Enjoy your favorite varieties of garden plants year after year with this comprehensive guide to gathering, preparing, and planting seeds.In The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds, authors Robert Gough and Cheryl Moore-Gough provide simple instructions that clearly explain the whole process, from basic plant biology to proper seed storage and successful propagation.Gardeners of any experience level will find all the information they need to preserve gen...

Why plant a vegetable garden with the same old tomato and cucumber plants that everyone else has? Small Fruits in the Home Garden is your home gardener?s guide to growing and harvesting small fruit for personal enjoyment. The contributors to this book provide the necessary information and helpful hints for you to grow many new varieties of small fruits, that have wonderful flavor but may not be suitable for commercial production, right at home. Now you can harvest the tastiest varieties at...

Seed Quality: Basic Mechanisms and Agricultural Implications focuses on various aspects of seed quality and integrates research at basic and applied levels, supporting high-quality seeds as the basis of higher agricultural productivity. With its clear perspective and interdisciplinary focus on basic and applied aspects of seed quality, this book is immensely useful to students and teachers in many agricultural and botanical disciplines.Because seed quality is a critical component in the ec...

An A-to-Z look at the world of small fruitsWhile there are many books on small fruit culture, their focus is often very specific or confined to just a few species. Packed with useful information, An Encyclopedia of Small Fruit is the comprehensive A-to-Z reference that not only details all temperate and tropical small fruit grown throu

Here is a book that sets forth vital information growers need to produce highbush blueberries effectively and efficiently. Written from the grower?s point of view, The Highbush Blueberry and Its Management presents technical information in a highly readable manner that is easy to understand. It helps growers make proper decisions before they plant-

Grow blueberries in your own backyard and enjoy fresh fruit every summer!Highbush blueberries are easy to grow in many regions, require little maintenance, and can provide you with fresh fruit for eight to ten weeks during the summer. This 32-page guide will teach you everything you need to know about planting and growing a crop of your own.Readers will learn:What environmental conditions are best for growing blueberriesHow to plant ...

Cook with confidence every day! Dig into 600 essential recipes to feed you 365 days a year—alongside tons of foundational resources—from the James Beard Award winning team at Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street.This is everyday cooking you actually want to cook every day: Milk Street’s new and comprehensive guide to the modern recipe repertoire, full of fresh flavors and simple yet game-changing techniques.Milk Street 365 is both inspiration and refe...

One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years—most of our planet’s history...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Add some razzle dazzle to your home cooking with 80 recipes for your favorite Asian takeout dishes from culinary influencer Cassie YeungCassie Yeung likes to think of herself as a chef for the people—no professional culinary training here, just a girl who really loves to cook (and eat, obvi). She believes that the #1 rule in the kitchen is to have fun, let loose, and cook the way you want to. For Cassie, that means yelling “behi...

A guide to understand and befriend your unique nervous system—and find your way back to safety and calm in times of stressWe live in stressful times. When we’re anxious and overwhelmed, our nervous systems—and our lives—suffer. We can’t eliminate all of life’s difficulties, but The Nervous System Workbook can teach you how to find more well-being amidst it all, starting inside your own body.Deb Dana, a leading expert in Polyvagal Theory, shares inc...

"Recipes feature easy-to-find ingredients, are accompanied by gorgeous photographs, and include options that will appeal to any palette" ( Publishers Weekly).Farmhouse Weekends is the cookbook for anyone who daydreams of country life. Prepare meals and experiences to enjoy in the easy companionship of family and friends—everything you need to create the perfect farmhouse weekend, no matter where you live, is found within these pages. Each chapter p...

**Turn your kitchen into the world's best bakery with this collection of 200 sweet and savory baking recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street."Comprehensive [and] extraordinarily useful." —Booklist, starred review**The American baking repertoire may be unparalleled in our claim to pies, biscuits, and cakes. But step off a plane in London, Mexico City, Istanbul, or Paris, and you realize how much more there we can learn about the art of simple,...