A guide to gardening without harmful chemicals covers the basic principles of organic gardening and offers practical sections on improving soil fertility and controlling garden pests. Original. 25,000 first printing.

A guide to growing vegetables, fruit, flowers, and more without harmful chemicals covers the basic principles of organic gardening and offers practical sections on improving soil fertility and controlling garden pests. Original

Product Description: In this book BBC-TV's popular gardening expert shares his 35 years of practical hands-on experience making it the ultimate reference book and the key to a lifetime of successful gardening. It is designed as a fully comprehensive course to take new and more experienced gardeners through all the practical skills needed to create and maintain a flourishing and healthy garden...read more

Product Description: Aimed at the novice gardener, this encyclopaedia is a revised version of two books - "The First Time Garden" and "First Time Planting" - which were previously published separately. It includes advice on topics such as planning, soil preparation, hard landscaping, lawns, and specific features such as scree and rock gardens...read more

Product Description: The ornamental kitchen represents a return to traditional methods once found in gardens in many parts of the world, from medieval monasteries to Victorian kitchen-gardens, in which fruit, flowers and vegetables were planted in the same beds in an attractive and productive mix...read more

Product Description: The cottage-garden style has been part of British gardening for centuries. The first cottage gardeners had little time, space and money, and designed simple and practical settings for their homes which, in time, developed into more elaborate, and sometimes extravagant, gardens...read more

Product Description: Assuming no previous knowledge of gardening, this is a guide through the process of taking over an existing garden (whether a wilderness or an inner-city yard), especially one which has seen better days. The topics covered include stamping your own personality on a garden, weed clearing, soil renovation, laying a new lawn, planting trees, cutting back overgrown shrubs, dealing with tree stumps and stubborn weeds and patchy lawns, disguising fences and other eyesores, and renovating rock gardens, pools and ponds, and pergolas...read more

Product Description: This paperback manual sets out effective strategies for working with, rather than against, nature. Illustrated in full-color showing exactly how to use a comprehensive range of chemical-free techniques, the book enables readers to create an outdoor environment that will not harm children, pets, or wildlife...read more

Shows how to construct walls, patios, driveways, paths, and other stonework

Provides information on garden design, soil, lawn care, bulbs, biennials and annuals, vegetables, container gardening, and more

Product Description: Book by Search, Gay, Hamilton, Geoff

Provides information on building a small garden, discussing tools, getting rid of weeds, evaluating soil, erecting fences, and caring for hedges and lawns, building pools, and more