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"Worm Farming - Creating Compost At Home With Vermiculture" is for anyone who wants to know more about worm farming and creating high quality compost at home from their kitchen waste. Worm farming is seeing a massive increase in popularity as people seek natural and organic methods of farming and producing fruit, vegetables and flowers at home. This book is your complete guide to worm farming, taking you step-by-step through the entire process from selecting worms to building your worm farm to breeding your worms and much, much more. As you read this book you will get an in-depth insight ...

New and Updated Edition "How To Grow Potatoes" is for anyone who wants to know how to grow their own delicious potatoes at home. Whether it is your first time growing potatoes or you've been growing them for a while, this book is jam packed full of information to help you successfully grow this vegetable at home. Growing potatoes can be easy but there are all sorts of pitfalls and problems which could potentially ruin your crop. This book provides you with a step by step guide to growing potatoes at home successfully. With the information in this book you will avoid the many problems people...

"Cooking With Zucchini - Delicious Recipes, Preserves and More With Zucchini" is for anyone who is overwhelmed with the zucchini coming off the plants in the garden. The book is full of ideas on how to creatively, and deliciously, cope with a glut of zucchini. Most people will throw some zucchini in with any regular meal, fry it or grill it, as those are the most common uses for it. However, there are plenty of other ways of eating a zucchini that are both inventive and delicious. It is a surprisingly versatile vegetable that can be used for anything from a delicious, sweet cake through to ...

"Square Foot Gardening - Growing More In Less Space" is for anyone who wants to grow more from less space using a high yield gardening method that is simple to follow. Undoubtedly you garden the traditional way already, perhaps you even have some raised beds. What if you could increase the amount of fruits and vegetables you harvest from that space without having to increase the amount of work you need to do? In fact, what if you could reduce the amount of time it takes to look after your vegetable garden? This is where square foot gardening comes in to its own. This system allows you to ...

The "Complete Allotment Guide - Volume 1" is the first in a series of books teaching you everything you need to know to get started growing fruit and vegetables. Whether you have an allotment, a smallholding or a vegetable garden at home, you will learn how to start growing in the ground and in containers. This step-by-step guide starts from first principles, teaching you everything from how to choose an allotment to clearing weeds, coping with the weather and how to set your vegetable garden up. You learn exactly what to look for when choosing an allotment plus how to apply and how ...

When you have an allotment, a key part of successfully growing year after year is to plan what you are going to grow and where you are going to grow it. On top of this, you need to remember what you planted where last year so you avoid pests and diseases building up in the soil. This book helps you to plan your allotment or vegetable garden, covering everything from planning your vegetable plot to tracking what you are planting and more. It is designed to help you get the most out of your allotment while still keeping growing vegetables as good fun and you not getting bogged down with ...

"Growing Brassicas" is an in-depth guide showing you exactly how to grow a wide variety of brassica or cruciferous vegetables at home. Whether you want to grow the common broccoli or cauliflower or the more unusual romanesco or the superfood maca. There are a lot of vegetables in the brassica family and they have some surprising health benefits for you, plus they are really tasty! The real benefit of these vegetables for the home gardener, is that many of these are cool season plants, ideal for temperate climates and for growing over winter. They make an excellent crop to plant after the ...

"Cooking With Courgettes - Delicious Recipes, Preserves and More With Courgettes" is for anyone who is overwhelmed with the courgettes coming off the plants in the garden. The book is full of ideas on how to creatively, and deliciously, cope with a glut of courgettes. Most people will throw some courgettes in with any regular meal, fry it or grill it, as those are the most common uses for it. However, there are plenty of other ways of eating a courgette that are both inventive and delicious. It is a surprisingly versatile vegetable that can be used for anything from a delicious, sweet cake ...

"Growing Chillies - A Beginners Guide To Growing, Using and Surviving Chillies" is for anyone who wants to successfully grow chillies at home. Chillies are a very popular vegetable or spice, ranging from the sweet bell and banana peppers through to the popular Tabasco and jalapeno peppers to the scorchingly hot chillies such as the Trinidad scorpion, ghost pepper and the infamous Carolina Reaper. Chillies are notoriously difficult to grow, with many of the hotter varieties being incredibly tempermental and fussy, causing many people excited to grow hot peppers to struggle to even get the ...

"Growing Herbs - A Beginners Guide To Growing, Using, Harvesting and Storing Herbs" is for everyone who wants to grow herbs at home. Whether you are growing them to attract bees, for use in the kitchen or for their health or beauty properties, this book walks you through everything you need to know to successful grow 49 different types of herb. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of species of herb and plenty of varieties within that. Some are easy to grow, some are harder, but many common herbs grow wild as weeds yet have a multitude of uses that many of us have forgotten about....

