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  • Gardening Hacks

    300+ Time and Money Saving Hacks

    by Jon VanZile ...
    Series series Life Hacks Series
    Make your garden flourish with these 300 easy and inexpensive gardening hacks to help your plants blossom—perfect for any green thumbs, first-time horticulturalists, or reluctant gardeners!Think you don’t have a green thumb? Think again! No matter your gardening woes, Gardening Hacks has the solution.Perfect for all gardening skill levels whether you’re starting your first garden, looking to ... Read more

    $15.98 NZD

  • The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers

    All the know-how you need to plant and tend outdoor areas using eco-friendly methods

    Series series The First-Time Gardener's Guides
    There are no stupid questions here. Everyone has to start somewhere, after all. In The First-Time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers, Sean and Allison McManus, the gardening pros behind the popular website and podcast Spoken Garden, answer all of your questions and more.Caring for outdoor plantings can be intimidating, especially if the process is completely new to you. Before running to the ... Read more

    $41.04 NZD

  • How To Grow Your Own Vegetables (Short-e Guide)

    Series series Short-e Guides
    The benefits of vegetable gardening include knowing where your vegetables from, being in control of what - if any - chemicals come into contact with them, and unbeatable flavour!  You will never want to eat a supermarket carrot again. There is also something very special about planting seeds in the ground, watching them grow to maturity, and then harvesting them for your own food. This book will ... Read more

    $2.23 NZD

  • Marijuana Grower's Handbook

    Your Complete Guide for Medical and Personal Marijuana Cultivation

    by Ed Rosenthal ...
    Ed Rosenthal's legacy handbook contains the foundational knowledge, tools, and methods to enable you to grow great marijuana—inside and out.All aspects of cultivation are covered, from the selection of varieties, setting up of the garden, through each stage of plant growth all the way to harvesting. Use efficient technology and save time, labor, and energy. Photographs throughout clarify ... Read more

    $27.59 NZD

  • Improving Your Soil

    A Practical Guide to Soil Management for the Serious Home Gardener

    by Keith Reid ...
    Valuable advice from an expert in soil science.Intended for both small and medium-size gardens, Improving Your Soil reveals the steps to take to achieve the perfect soil base in which to grow plants. With directions on amending poor soil, modifying mediocre earth, aerating compacted topsoil and substrates, and testing pH levels, this book enables gardeners to nurture their plants and promote more ... Read more

    $30.99 NZD

  • The Ultimate Food Garden

    Series series Growing Your Own Food-Bearing Plants
    The Ultimate guide to growing your own fruit, nut, herb, vegetables and other food bearing plants in your own back yard. Learn how to grow the plants, the benefits of the food the plants bear and general gardening tips to use in your own garden. From Abyssinian tea to Zucchini, to information and guidance on planting, pruning and propagation, the Ultimate Food Guide is the essential reference ... Read more

    $9.99 NZD

  • Botany for Gardeners, Fourth Edition

    An Introduction to the Science of Plants

    by Brian Capon ...
    This bestselling reference guide is essential for any experienced or buddening gardener.All questions about complex plant processes can be found in the Botany for Gardeners. First published in 1990 with more than 260,000 copies sold, it has become the go-to introduction to botany for students and gardeners. Now in its fourth edition, Botany for Gardeners has been expanded and updated. It features ... Read more

    $26.99 NZD

  • A Field Guide And Companion To Growing Your Own Tobacco

    This book provides an easy to follow step by step guide on how to grow your own tobacco.Everything from the moment you get your seeds right through to the moment that you intend to smoke your finished product is covered inside this book. ... Read more

    $3.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to Olives - Growing Olives in your Garden

    Table of ContentsIntroductionGrowing OlivesOlive PropagationPopular VarietiesTable and Mill OlivesSoil ConditionsSoil MoisturePruningHarvesting of the FruitOlives for TasteExtracting Olive OilConclusionAuthor BioPublisherIntroductionIf you have been reading the ancient holy books, you may find references to the groves of Olives and flourishing olive trees. Olives have long bee... ... Read more

    $4.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Garden Jungle

    The Sunday Times bestseller and classic guide to green gardening

    by Dave Goulson ...
    An exploration of the wondrous ecosystems in our gardens – and a call to rewild the places where we live.From window boxes to road verges, from lawns to borders, scientist and gardener Dave Goulson shows how easily any outdoor space can become a sanctuary for bees, beetles, worms and butterflies.With infectious enthusiasm, wit and scientific insight, Goulson shows how our gardens can combat ... Read more

    $18.99 NZD

  • The Complete Guide to Companion Planting: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Garden Successful

    by Dale Mayer ...
    The idea of companion planting has arisen in the gardening community in recent years as an extremely viable new take on how plants should be situated, grown, and cultivated. Whether you are planting Tomatoes and Onions or Carrots and Corn, the proper pairing of your plants can have a major impact on your eventual harvest and the quality of your vegetables. This book shows you everything you need ... Read more

    $24.25 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Zen Gardens

    by Russ Chard ...
    If you have ever wondered 'What is a Zen garden?' then this 50 page new publication for 2013 will tell you. Zen gardens are beautiful Japanese gardens steeped in history, religious meaning and a visual simplicity. There are many styles and many ingredients, Stones, Rocks, Moss, Sand, Gravel, Plants and Shrubs,Lanterns and Ornaments. Japanese Zen gardens is a book that introduces the reader to the ... Read more

