Plants Gardening

Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style between two brothers and the various seeds they encounter. These seeds offer grammatical advice, chastises poor reasoning, provide enlightening information, and will often encourage the boys to go and discover answers to their questions themselves.

Are you looking to improve your health through the power of medicinal plants? Have you always wanted to grow your own herbs at home? Did you know 80 percent of the population relies on traditional herbal medicine for primary health care? Since ancient times, people have used herbal plants to treat diseases and enhance their general health and well-being.

Join the thousands and thousands of people who have discovered the rewarding hobby of foraging. Edible greens, fruits, mushrooms and nuts are there for the taking, and with a little research, you can learn how to tell the difference between edible plants and herbs and the ones you have to avoid! Foraging is a great survival skill and if you want to nurture it you need to start practicing right now. Once you can forage wild edible plants, you make surviving in the wild possible not only for yourself but for your loved ones as well.

Hydroponics is a great way to cultivate some of your favorite plants without having to rely on soils, using dissolved minerals in water instead and can be a great way to grow healthy plants. In this audiobook, you're going to be equipped with the skills you need to set up your own hydroponic system and grow your own healthy plants.

The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age of discovery to modern-day botanists working at the cutting-edge of science. The text explores how plant hunters have been inspired by everything from scientific curiosity to economic greed, and their own ingrained sense of adventure.

Learn everything you need to grow a successful companion garden, no prior gardening experience required! Imagine the convenience of stepping into your backyard to harvest fresh produce, all for free! Your neighbors will marvel at your flourishing garden, free from pests and diseases. Your secret? Two words: companion planting. Even without a backyard, you can enjoy vibrant gardening on your porch or windowsill. This guide is perfect for anyone interested in companion gardening, space maximization, and homegrown food or decor.

Have you ever dreamed of a garden that feels like a secret hideaway, where every plant whispers ancient secrets and every herb holds mystical powers? Imagine a place where you can manifest your desires and enhance your everyday life through the power of nature. Join author Kara Lawrence on a journey into the world of magical gardening, where you'll learn how to create your own enchanted oasis and harness the extraordinary properties of plants and herbs.

Grow that green thumb and be a part of an innovative way of gardening. Companion planting is an organic way of gardening that uses nature rather than chemicals to boost growth, deter harmful insects, and attract beneficial insects.

Discover the joys of companion planting and transform your backyard garden into a thriving oasis with The Companion Planting Gardening Book: How Perfect Plant Partners Can Transform Your Backyard Garden. This comprehensive guide takes you through the benefits and principles of this sustainable gardening practice, providing practical tips and examples along the way.

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.

Like most comprehensive books we'll start with the basics and go from there. I've tried to make this information make sense even if you've no previous science or agricultural knowledge. Even if you've never so much as had a goldfish you can still master aquaponics.

When Summer Rayne Oakes moved to Brooklyn from the Pennsylvania countryside, she knew that bringing nature indoors was her only chance to stay sane. She found them by the side of the road, in long-forgotten window boxes, at farmers' markets, and in local garden shops. She found ways to shelve, hang, tuck, anchor, secure, and suspend them. She even installed 150-foot expandable hose that connects to pipes under her kitchen sink, so she only has to spend about a half-hour a day tending to her plants - an activity that she describes as a "moving meditation". T

There’s nothing like the joy of being self-sufficient—knowing that all you need to survive are a few seeds, water, and your hands in the dirt. You might already be totally convinced of the benefits of gardening but worry that your small urban home won’t be big enough to grow a thriving garden. This book is here to show you that there is no urban home that is too small to grow a garden that will bring you endless joy and satisfaction in your life.

Discover how to cultivate a thriving garden - even if you have no space or experience. Convinced you've got two brown thumbs? Absolutely certain that gardening is a skill you're either born with or you’re not? Think again. Gardening usually conjures up images of sprawling backyards and hours of weeding, tending and harvesting - a hobby that's only available to those who have the time and space to spare. In today's world, that couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact, it’s easier and more accessible to get started with gardening than it’s ever been before.

In the midst of ongoing news about Southwestern water scarcity, Martha Retallick sees an opportunity. For 20 years, she has been transforming her central Tucson home into an urban oasis. The secret to her success: Water harvesting. Since Retallick purchased her central Tucson home in 2004, she has incorporated two types of water harvesting – passive and active – into her landscape. Passive water harvesting is simply the act of sculpting the landscape to direct the water to where it should be – like plants – and away from where it shouldn’t be – like a home’s foundation.

Enhance your home and yard with beautiful perennial plants and flowers that come back year after year! Whether you want to have beautiful plants that are easy to maintain, grow delicious vegetables and beautiful flowers, or create your own plant paradise inside and outside of your home, this audiobook will guide you through everything you need to know.

Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries - on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators - this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification, and more.

The Beginner’s Guide to Plant Propagation is your go-to audiobook for mastering the art of growing new plants with ease. Whether you’re a beginner or refining your skills, this step-by-step guide provides expert tips and sustainable techniques to help you succeed.

Companion gardening is just planting certain plants together because they will help each other grow and become healthier. It is said that companion gardening is even better than using fertilizers or artificial ways of letting plants grow because the plants can benefit from each other and it's all a natural process.

With a new introduction exclusively in audio, read by Anna Pavord. The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their parts in the development of the tulip into the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts and plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.