Keyhole Gardening

Author : James Paris
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519593542
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keyhole Gardening written by James Paris and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing vegetables in small spaces or under adverse conditions can be a bit of a challenge at times! This is where niche gardening ideas like the Keyhole Garden come into play, and small spaces can be converted to produce great results. Growing vegetables for some can be a rewarding pastime, whilst for others it is a question of survival - if you can't grow it, then you can't eat it!Here we have one of the most successful of the Niche Vegetable Gardening ideas, but perhaps one that is the least talked about - Keyhole Gardening. Originally conceived off and promoted by the charity SendACow.org and now used successfully by many enthusiastic gardeners worldwide.Keyhole Gardening can now take its place amongst the other niche gardening methods such as Raised Bed, Square Foot, Straw Bale, and container gardening - to name but a few. If you would like to get the best results out of your vegetable growing efforts in small spaces or with limited resources - perhaps it's time to give the Keyhole Gardening concept a chance to impress!

Author : Sally Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085784332X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living on One Acre or Less written by Sally Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and comprehensive guide, filled with everything you need to set up your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently. With the help of this handy book, you can grow all the fruit and vegetables your family needs, raise animals for meat and eggs, keep fish and bees, and even produce firewood on a plot of land of just one acre or less – all alongside your work and family life. Whether you have a garden, a paddock or perhaps the corner of a field, Sally Morgan guides you through various useful topics, including growing fruit and vegetables throughout the year, producing fish with aquaponics, and keeping livestock – poultry, pigs, sheep and goats. There is also helpful information on how to layout your plot, including fencing, poly tunnels or greenhouses, and tips on managing soil fertility. This updated edition also includes a chapter on coping with extreme weather conditions. Filled with practical advice, Living on One Acre or Less is essential reading for anyone who aspires to take control of their food supply or who wants to do more with the land they've got.

Author : Deborah A. Tolman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517361358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soiled Rotten written by Deborah A. Tolman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keyhole garden is the ultimate raised-bed planter. It's six feet in diameter, with a composting basket in the center that leaches moisture and nutrients into the soil. Dr. Deb Tolman eats from her keyhole gardens all year round, and she reminds us that we don't have to spend hundreds of dollars a month on groceries when we can grow healthy produce at home. Her harvesting routinely includes carrots, kale, chard, tomatoes, berries and more, rivaling the best farmers markets around. In this book, you'll learn how to use compost and create a keyhole garden filled with delicious, nutritious fruits and vegetables. Whether you're a first-time gardener or a gardening pro, this book is your step-by-step guide to an amazing harvest.

Author : W Leon Smith
Publisher : Smith Media, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780996900614
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Your Garden in a Keyhole written by W Leon Smith and published by Smith Media, Incorporated. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to get off the grid and provide healthy, safe food for your family? Please consider your own backyard keyhole garden farm, suggests the author. W. Leon Smith is an experienced keyhole gardener, having spent several years experimenting with crop varieties and helping others create their own backyard keyhole farms. He regularly gives presentations to Master Gardener functions where he explains his adventures into this worthwhile concept of the perfect gardening system. His interest in keyhole gardens led to the creation of his small company, www.keyholefarm.com, that manufactures easy-to-build keyhole garden kits. He feels it is crucial for families to explore the idea of raising their own vegetables, what with the influx of GMOs (genetically modified organisms), the secret and abundant use of pesticides on food, and grocery shelves where vegetables have quite often been harvested too early, thereby reducing nutrition and taste. "Why not raise your own quality food in a keyhole raised-bed garden?" Smith says. This book explains the concept and provides useful tips. "Keyhole gardens conserve water," said Smith. "They are easier on the back than traditional gardens. They promote recycling. They allow crops to be planted closer together, and the harvests are remarkable in such a small compact area. "Keyhole gardens also offer a splendid opportunity to teach youngsters the time-honored skills of raising their own crops, important survival methods that will stay with them all their lives."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soil Biology Primer written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Toby Hemenway
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603580298
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaia's Garden written by Toby Hemenway and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

Author : Rick Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481839778
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Garden of Survival written by Rick Austin and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for you and your family for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide-- ever. All diguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season!

Author : Nicole Johnsey Burke
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
ISBN 13 : 0760366861
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kitchen Garden Revival written by Nicole Johnsey Burke and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elevate your backyard veggie patch into a work of sophisticated and stylish art. Kitchen Garden Revival guides you through every aspect of kitchen gardening, from design to harvesting—with expert advice from author Nicole Johnsey Burke, founder of Rooted Garden, one of the leading US culinary landscape companies, and Gardenary, an online kitchen gardening education and resource company. Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family’s table. If you’ve hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn’t seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there’s a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into a patch of dirt in the middle of the yard, kitchen gardens are attractive, highly tailored food gardens consisting of easy-to-maintain raised planting beds laid out in an organized geometric pattern. Offering both four seasons of ornamental interest and plenty of fresh, homegrown fruits, vegetables, and herbs, kitchen gardens are the way to grow your own food in a fashionable, modern, and practical way. Kitchen gardens were once popular features of the European and early American landscape, but they fell out of favor when our agrarian roots were displaced by industrialization. With this accessible and inspirational guide, Nicole aims to return the kitchen garden to its rightful place just outside of every backdoor. Learn the art of kitchen gardening as you discover: What characteristics all kitchen gardens have in common How to design and install gorgeous kitchen garden beds using metal, wood, or stone Why raised beds mean reduced maintenance What crops are best for your kitchen garden A planting, tending, and harvesting plan developed by a pro Season-by-season growing guides It's time to join the Kitchen Garden Revival and start growing your own delicious, organic food.

Author : Michelle Balz
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
ISBN 13 : 0760368708
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No-Waste Composting written by Michelle Balz and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In No-Waste Composting, you’ll discover the hows and whys of composting and find over a dozen practical step-by-step plans for building both indoor and outdoor composting systems that require a minimal amount of space. “I don’t have enough space to compost.” “I don’t know what’s safe to compost and what isn’t.” “I live in the city, so I don’t think I can compost.” “Indoor composting systems are smelly.” “I don’t have a garden, so I don’t need to compost.” If any of these is your excuse for not composting, then this is the book for you! Small-space composting has never been easier, more efficient, and more eco-friendly. Composting keeps millions of tons of waste out of landfills and creates carbon-sequestering, nutrient-dense compost that can be used to help fuel plant growth (including houseplants!) and build soil health. Build a DIY worm-composting system for a cupboard or garage Craft a layered, under-the-sink composting system from terra cotta pots Construct a simple outdoor compost bin from repurposed wooden pallets Use upcycled wire fencing to build a mobile composting system on the driveway Learn how to compost larger sticks and branches to build new food and flower gardens Upcycle a plastic bucket to make an indoor compost fermenting system Plus, you’ll find plans to keep cat and dog waste out of the landfill by using a groundbreaking (and safe) DIY composting system. And if you don’t garden, author and composting professional Michelle Balz offers plenty of other ways you can utilize the wonderful, crumbly compost you create. Whether you’re just starting your no-waste journey or you’re a seasoned recycling and repurposing pro, No-Waste Composting is an invaluable tool to have at your side. This book is part of the Cool Springs Press No-Waste Gardening series, which also includes No-Waste Kitchen Gardening and No-Waste Organic Gardening.

Author : Margaret Roach
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604698772
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Way to Garden written by Margaret Roach and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.