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GARDENING sa ARID GARDENING sa ARTIFICIAL LIGHT GARDENING sa BONSAI sa COLD FRAME & HOTBED sa COLOR IN GARDENS sa COMPOSTING sa CONTAINER GARDENING sa COTTAGE GARDEN sa CULTIVATION sa FARMING sa FERTILIZER sa FLOWER GARDENING sa FRUIT sa GARDEN WALL sa GARDENING BUSINESS sa GARDENING CLOTHES sa GARDENING FOR CHILDREN sa GARDENING TOOL sa GREENHOUSE sa HERB GARDENING sa HYDROPONIC GARDENING sa INSECT sa KNOT GARDEN sa LANDSCAPING sa MULCHING sa NUT sa ORGANIC GARDENING sa PLANT sa PLANT MARKER sa PLANT WATERING sa PLANTING & TRANSPLANTING sa PLOWING sa PRUNING sa RAISED-BED GARDENING sa ROCK GARDEN sa SCENTED GARDEN sa SHADE GARDEN sa SOIL & SOIL CONDITIONING sa SOIL BLOCK sa TERRARIUM sa TOPIARY sa VEGETABLE GARDENING sa WATER GARDEN sa WEED CONTROL x HORTICULTURE xx FARMING xx LANDSCAPING xx PLANT How to garden in a drought. A collection of tips from early American gardeners and farmers. A look at the Whipple House Garden in Ipswich, Massachusetts, that is planted in seventeenth century style with flowers and herbs. Includes a sketch and explanation of how to plan and plant a colonial garden. Photo shows how a screen of 1x6s makes a mini-garden in front of a large window. Redwood panels installed around the window add a "frame" effect to the picture. Early, Mid and Late summer tips for backyard gardeners. This continuation of the April 1976 BH&G article gives suggestions on harvesting, mulching and fighting pests. Gardening in small spaces. Space-saving tips to beautify an entire yard with flowers, vegetables and herbs. Gardening where you live. Midsummer gardening tips and techniques from gardeners in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Georgia. Garden companions. Suggestions on combining plants for a pleasing contrast in color, shape and size of flowers and leaves. How to insure that both indoor and outdoor plants survive the winter in perfect health. Spring gardening tips for lawn, vegetable garden, planting, etc. Turn an unused part of your backyard into a Japanese garden. Some ideas. Scrounging for the garden. Tips on off-season scrounging for containers to start seedlings, old wire fencing, mulching materials and scrap lumber for stakes. Keep track of your garden year-to-year by keeping a garden record book. Some tips. The principles of crop rotation. Gardening basics. Common questions and answers. Frostproof your garden to enjoy the Indian Summer harvest by turning on sprinklers on cold nights, covering up plants, don't plant on slopes or valleys, and shelter plants with others but allow air circulation. Pruning and frost resistant soil discussed. Special ALMANAC issue includes many measurement tables, statistical tables, formulas, tips and techniques. Topics covered include field, garden, livestock, cooking, equipment, measurements, wood heating and folklore. Layout for a Southern garden features vegetables, herbs, and flowers, brick walks, a patio area, and picket fences. Plans for a courtyard garden. 57 great ways to spruce up your garden. How to plan, when to prune, how to stake, etc. Checklist for spring lawn and garden care. Garden facts for fall. Tips on letting nature help you garden, thus reducing routine maintenance time. Includes a discussion of mulching, watering, lawn care, plant selection, etc. Six garden tips. Supplementary feeding, watering schedules, battling bugs, light pruning, summer planting, and starting a new lawn are covered. Early fall care for garden and grounds. Includes making leaf mold, compost, transplanting shrubs, and a chart showing planting depth for twelve bulb plants. Planting primer. Tips on properly setting out a new plant or shrub to guarantee that it will grow. Mid-summer garden care. How to keep lawn, flowers and vegetables at their best during the hot months. How to get a garden, lawn and shrubs ready for winter. Tips on planting shrubs, trees and bulbs. Yard and garden planner. Special section. Do backyard chores without back strain. Photos show the proper way to use a spade, lift heavy objects, swing a pick, and use a wheelbarrow. Tune-up exercises also shown. Twelve ways to protect your plants against winter. Tips for trees, shrubs, and perennials. A lifelong garden. Forty years of creating a garden in Dedham, Massachusetts. Article describes the design, irrigation, and creation of a pond. Inserts describe how the edge of the plastic pond-liner was disguised and the use of wooden shingles to edge paths and for terracing. A look at vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM), fungi that help plants grow better. Offers suggestions on using VAM in the home garden. Gertrude Jekyll's garden design principles summarized. A look at color combinations, the role of foliage and site appropriateness. Making a map of your garden that is easily updated as plants are added or moved. A small townhouse garden. How one renter surrounded a small patio with colorful annual flowers and a few vegetables, supplemented with containers of culinary herbs and annuals. Tips on keeping a diary of your gardening efforts. What to include in the diary and what you can learn from the diary. Creating paradise, a garden that feeds the soul. Advice on fulfilling personal desires, developing a garden philosophy, and on designing a garden. Tip describes how to use adhesive sports tape to protect fingertips, nails and cuticles when gardening. The tale of a garden that traces the journey of life. How to design and plant a Japanese garden. Technique for finding attractive planting