Microgreens—the young seedlings of herbs, vegetables, beans, seeds, and grains—contain four to six times the vitamins and phyto-chemicals found in mature leaves of the same plants. These great tasting nutritional powerhouses are cropping up in gourmet restaurants and trendy farmers markets everywhere. This comprehensive resource explains everything readers need to know to grow microgreens at home, inexpensively and easily. It provides extensive instructions for selecting seeds and soil, al...

This is a comprehensive handbook for the total novice and the practiced gardener alike, covering all aspects of the subject to ensure you can reap the rewards with your home-grown fruit, vegetables and herbs.Offering invaluable information on soils, fertilizers, tools and pest control, this book also includes a month-by-month calendar to enable gardeners to keep on top of their essential tasks. This all-absorbing hobby offers fantastic benefits, both nutritionally and financially, ...

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.If you’ve ever had a swarm of fruit flies in your kitchen or a gopher wreaking havoc in your yard, you may have wondered what a conscientious gardener or homeowner can do short of heavy-duty chemical warfare. Dead Snails Leave No Trails is a comprehensive guide to repell...

Cookbooks need not—indeed, should not—involve cooking, say the authors of this authoritative, beautifully illustrated book. And they should know. Sergei and Vayla Boutenko bring fifteen years’ experience to this collection of scrumptious, sophisticated recipes and comprehensive guide to the raw life.Fresh covers the whole range of recipes, including savory dishes, desserts, fermented foods, drinks, and wild foods. Techniques common to the recipes are introduced and clearly...

Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward--a test of gardening skill.In Great Grapes, you'll learn all you need to know to...

"The little classic that introduced thousands to composting." – The Boston GlobeTransform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener's gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You'll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests."The composter's bible . . . Let It...

Whether broadcast across a prepared seedbed or tucked into a container of growing medium, seeds hold the promise of something much bigger--juicy tomatoes, lush foliage, and brilliant blossoms. And growing plants from seed is easy and inexpensive (as well as rewarding) for the gardener ready to try new or regional varieties. Seed Starts & Smarts features sowing and growing advice for more than 70 edible garden crops--including vegetables, herbs, and fruits--along with tips and tech...

Superfoods Diet: The Superfoods Book for Healthy Living & Powerful Superfoods Recipes Gloria Weldon Whether you've been interested in health and nutrition for years or you've just heard about super foods for the first time, the benefits of a superfood diet are undeniable. These foods provide the essential nutrients that the human body needs, help promote fast weight loss and better health. Despite the trend towards marketing exotic, hard to find (and as often as not, quite expensive) foods...

“Growing Food in the High Desert County” is a comprehensive gardening book with emphasis on growing vegetables. The author seeks to help the high desert dweller cope with the problems of raising plants in a dry land. From practical experience, she learned that her familiar East coast gardening techniques were not suitable to the high country so she developed the special methods given in this book. In addition to vegetables, Ms. Weinberg discusses various aspects of fruit tree culture in th...

This book covers several topics including: - Preparing To Grow - Lighting - Building a Grow Room - Growing Step by Step - Harvesting Step by Step and much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.

Pruning is the number one anxiety of aspiring gardeners who want to train and stimulate their plants but fear they might kill them. Pruning now joins the hugely successful Collins Practical Gardener series to give you the best tips and techniques for pruning your entire garden, from roses and fruit trees to hedges and topiary plants.Pruning retains a plant's shape, improves flowering and fruiting, and keeps foliage and stems healthy. This books guides you through the vast range of ...

Community-based initiatives to preserve and protect our food supplyHistorically, seed companies were generally small, often family-run businesses. Because they were regionally based, they could focus on varieties well-suited to the local environment. A Pacific Northwest company, for example, would specialize in different cultivars than a company based in the Southeast. However the absorption of these small, independent seed businesses into large multinationals, com...