This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook for creating, managing, and maintaining golf courses and polo fields. Accessible and full of useful information, this timeless guide will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in maintaining high quality lawns for sport or leisure. Highly recommended for golf club owners and collectors of vintage sporting literature. Contents include: "Lawns", "Re-Making an Old Lawn", "Making a New Lawn", "Clipping, Rolling and Watering", ...

A detailed and comprehensive guide for growing and using gourmet and medicinal mushrooms commercially or at home.“Absolutely the best book in the world on how to grow diverse and delicious mushrooms.”—David Arora, author of Mushrooms DemystifiedWith precise growth parameters for thirty-one mushroom species, this bible of mushroom cultivation includes gardening tips, state-of-the-art production techniques, realistic advice for labor...

Creating and maintaining the perfect yard in the chinook zone isn’t as hard as you might think, but the short growing season doesn’t give you much time to transform your winter-weary yard into a glorious garden. To help Calgary-area homeowners get the jump on the short season, popular gardening expert Lyndon Penner has created the essential guide to a quick and beautiful yard in the chinook zone.With gardening smarts, style and wit, Lyndon covers everything both novice and expert g...

A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner.Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers re...

Learn how to grow lovely and fragrant flowers then use them create delicious meals with this beautifully illustrated flower gardening and cooking book.Anyone who picks up The Edible Flower Garden will be tempted to grow, harvest, and sample at least a few of the more than forty varieties of edible flowers. Among them, you'll find more familiar food plants—dill and mustard, for example—in addition to common flowers, such as tulips or roses. Author Rosalind ...

This complete handbook is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to buy or install a small-scale irrigation system for the lawn, garden, or backyard. Covers everything from sprinklers and soaker hoses to overhead irrigation and gravity distribution systems.

Have you ever seen your neighbor’s garden and wondered how in the world do they do it? Do you look at magazines and see all these gardening ideas and wish to put them into motion? That is the situation in which I was in. I wanted to garden so badly, to grow something with my own hands, and to see my hard work pay off. The good news is that I did succeed with my garden and found that there were several hacks in which I used that allowed me to do this.That is why I have created this ...

With Edible Herb Garden, you can reap the joys and benefits of growing herbs at home!Edible Herb Garden is an all-inclusive guide to herb gardening, with several delicious herb recipes included. It features information on growing an incredible selection of fragrant and savory herbs. Then, it provides recipes to prepare your bounty in meals as well as herb blends, herbed oils and vinegars and even herb-flavored vodka!This information-rich b...

Horticultural expert Vincent Simeone helps you plan your green garden in this practical, holistic guide. With detailed, strategic timelines for both short-term and long-term gardening techniques, Grow More with Less lets you put your best foot forward in creating an efficient, sustainable home landscape. From composting and mulching to planting trees, author Vincent Simeone covers all the eco-friendly essentials in one straightforward handbook. Simeone makes the what, how, and why of susta...

Your lawn is a representative of you and your home. It shows your neighbors and visitors how much time and effort you are willing to put into keeping your home looking good. Organic lawn care is becoming more prevalent for many home owners, but knowing which ecological products to buy can be tricky.

This guide will appeal to the lawn lover and groundsman alike. It is illustrated with black and white photographs. Contents Include: Introduction; Turf Grasses; Preparation of the Soil before Seeding or Sodding; Sowing down a Lawn; Preparing a Lawn from Sods; The Maintenance of Lawns; Turf for Bowls, Golf and other Sports; Developments in Tools and Machines. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and...

“The Story of the Garden” provides a detailed history of the garden, exploring its origins and development throughout the ages. Contents include: “The Traditional Influence of Ancient Garden Lore”, “The Mediaeval Garden”, “The Tudor Age”, “Stuart Times”, “French and Dutch Influences”, “The Georgian Period”, “The Landscape School and the Victorian and Edwardian Eras”, “American Gardens”, “List of Plants from 'The Feate of Gardening, by Mayster Ion Gardener”, etc. Many vintage books such as ...