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Mulch, Intensive & Lazy Gardening
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The laziest gardening of all -
letting Mother Nature do the work. I'm so impressed with this book that I've
listed it under 3 categories to be sure you don't miss it.
Gaia's Garden - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture - Toby Hemenway
- 2001
Back Cover:
Welcome to Paradise!
Imagine a garden filled with edible flowers, bursting with fruit
and berries, carpeted with scented herbs and tangy salad greens, all blended
in an eye-catching palette of color and texture. The flowers also nurture
endangered pollinators. Bright-feathered birds share the abundant berries
and gather twigs for their nearby nests. Each plant plays a role in building
soil, deterring pests, storing nutrients, and luring beneficial insects.
This is not a dream. This is your own backyard.
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture describes a
gardening system that combines the best features of wildlife habitat, edible
landscapes, and conventional flower and vegetable gardens into a
self-renewing landscape that lets nature do most of the work. Rather than
mastering your garden with gas-spewing rototillers and chemical fertilizers,
let Toby Hemenway show you how to create a backyard ecosystem that balances
the needs of humans and nature.
"Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture outlines a
revolutionary course for the future of gardening and agriculture. It is
organized around the premise that it is possible to substitute information
and human stewardship for hardware, capital, chemicals, and machines in
the growing of foods and the crafting of landscapes." –
John Todd, founder of the New Alchemy
Institute, from the Foreword.
more info: USA:
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale...
Europe: Gaia's
Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale... |
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Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy
and the Indolent - Ruth Stout - 1998
more info: USA:
Gardening Without Work : For the Aging,...
Europe:
Gardening Without Work : For the Aging,...
Other
Ruth Stout Books:
- Don't Forget to Smile or How to Stay Sane and fit over Ninety - 2002
(Not Yet Published)
- The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book (used only)
- How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of
Mulch Gardening (used only)
- I've Always Done It My Way (used only)
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Ruth Stout's Garden (23 min. VHS Video)
Ruth was 92
years old when it was made. She is delightful.
Buy at
gardenworks or
Plants of the Southwest
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How to Grow More Vegetables:
Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops* - John Jeavons - 2002
Back Cover:
*Than You Every Thought Possible On
Less Land Than You Can Imagine
Now published in 7 different languages and used in 108
countries - this is the book that has helped revolutionize food production
around the globe. Based on Biointensive gardening techniques developed by
horticulturalist Alan Chadwick, How to Grow More Vegetables details the
farming method which can result in 800 square feet or less providing a
family of four with fresh vegetables - produced organically while
maintaining soil nutrients for future crops, with a minimum of water and
daily care needed - for an entire year. This revision contains completely
updated and expanded material throughout, as well as new chapters on soil
sustainability and a perspective into the future of farming.
more info: USA:
How
to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits,...
Europe:
How to Grow More Vegetables : And... |
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Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for
Bountiful Gardens" No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! -
Patricia Lanza, Elayne Sears - 1999 Back Cover:
Lasagna gardening is a unique and
environmentally friendly method that employs layering mulch materials such
as old newspapers, fallen leaves, and grass clippings to provide a
nutrient-dense base for healthy gardens. It is a time-saving technique that
works. Gardener extraordinaire Lanza offers her tips and specific lasagna
gardening procedures for the most popular vegetables, flowers, herbs,
fruits, and more-all without digging and tilling! Lasagna Gardening will
increase the gardener's bounty and leisure time and decrease environmental
waste
more info: USA:
Lasagna Gardening : A New Layering...
Europe:
Lasagna Gardening : A New Layering... |
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Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces: A Layering System for Big Results in
Small Gardens and Containers: Garden in Inches, Not Acres - Patricia
Lanza - 2002 more info: USA:
Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces : A...
Europe:
Lasagna Gardening for Small Spaces : A... |
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The Postage Stamp Garden Book - Duane G. Newcomb, Karen Newcomb -
1999 Back Cover:
A postage stamp garden is a small
area that can produce a bounty of herbs and vegetables. Many gardeners
complain that they are short on both time and garden space. The Postage
Stamp Garden Book solves both of these problems. The instructions in
this book clearly demonstrate how anyone can produce tremendous amounts of
vegetables in small spaces (using containers as well as ground gardens) by
following intensive, ecologically friendly techniques that require much less
weeding, watering, and overall effort.
more info: USA: The Postage Stamp Garden Book : Grow...
Europe: The
Postage Stamp Garden Book : Grow... |
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Square Foot Gardening - Mel Bartholomew - 1981
more info: USA: Square Foot Gardening
Europe: Square
Foot Gardening
A Classic. |
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The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard
Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields - John Jeavons, Carol Cox - 1999
more info: USA:
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden : A...
Europe:
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden |
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Weedless Gardening - Lee Reich, Michael A. Hill - 2001
more info: USA:
Weedless Gardening
Europe:
Weedless Gardening |
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White Trash Gardening - Rufus T. Firefly, Mike Benton - 1996
(out-of-print available used only)
Hilarious and fun with good organic advice- No job should take
longer than a six pack. How to use pickup trucks as groundcover
more info:
White Trash Gardening
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