Even the smallest back yard can be transformed into a beautiful and highly productive garden, if you work in harmony with nature. This book shows you how to plan your garden layout for easy access and minimum labour, save money by creating a beautiful garden in recycled containers, use garden crop successions for year-round harvests and healthy soil, choose the best plants for different sites and enjoy the benefits of plant communities. Helpful advice for every gardener, including planning a garden from a bare plot, designing raised beds, creating ponds and streams, building terraces on slopes, constructing greenhouses and providing special areas for children or animals is included. Whether you're aiming for just a few improvements or the beginnings of self-sufficiency, you can "do your bit" to green the planet with the help of this lively and highly practical guide.
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Follow the principles of nature to create your own self-sustaining Garden of Eden--one that is dazzling, functional, and chemical-free.
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Graham Bell is the former editor of Permaculture News.He worked for the Prince’s Trust and is now a freelance environmental consultant. He lives and works in the Scottish Borders, and is married with two children.
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The Permaculture Garden, Helpful Techniques, Adding Features, The Forest Garden, New Zealand, Hawthorn Crataegus, Broom Cytisus, Bamboo Arundaria, Earth Shaping, Gorse Ulex, Marigold Calendula, Chives Allium, Elderberry Sambucus, Mulberry Morus, Radish Raphanus, Edible Sea, Rosemary Rosmarinus, Honeysuckle Lonicera, Whitebeam Sorbus, Chicory Chicorium, Lovage Levisticum, Buckwheat Fagopyrum, Beech Fagus Browse Sample Pages:
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The Permaculture Garden, Helpful Techniques, Adding Features, The Forest Garden, New Zealand, Hawthorn Crataegus, Broom Cytisus, Bamboo Arundaria, Earth Shaping, Gorse Ulex, Marigold Calendula, Chives Allium, Elderberry Sambucus, Mulberry Morus, Radish Raphanus, Edible Sea, Rosemary Rosmarinus, Honeysuckle Lonicera, Whitebeam Sorbus, Chicory Chicorium, Lovage Levisticum, Buckwheat Fagopyrum, Beech Fagus Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Sanctuary Garden: Creating a Place of Refuge in Your Yard or Garden by Christopher For Mcdowell in Back Matter
- Gardening for the Future of the Earth by Howard-Yana Shapiro Ph.D. in Back Matter
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