    $5.99 NZD

  • eHow - Build a Square-Foot Garden Bed

    Easy DIY Guide

    Series series eHow - Easy DIY
    The Square Foot Garden method of gardening makes it a joy to tend your garden.This book provides the theory behind the Square Foot Garden and offers tips to help:Plan Your GardenBuild Planter BoxesPlant Your GardenGrow and Harvest ... Read more

    $3.78 NZD

  • Homesteading The Easy Way Including Prepping And Self Sufficency: 3 Books In 1 Boxed Set

    3 Books In 1 Boxed Set

    There is a growing community of people who are turning to homesteading. The allure of homesteading can be obvious: it allows you to stay home more, be more self-sufficient, and slow down to enjoy "the simple life." Some of the benefits may be more subtle. For example, you have a better diet and spend less money. Study homesteading in detail. Begin by reading the books in this boxed collection. ... Read more

    $8.27 NZD

  • Marijuana Growing Secrets: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Personal and Medical Marijuana Cultivation Indoors and Outdoors. Discover How to Grow Top Quality Weed and Advanced Cannabis Growing Tips

    by Calvin Newman ...
    The Ultimate Blueprint For Growing Your Own Marijuana (Even If You've Never Grown A Plant Before)Do you have a health condition like chronic pain or a mental health issue where medical cannabis would help?Or are you simply interested in growing weed for recreational purposes but don't know where to start?Either way, this is the only cannabis growing book you'll ever need.This marijuana growing ... Read more

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  • Creative Vegetable Gardening

    by Joy Larkcom ...
    Joy Larkcom believes passionately that a vegetable garden, whatever its size, can be as beautiful as a conventional garden of flowers and shrubs. In Creative Vegetable Gardening she shows how the principles of good design can be applied to a kitchen plot and how to use the vibrant textures, colours, and forms of vegetables, herbs and fruit to create glorious effects and intriguing patterns without ... Read more

    $19.99 NZD

  • Plants That Can Kill

    101 Toxic Species to Make You Think Twice

    by Stacy Tornio ...
    Following the success of Plants You Can’t Kill, Tornio now takes a look at those plants that can actually kill you if you’re not careful. This book will offer up information to gardening enthusiasts of all levels about common plants that are toxic, poisonous, and even deadly. While the level of toxicity varies from each plant, all are considered deadly in one way or another to wild animals, family ... Read more

    $21.68 NZD

  • 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily

    Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for You and your Hens

    by Lisa Steele ...
    Spoil your chickens and beautify your coop with 101 Chicken Keeping Hacks from Fresh Eggs Daily.Join Lisa Steele, chicken-keeper extraordinaire and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily, on a behind-the-coop tour like you've never seen. Lisa has spent years figuring out the best ways to keep chickens healthy, the natural way, and she's collected more than just your average tips.101 Chicken Keeping Hacks ... Read more

    $31.27 NZD

  • Landscape Design Ideas

    Professional Secrets To Pool Landscape Design, Backyard Landscape Designs, Landscape Design A Cultural And Architectural History, Landscape Design Software and Landscape Design A Practical Approach

    Get Great Ideas For landscape design ideas, pool landscape design, backyard landscape designs, landscape design a cultural and architectural history, landscape design software, and landscape design a practical approach. ... Read more

    $5.68 NZD

  • FOOD CONSPIRACY: Introducing Genetically Modified Organisms GMOs: The History, Research and the TRUTH You're Not Being Told

    by Mark Plummer ...
    New and updated 2016 2nd EditionHave you asked the question 'What are GMOs?"Where did they come from?Who creates them?How will they affect myself and my family?Are they dangerous?If so, what can I do about it?What you'll find out by reading this bookAn objective overview of what is meant by plant genetic engineering (GMO) and an insight as to where th... ... Read more

    $4.16 NZD

  • How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables & Houseplants Without Soil: The Secrets of Hydroponic Gardening Revealed

    Dirt-free, low-cost, space-saving, low in pesticides, and environmentally friendly, hydroponic gardening the art of growing plants without any soil is a method already used by millions for growing healthy, vibrant plants by everyday gardeners. In Greek, hydro translates to water and ponos translates as labor, meaning that your garden lets the water do the work of feeding nutrients to your plant no ... Read more

    $24.25 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dahlias

    Beautiful varieties for home and garden

    by Naomi Slade ...
    For years dahlias have been dismissed for being garish, gaudy additions to gardens and arrangements, but when you find the right variety it's hard to think of a better garden plant or more striking cut flower.The next title in Pavilion's series of stylish floral gardening guides celebrates the diversity and return to fashion of the dahlia.This title explores the history of the dahlia from its ... Read more

    $13.99 NZD

  • The Dry Garden

    The definitive gardening book for minimum watering

    by Beth Chatto ...
    'I return to Beth Chatto's books constantly. For those who are new to her work, you are entering into a life-long relationship with a wise friend and gardener' Monty Don**'**Invaluable to those who want to plant a trouble-free, all-year-round garden with minimum care - or watering' FLORAIn today's climate of increasingly hot summers and dry winters, gardeners need guidance on plants that will ... Read more

    $16.99 NZD

  • The Suburban Micro-Farm

    by Amy Stross ...
    Winner of the GOLD Nonfiction Book Award!Reduce your lawn and your grocery budget. Take gardening to the next level!Would you like to grow healthy food for your table? Do you want to learn the secrets of farming even though you live in a neighborhood? Author Amy Stross talks straight about why the suburbs might be the ideal place for a small farm.In these pages you'll learn:How to make your ... Read more

    $7.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus