats for the critters and creatures lurking in your neighborhood. You'll find out how to make your backyard a relaxing retreat space and discover the enjoyment...

"This is a compendium of practical advice for the home gardener, arranged by month. The individual bits of advice for each month are arranged as follows: general advice; advice for the vegetable garden (including herbs); and advice for ornamental plants (further subdivided into the outdoor garden, terrace and balcony, and windowsill and houseplants). There is also a massive section of charts at the back of the book. The advice is applicable to U.S....

"A Field Guide to Succulents introduces you to over 200 popular succulent and cacti species including many you've never seen before! Each chapter serves as an illustrated field guide that covers the characteristics and needs of a particular succulent family, then zooms in to show you their attributes in detail and from angles that let you truly see what makes these varieties different from one another"--Publisher's description.

The bestselling classic guide to living a more sustainable way of life from one of the fathers of the self-sufficiency movement. For more than 50 years, John Seymour has inspired thousand to make more responsible, eco-friendly life choices. The Self-Sufficient life and How to Live It is his manifesto for living "the good life", covering all you need to know to go off-grid: how to grow your own produce, raise livestock, forage, brew beer, make cheese,...

Growing an Edible Landscape is filled with advice and tips for converting unproductive lawn and garden areas into food-growing regions where edible plants thrive.

Discover how to get more out of your growing space with succession planting --- carefully planned, continuous seed sowing --- and provide a steady stream of fresh food from early spring through late fall.

Argues for ditching the grass lawn for santuaries of native plants with a long list of benefits: lower water bills, no poisonous pesticides, increased biodiversity, and self-sustaining flora. Provides guides to transform lawns with landscaping basics, native plant regional maps, and illustrated blueprints to shape your property with suggestions from trees and shrubs to flowers and ground cover. Includes a history of the forces and people who shaped...