Gardening Techniques

Tired of weeding, labor, and battling pests? Dreaming of a low-maintenance, abundant garden? Discover easy permaculture strategies to simplify gardening for beginners and busy individuals.

This book will show you that successful organic gardening isn't about having a green thumb or a huge yard. It's about understanding nature and taking the right steps to plan and prepare. With simple techniques and thoughtful advice, you can create a flourishing garden, no matter your space or experience.

This book gives you ways to beat insect infestations on your houseplants and tips on preparing plants for winter. Learn how to raise orchids and African violets, how to grow a Christmas cactus the way your grandma did, and how to make poinsettias rebloom. You can learn how to make a dish garden and terrarium. You'll learn the right way to water your houseplants. When insects afflict your houseplants, consult this book.

Do you want to start a garden, but you are overwhelmed and are not sure where to even begin? Are you looking for an easy way to grow your own food at home that doesn't require hours upon hours of upkeep? Do you dream of eating fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, and other veggies grown with your own hands, but you worry that you do not have enough space for a garden? If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, you have come to the right place.

Have you always wanted to try your hand at gardening, but somehow could never find the time? Worried that you just don’t have the right spot? Your worries are over. The raised garden bed revolution has already begun, and now could be the perfect time to join in! With its elevated height and easily reachable interior, the raised bed makes it possible for anyone to garden. Raised Bed Gardening covers everything you need to know to get started.

Gardening is easy: Discover how you can grow a perfect vegetable garden, and enjoy fresh, organic food every day. You don’t have a green thumb. You’ve never managed to keep a houseplant alive for more than two weeks. You don’t have enough gardening space. Don’t stress about your lack of experience or previous gardening fails. Everyone has to start somewhere, and now you have the perfect opportunity to do.

This down-to-earth, lively, and informative audiobook is just what the home composter needs. Its short essays feel conversational and friendly. Figure out how to set up composting in your backyard. Learn about the ins and outs of composting - what goes into the compost and what stays out. Determine what to do about critters in the compost. Discover some creative ways to use your compost. Feel good that you can join the green planet movement by not moving any farther than your own backyard.

Traditional gardening can be hard. It requires a lot of space, and problems like drought, weeds, and rotting often result in very bad yields. But what if there is a better strategy, one that eliminates many of the challenges that traditional planting brings to the table? Meet raised bed gardening - gardening that uses less space, is controlled, and is easily accessible.

Build your own hydroponics growing system and eat organic vegetables! Do you want to grow your own organic vegetables and make the most of your space? Learn the fundamentals of hydroponics with techniques and methods to start your successful grow. Simple techniques to hydroponic growing! Whether you just want to learn more about how to grow with hydroponics or already understand it and want extra help becoming an hydroponics growing superstar, this book is for you.

This audiobook contains information on the what and why of growing your foods without soil! Hydroponics has been used in commercial farming for decades, but many home gardeners still rely on the whims of soil for their plants. Not only is this outdated, it can also be extremely expensive! Why waste your money on soil when there's a much better choice? Hydroponics is better for your plants and will help you grow more; it even works in small spaces and indoors.

Whether your garden is big or small or you are a complete beginner, building raised beds can help you achieve the perfect garden. It offers many benefits over traditional gardening, including—improving the drainage, being able to manage the quality of the soil, extending your growing season, along with many more. And you don’t need to be an expert to build and manage raised beds.

In this audiobook, we are going to look at how soil is created, its constituents–of which surprisingly many are very much alive–how soil affects plants, and which plants grow best where. We’ll also learn how to create your own compost, deal with soil deficiencies, and how to find out which soil type you have in your garden.

It has never been simpler to grow psilocybin mushrooms at home for increased productivity, the pursuit of a spiritual awakening, or medicine! Have you always been intrigued by the idea of raising your own psilocybin mushrooms but are unsure where to begin? Are you intrigued by the possibility of natural medicine to address the underlying causes of issues rather than merely treating their symptoms? What can we learn from the psilocybin mushroom-eating cultures of the past who saw it as a divine food?

Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."

The Gardens that Mended a Marriage offers the promise of paradise. It tells the story of how the writer and her husband, an architect, built a contemporary Moorish house on the top of a mountain and created a Persian garden, following the recipe laid down in the Koran for a paradise on earth.

Produce Your Own Food 2-in-1 Collection is the ultimate beginner’s guide to raising backyard chickens and growing fresh food—even if you’ve never done either before! This practical, down-to-earth audiobook combines two complete how-to guides into one empowering resource.

Would your garden, small or large, in town or country, win a prize? Is there room for improvement? Everybody has favourite plants, but the ability to put them all together to ensure a splendid show throughout the year is a skill that must be acquired. The Well-Chosen Garden will guide you to making the most of your available space, help you avoid untimely gaps, colour clashes and many other pitfalls of garden planning.

Die Geschichte der Cityfarm Augsburg beginnt 2011 mit einer Idee. Benjamin Vogt und seine Frau Ildikó träumen von einem Rückzugsort mitten in der Stadt, einem Leben abseits von Mainstream und Kommerz und davon, als Selbstversorger im Einklang mit der Natur zu leben. Doch bis zum offiziellen Gründungstag der Cityfarm 2012 und auch danach sind die beiden vor viele Herausforderungen gestellt. Wie macht man ein ungeschütztes Grundstück einbruchsicher? Wie fängt man einen Bienenschwarm ein? Welche Tiere eignen sich für die Haltung in der Stadt?

In the heart of the concrete jungle, a new kind of garden is blossoming. "The Urban Herb" is your guide to transforming your urban space into a thriving herbal haven. Whether you have a small balcony, a rooftop, or just a windowsill, this book shows you how to make the most of what you have.

It doesn't matter if you have zero green thumbs or live in the middle of a big city. With How to Grow Your Own Food, you will have all the info you need to start gardening at home. How to Grow Your Own Food is the perfect book for anyone new to gardening or who has tried and failed in the past. It takes you from beginner steps through mastering advanced techniques. This book will guide you through your entire journey, from setting up your garden to tending and harvesting.