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Do you want a luxurious lawn? More beautiful flower beds, or hints for making your yard look bigger or smaller? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips. This incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century gardeners is guaranteed to give you a green thumb! Early gardeners knew what they were doing-they had to because they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation. Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. This book includes: -Old-time wisdom boxes that highlight early gardeners' best planting notions -Tried-and true recipes from yesterday's kitchens -Strange but true features that reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques -A recommended reading list
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1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips
Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did
Old-time gardeners were ahead of their time! Their ideas for wildflower gardens, children's gardens, organic pest controls, decorating with houseplants, healing with herbs, and more are at the forefront of modern gardening trends. Take a look back to the future of gardening with this incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners.
Early gardeners knew what they were doing--they had to, since they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation! Whether you're growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruits, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, houseplants, or lawn grass, these old-time tips will help you get the most out of your plantings. Do you want a lusher lawn? How about more beautiful flowerbeds or hints for making your yard look bigger? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips.
Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. Discover creative ways to landscape your home with fanciful topiary tree houses or practical hedges and windbreaks. From fruits to nuts and artichokes to watermelons, you'll find recommendations for healthier harvests--not to mention recipes for unique and tasty side dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. Plus: hundreds of organic techniques that have been proven effective by generations of great gardeners! Look for these special features and more:
* "Old-Time Wisdom" boxes present early gardeners' best planting notions.
* Tried-and-true recipes from early kitchens will tickle your tastebuds.
* "Strange but True" boxes reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques.
* A source list makes it easy to locate wonderful old-time plants.
* Authentic old-time illustrations take you back to a time when garden tips were on everyone's lips.
* A "Recommended Reading" list guides you to more great ideas from the past.
Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did
Old-time gardeners were ahead of their time! Their ideas for wildflower gardens, children's gardens, organic pest controls, decorating with houseplants, healing with herbs, and more are at the forefront of modern gardening trends. Take a look back to the future of gardening with this incredible collection of gardening advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners.
Early gardeners knew what they were doing--they had to, since they depended on their plants for food, medicine, home decorations, and recreation! Whether you're growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruits, trees, shrubs, wildflowers, houseplants, or lawn grass, these old-time tips will help you get the most out of your plantings. Do you want a lusher lawn? How about more beautiful flowerbeds or hints for making your yard look bigger? You'll find all that and more in 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips.
Learn how to read weather signs, improve your soil organically, hide landscape eyesores with ease, decorate your home with flowering vines, and soothe sore joints with herbal remedies. Discover creative ways to landscape your home with fanciful topiary tree houses or practical hedges and windbreaks. From fruits to nuts and artichokes to watermelons, you'll find recommendations for healthier harvests--not to mention recipes for unique and tasty side dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. Plus: hundreds of organic techniques that have been proven effective by generations of great gardeners! Look for these special features and more:
* "Old-Time Wisdom" boxes present early gardeners' best planting notions.
* Tried-and-true recipes from early kitchens will tickle your tastebuds.
* "Strange but True" boxes reveal weird, wacky, and wonderful gardening techniques.
* A source list makes it easy to locate wonderful old-time plants.
* Authentic old-time illustrations take you back to a time when garden tips were on everyone's lips.
* A "Recommended Reading" list guides you to more great ideas from the past.
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What do you need to create beautiful flower beds and lush lawns? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
window gardening, tufted pansies, wheel hoe, siberian crabapple, asparagus beetles, native ferns, black corn, cucumber beetles, bush fruits, bog garden, corn salad, heirloom varieties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Editor's Note, American Agriculturist, Loudon An Encyclopedia of Gardening, The Gardener's Monthly, The Household, Loring Underwood, Bennett The Vegetable Garden, Bennett The Flower Garden, Louise Beebe Wilder Colour, Seymour Garden Profits, Amelia Leavitt Hill Garden Portraits, Louise Beebe Wilder The Fragrant Path, Marie Theresa Villiers Earle More Pot-Pourri, Surrey Garden, Williams Window Gardening, Bailey The Principles of Vegetable Gardening, Genesee Farmer, Louisa King The Well-Considered Garden, Barbara The Garden, Edward Sprague Rand The Window Gardener, Egan Making, Henry Ward Beecher Fruits, Quinn Money, Bowles My Garden, Garden of Perennials New!
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What do you need to create beautiful flower beds and lush lawns? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
window gardening, tufted pansies, wheel hoe, siberian crabapple, asparagus beetles, native ferns, black corn, cucumber beetles, bush fruits, bog garden, corn salad, heirloom varieties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Editor's Note, American Agriculturist, Loudon An Encyclopedia of Gardening, The Gardener's Monthly, The Household, Loring Underwood, Bennett The Vegetable Garden, Bennett The Flower Garden, Louise Beebe Wilder Colour, Seymour Garden Profits, Amelia Leavitt Hill Garden Portraits, Louise Beebe Wilder The Fragrant Path, Marie Theresa Villiers Earle More Pot-Pourri, Surrey Garden, Williams Window Gardening, Bailey The Principles of Vegetable Gardening, Genesee Farmer, Louisa King The Well-Considered Garden, Barbara The Garden, Edward Sprague Rand The Window Gardener, Egan Making, Henry Ward Beecher Fruits, Quinn Money, Bowles My Garden, Garden of Perennials New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Fragrant Path: A Book About Sweet Scented Flowers and Leaves by Louise Beebe Wilder on 17 pages
- Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden: The Classic Diary of a Victorian Lady by Mrs. C.W. Earle on 14 pages
- Culinary Herbs and Condiments by Maud Grieve on 10 pages
- The English Flower Garden by William Robinson on 10 pages
- My Garden in Summer (My Garden Series) by E. A. Bowles on 7 pages
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