In backyards all across Washington and Oregon, vegetable gardens are sprouting up as people seek a return to their roots with healthy and economical diets. To help gardeners in the Pacific Northwest take advantage of the hottest trend in gardening today, Lone Pine has a new vegetable guide by best-selling author Marianne Binetti. Unlock a fresh world of flavor, nutrition and savings.
The book shows you how to agument, with little effort, your landscape with edibles in an environmentally sustainable manner. It helps with starting, maintaining and harvesting an edible garden, propagation and winter care, and solutions to common garden problems. Learn to grow your veggie favorites, berris, the superhealthy (flax, broccoli), the oddly beautiful (brussel sprouts, asparagus) and the ancient and exotic (quinoa, kiwi).
Herbs add fragrance, beauty and practicality to your garden -- and it's easy to grow a wide variety of them just about anywhere here in Washington and Oregon. This book, coauthored by veteran Washington garden writer Marianne Binetti and Laura Peters, offers handy tips and advice on: growing, maintaining and harvesting 363 of the best herbs for local gardens; propagation and winter care; and solutions to common garden problems. This practical book will help you participate in the age-old tradition of using herbs to flavor foods, add seductive scents to potpourris and perfumes, and impart healthful, healing qualities to lotions and lip balms: * Exotic herbs such as kaffir lime, lemongrass, jasmine, fenugreek and stevia can be grown easily here. * Edible flowers such as nasturtiums and calendula can add flavor and interest to salads, teas, honeys and butters. * Fragrant herbs such as basil, rosemary and sage can be used in infusions, herbal baths and soaps.
Lone Pine’s team of garden writers have pooled their decades of gardening experience to create this fun and handy collection of tips to make your time in the garden more successful and enjoyable.The book is organized by subjects and also by seasons. You’ll find information on getting your garden ready each spring, how to maintain and strengthen nutrients in the soil, how to deal with pets and pests, planning and design tips for your garden, what to look for when you’re choosing plants or, for that matter, when choosing a garden centre, how to select tools and a host of labour-saving ideas usually learned the hard way through personal experience.If you’re a newcomer to gardening, this book is worth every penny in what you’ll save in materials, time and satisfaction. And even if your green thumb was earned a while back, you’ll still find plenty of useful ideas.
A great new gardening book for Ontario! This handy guide is packed with the best plant varieties you'll want for your garden: annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, vines, climbers, roses, bulbs and herbs. Small enough to take to the garden centre or nursery yet filled with beautiful photos, it contains all the gardening information you need to decide which varieties to select and how to care for them. - habitat, height and spread - information on soil, light and water - tips on how to best use the plant in your garden - recommended species for the Ontario garden
Gardening is one of the fastest growing recreational pastimes in North America. Today's gardener is looking for the right resources to yield beautiful results with a minimum amount of fuss. Our Gardening Month by Month series, crafted by local gardening experts, answers the challenge with images and information specific to the region to which each title is dedicated. Each month of the year is featured, opening with a beautiful two-page photo spread and followed by a perpetual calendar, tips and information and plenty of space for your own gardening notes. This easy-to-use, sturdy book with lay-flat binding contains great features on garden design, sprouting plants from seeds, container gardening, creating wildlife habitat, composting, house plants and pest control with many references and resources for the modern gardener, whether your garden is in Abbotsford or Antigonish.