Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

The New York Times-bestselling guide to botany and booze celebrates its 10th anniversary with an updated edition— now including a guide to planting your very own cocktail garden to go with more than fifty drink recipes. This fascinating, go-to text about the plants that make our drinks is the ideal gift book for every cocktail aficionado, the perfect drinks book for every plant-lover.Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barl...

Have you ever looked enviously at a neighbour’s garden and wished you had a green thumb? Have you ever gone to the garden centre full of enthusiasm, only to find yourself confused and defeated? Have you ever wished that somehow gardening could just be, well, easy? If so, it’s time to Get Growing with Frankie Flowers. In 352 pages packed with inspiring yet instructional photos, Frankie coaches gardeners of all levels through the basics of getting a garden growing. Broken down into ...

Bestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful garden for any space — all on a budgetThe highly anticipated sequel to her popular book Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style, Thrifty Gardening marries Harris...

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 is described in The Complete Guide to Companion Planting.

Vertical gardening is a viable gardening alternative for gardeners with small plots of land because plants grown vertically off the ground, thereby conserving space. This well-organized booklet is a mini course; walking readers through the essential elements of vertical gardening so that a novice gardener can quickly get up to speed and tend to his or her vertical garden like a pro. In each of this booklet's chapters, Greene starts off with a general concept and then provides a detailed br...

On Guerrilla Gardening is an activist's call to arms to all citizens - green-fingered, green-thinking or curious - to join the revolution of guerrilla gardening: transforming public space into oases of colour and life. The enemy: neglect, apathy and the disintegration of community spirit. The arsenal: daring, a packet of seeds and a passionate commitment to social change.When Richard Reynolds first embarked on guerrilla gardening, growing flowers by moonlight outside his t...

One of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was known to many as ‘The Omnipotent Magician’ who could transform unpromising countryside into beautiful parks that seemed to be only the work of nature.His list of clients included half the House of Lords, six Prime Ministers and even royalty. Although his fame has dimmed, we still enjoy many of his works today at National Trust properties such as Croome Park, Petworth, Berrington, Stowe, Wimpole, Ble...

IMPORTANT: This book contains a lot of wonderful gardening pictures and might not be counted in the print length. There are approximately 70 pages.If you want to learn the basics of gardening than this book will help. Self fulfillment and delicious tasting vegetables can be achieved by growing a successful garden. For those of you who have never grown vegetables before or have only had limited experience, this book will explain the basics. You too can become a successful gardener.

Are you too busy to clear the clutter in your home? Do you start decluttering but then find that your busy life gets in way of completing the task? Do you wish you had an experienced organizer to help you declutter? If so, then there are no more excuses. It’s time to purge clutter and make room for your best possible life.Let’s skip the clutter theory and get straight to work. A Year of Decluttering Motivation provides practical, actionable tips, checklists and decluttering calenda...

Japanese Gardens - Revealed and Explained is comprehensive and thorough in its coverage of the subject of Japanese gardens and provides the reader with a journey through their history, meaning and eye catching beauty. All aspects of Japanese gardens and gardening are covered from design to ingredients and it even covers subjects like pruning techniques as well as numerous suggestions of what to plant in a Japanese garden courtesy of Master gardener L.H. Bailey. Discover Zen gardens (someti...

Do You Have Dirty Thumbs?If not, you really should. The true mark of a very successful gardener isn't "green thumb" it's brown ones!If you are sick and tired of feeding your family over-processed fruits and veggies you need to think very seriously about what they are eating.Summer fruits and veggies in mid-winter sounds just great. But, what is the price for all of that convenience?Chemically treated food that will last in cold storage....