"Companion Planting Secrets - Organic Gardening to Deter Pests and Increase Yield" is for anyone who wants to learn more about companion planting. Discover how you can reduce your use of chemicals, attract beneficial insects and improve the quality of fruits and vegetables just by putting the right plants together. Companion planting can be overwhelming because there is so much information. This book cuts through all the old wive's tales and gives you clear, concise and to the point information on how to improve your plants through companion planting. This complete, step-by-step guide ...

"Berry Gardening - The Complete Guide" is your in-depth guide to growing berries at home. Whether you are growing more common berries like strawberries or raspberries, or the more unusual like honeyberries or wineberries, this book tells you everything you need to know to start successfully growing berries at home. There are lots of different types of berries and we see just a few of them in the stores. There are many more that you could grow, many of which are delicious and beneficial to you! Expensive berries such as goji berries can easily be grown at home almost anywhere in the world. ...

New and updated thirdedition, with a step by step guide to building your own compost bin, new information and the latest in the best composting methods. "Composting Made Easy" is for anyone who wants to know more about how to produce their own eco-friendly compost that is one of the best feeds for your plants. Home-made compost is a secret behind many a competition winning vegetables. However, many people think that composting is just throwing things in a pile and letting nature take its course, there is much more involved with it than just that. This book explains everything you need to ...

Fruit is one of the most enjoyable things you can grow and there are so many different types of fruit. Even more exciting, is that most types of fruit have a multitude of cultivars that can be subtly or wildly different. There are over 2,500 apple varieties in the UK alone and well over 7,000 worldwide and the differences in cultivar are amazing. This book teaches you all about growing fruit, whether you are planning an orchard, a few fruit plants at your allotment or even just growing some fruit on your balcony or in your yard. With details of 48 different types of fruit, there is ...

"Fruit Growing - The Complete Guide To Growing Fruit At Home" is for anyone who wants to know more about growing their own delicious fruit at home. Whether you are looking to grow a few plants or grow fruit on a larger scale you will find everything you need to know in this step-by-step guide. I wrote this book to give you everything you need to know about growing fruit whether you are a beginner, expert or have dabbled in growing fruit before. When you read this book you get tips, advice and guidance on growing fruit at home successfully plus how to harvest that fruit, store it, cook with ...

"Growing Lavender - Growing, Using, Cooking and Healing with Lavender" is your in-depth guide to the amazing lavender plant. Not only does lavender look and smell fantastic in your garden, it is an incredibly useful plant used for health, beauty and cooking. This book gives you all the information you need to know to successfully grow lavender at home, including how to avoid the number one mistake people make that kills their new plants! You will learn all about the different varieties of lavender and find out which ones are best in the kitchen, which are best for beauty, and which are best...

"Save Our Bees - Your Guide To Creating A Bee Friendly Environment" is a guide to show you what you can do to save our dwindling bee population. Over 70% of our food crops are pollinated by bees; a species that is dying out at a frightening rate. Scientists have expressed their concern that if something is not done soon to stop these pollinating insects disappearing, we will face serious, irreparable problems with the world's food supply. Bees are an amazing species of insect; there are over 25,000 different types of bee on the planet, with over 4,000 in the USA and around 250 in the United...

“Growing Giant Pumpkins - How To Grow Massive Pumpkins At Home” is for anyone who wants to know how they can grow pumpkins that weigh hundreds of pounds at home, even if they've never grown one before! A lot of people have tried growing pumpkins and you end up with a crop not much bigger than those you buy in the stores, if they even survive. However, what if you could grow a pumpkin that would dwarf those and be the talk of your neighbourhood? This book is aimed at the home gardener who wants to take a short cut to successfully growing giant pumpkins. With this step-by-step guide in ...

"Environmentally Friendly Gardening" is a guide to how the home gardener can become more environmentally friendly. Whether it is attracting insects, sequestering carbon or reducing your carbon impact, this book will tell you how to be eco-friendly and help the environment. It is surprising how much of an impact gardens have on the environment, particularly this modern need for sterile environments full of artificial grass, wooden decking or carefully laid out flowers. If you think about how gardens were ten or twenty years ago, there is a significant difference now that is not so good for ...

"Container Gardening - Growing Fruits & Vegetables in Small Spaces" is for anyone who wants to find out more about growing vegetables, herbs or flowers in pots. This is an great way for you to grow plants in limited space or even without a garden! Starting your first container garden can feel a little overwhelming as there are so many different types of container and different types of plant you can grow. This book though guides you through the minefield and explains everything you need to know to create your own beautiful and productive vegetable garden. This step-by-step guide walks you ...