Titres dans Jardinage et horticulture

You don’t need expensive landscape designers to help you fall in love with your home. By investing your own time into your outside property, you'll not only raise the value of your home and boost its curb appeal, but you'll also give your landscape your own personal twist. With Learn to Landscape, you’ll find the knowledge and confidence you need to tackle projects ranging from blooming floral arrangements to stone patios, all while putting your own unique spin on them. There's never been a better time than now to start.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

Building Your Permaculture Property offers a revolutionary holistic method to overcome overwhelm in the complex process of resilient land design. It distills the authors' decades of experience as engineers, farmers, educators, and consultants into a five-step process complete with principles, practices, templates, and workflow tools.

Hugelkultur raised bed gardening. This is perhaps one of the most ancient of the no-dig gardening techniques for growing fruit and vegetables, originating in the Black Forest region of Germany, it has been around for many centuries. Created as a way to grow food in areas where good arable land was limited, the Hugelkultur makes use of material that would otherwise be discarded as useless - forest debris and other garden waste.

Destiny "Dee" is a curious young four-year-old girl who enjoys taking nature adventures. This time she is in her grandma’s backyard garden, also known as the Out Back in the Sonoran Desert, getting ready for the sweet potato harvest season. During this sweet potato harvest season, Destiny discovers how to make a special pie. But what kind of pie is Destiny going to make?

Have you ever had compost that would not break down? Or compost that turned into a smelly mess? You are not alone. Millions of people struggle with making compost at home. Composting is such an integral part of gardening that learning to get it right allows you to become a master of your special place. This audiobook will take you on a journey of how the microbial life in your soil and compost play vital roles in your garden. You will learn why specific things happen when making compost and how to solve common problems.

Healthy eating doesn’t have to be limiting. Incorporating a variety of nutritious vegetables into your diet just got a lot easier—and fun! If you’re looking to find even more ways to enjoy healthy foods, expand your green intake, try new things, and create your own supply of microgreens, this guide is for you. Treat your body to the care it deserves by feeding it nutrient-dense microgreens. Let this book convince you of the power of these tiny greens. Be healthy and feel great with your newfound knowledge of how to buy, use, and grow your own microgreens!

From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as gifts. The essential, underlying unity of the world.

If you want to learn how to garden, improve your gardening skills, and become a better gardener, then check out HowExpert Guide to Gardening. HowExpert Guide to Gardening is a complete handbook of everything you need to know to grow the garden of your dreams. In this guide, you’ll learn how to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and houseplants. Included are detailed descriptions of some of the best plants you can grow, as well as how to maintain them so that they thrive in your garden.

Para hacer realidad su sueño de ser un agricultor urbano, tiene que empezar hoy mismo. La buena noticia es que puede empezar a practicar la agricultura urbana en casa sin salir de la ciudad. Sí, puede que no tenga suficiente espacio en su jardín para cultivar maíz y trigo. Sin embargo, aún puede cosechar una cantidad increíble de muchos cultivos utilizando una colección de contenedores y colocándolos en su patio, balcón o comunidad local. Este libro le guiará sobre cómo el cultivo urbano en el hogar es una encrucijada de autosuficiencia y vida moderna.

David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth present 100 home projects designed to inspire and empower anyone who wants to help save our native flora and fauna in the face of habitat loss and climate change. This book focuses on saving creatures and plants that are especially vulnerable but that can be successfully helped by our efforts, such as bees, frogs, butterflies, birds, trees, and wildflowers. 

Make money successfully selling the most elusive, expensive spice on Earth—Growing Saffron for Profit will help lead the way! Do you want to take your love for gardening on another level? Have you always wondered what it’s like growing saffron and how people make money off of it? Are you looking for a comprehensive saffron business resource that will tell you exactly what to do to make it big? Even if you’ve never handled saffron or your own business before, Growing Saffron for Profit can certainly give you the clarity you need to get started.

Building your own home is a sizable task and, of course, when it’s been your dream for so long, you want things to be right. But this doesn't have to leave you frozen in your tracks. Building a house is just like any other great journey—it unfolds one beautiful (and sometimes tiny) step at a time. The good news is that what this path of tiny steps looks like is very clear and straightforward. Finally, a specific and detailed guide to help you maneuver these first steps and get your land ready for the build is here!

Houseplants for a Healthy Home: The Ultimate Guide to Learning and Growing Successful Indoor Plants is your friendly potted plant expert. Whether you are new to houseplants or a seasoned collector, this guide will help you get the most out of the plants in your home. Houseplants are a great way to add color to your home and improve mood. They will brighten up a room, but they can also clean the air, reduce stress, and boost your overall well-being. Discover which plants are best for improving air quality and how to care for specific plants.

Cultivating herbs for medical use is an ancient and powerful practice—ginger to boost your immune system, basil to ease your morning sickness, garlic to soothe your child’s cough—all these are there in your own kitchen closet. Plus, you can have 71 more science-backed ailments and their remedies in your backyard at your fingertips. But that’s just the beginning…your body’s natural wisdom is just waiting to be unlocked. But our modern, harsh chemicals can block that potential from ever being realized.

If you’re ready to distance yourself from Big Pharma and become naturally self-sufficient, then you’ve just found your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! This book covers all the basics you need to know. Ava Green takes her five decades of experience as a home apothecary and gives you the perfect guide for all beginner medicinal herb growers. With Grow Your Own Medicine, you can be the self-sufficient apothecary for you and your family. Reconnect with Mother Nature and let her do the rest. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by.

You may think you don’t have the time or the money to start a big permaculture project. But permaculture doesn’t need to be overwhelming. You can start as small as you like, and you can move at a pace that suits you. Don’t feel you have to learn everything in one go and rush out to transform a whole wilderness in a year. Just deal in manageable chunks, and you’ll do just fine. Even if all you have done is tend to a few tomato plants on your window ledge, you can become an expert gardener; all it takes is a little time, patience, and practice.

La verdad es que nuestro cuerpo nos da señales para sanar los desequilibrios. Pero si ignoramos estas señales y SÓLO confiamos en los medicamentos convencionales para cubrir los síntomas en lugar de buscar y gestionar la causa raíz, esto puede ser una receta para el desastre. Si quieres deshacerte de tus dolencias, tienes que encontrar y tratar la raíz del problema. Eso es posible con las hierbas medicinales, ¡y este libro te mostrará el camino!

Many of us want to increase our self-sufficiency, but few have access to the ideal five gently sloping acres of rich, loamy, well-drained soil. Jenni Blackmore presents a highly entertaining, personal account of how permaculture can be practiced in adverse conditions, allowing anyone to learn to live more sustainably in a less-than-perfect world.

Are you a bit of a tea addict? Sneaking in a few too many tea breaks in a day? No need for shame, join the group! For those who love tea, you are definitely in the right place! Who is this audiobook for? For you tea lovers out there who are looking for a fresh adventure but have never grown anything before. For all you vegetable and herb growers out there looking to add tea to your plant repertoire. For all you entrepreneurs out there looking to potentially start your own specialty tea brand. And finally, for those of you looking to save a bit of money by growing your own tea.