combinations. High style and low maintenance gardens. Redesigning a garden to take advantage of low-maintenance techniques which are not linked to either climate or culture. Tip on using spreadsheet computer software to store and manipulate information on all the plants considered for your garden. Turn lawn into garden. Three ways to remove turf so you can put in a new planting bed. Tips on creating a garden that can also accommodate pet dogs. Winterizing the garden. Tips on mulching, cleaning, perennials, trees, shrubs, roses, animal damage, etc. Garden diaries. A guide to creating a journal of your gardening activities, often called the most useful "tool" you can have. Sneeze-free gardening. A plant lover's allergy-survival guide. Fall. The other planting season. An ideal time to establish many plants. What and what-not to plant in the fall, planting trees and shrubs, pruning, etc. How to read a garden catalog. Mining a wealth of gardening information from mail sources. An artful forest garden. Suggestions on planting the floor of a pine woodland in such a way that retains its nature as a woods. Tip on how to chart the sun in your garden. Tip describes how to make a gardener's photo journal. When the garden grows too big. An efficient maintenance routine that allows time for leisure. Tip tells how to make magnetic garden templates for designing garden beds. Advice for gardening on a windy site and some plant suggestions. A tapestry of textures. How to use contrast in garden design. Techniques for allergy-prone gardeners to minimize exposure to pollen, mold and fungi. Guidelines for planning good programs for a garden club. A list of the names and addresses of over 40 plant societies for hobby gardeners. A look at various ways to use plastics in the garden and greenhouse. Tips on how to create an Oriental style garden with a pond and adjacent dry stream. Includes information on growing moss from a starter of natural moss. A guide to thorns, spines and prickles. How to manage your microclimates for better gardening. Plan a medieval garden for your own backyard. Features square beds separated by paths. How to safeguard plants through the winter. Garden architecture. A look at Victorian styles that have again become popular. SPECIAL SECTION on seashore gardening. (1) The impact of wind and the role of windbreaks. (2) Plant selection. (3) Gardening on a cliff. Seven shortcuts to a showcase garden. How to imitate a creative design seen at a garden show. Tips on how a good fall clean-up of a garden can help ward off insect and disease problems the next year. Gardening for the disabled. Two articles describe strategies that ease access. (1) A spiral garden design. (2) General suggestions on matching the design to the gardener's capacities. Shortcuts to great gardens. Simple design techniques that will help a garden look venerable within a season or two. Making a natural garden. Tips on planting a garden where the touch of the human hand is less evident. High-tech gardening. Using computer software products for landscape and flower garden design. Gardening challenges facing short-season gardeners discussed. Maine gardener describes alternatives. A snowy garden. Landscape features, early flowers and a few maintenance chores in winter noted. Perma-bed strip gardens for both flowers and vegetables. Sod-covered walking paths and strip gardens narrow enough to reach across make garden tasks easier and cleaner. The sounds of a garden. How to create a soothing environment by introducing running water, rustling foliage, birds and bumblebees. Community gardens. Tips on how to get a project started. Garden-related allergy and dermatology problems and how to minimize them. Preparing the garden for winter. Design landscape and garden with a camera. Making sketches with the help of photos and a copy machine before you start work. Turning a lawn area into a garden area without breaking your back. Using newspaper and mulch to kill and decompose the grass. Garden design. Part 1. How to prepare a site analysis of your property before landscaping or installing a garden. Drawing a map, identifying underground utilities, soil conditions, sunlight, shade, vegetation, etc. Tip on maintaining a gardening journal using 3x5 index cards. Garden design. Part 2. Creating a master plan for the garden. Determining general use areas for the yard, plus gardening and landscape questions you need to answer. Garden design. Part 3. How to create a base map, make preliminary designs, a final design and estimate costs. Tips for planting a garden in a flood zone. Easy does it. Design ideas, tools and techniques that take some of the hard work out of gardening. Neighborly gardening. Ways to share a garden. How to use techniques like succession planting, terracing and block gardening for a city garden. The instant plot. A plastic-coated garden for the clever, the late and the lazy. How to convert part of your lawn into a bountiful garden in 45 minutes. How home gardeners can get started with phenology (the use of natural indicators of conditions and events). Suggestions on the use of local wild plants as indicators of early plantings and two methods for using perennial bulbs as indicators. An action plan for gardeners. Things to do in the fall in vegetable, herb and perennial gardens, and for vines, trees and shrubs, annual flowers, roses, lawns and ground cover. Let there be light. A look at how to factor in the influence of sunlight when planning a garden or landscaping a yard. Includes tips on observing daily and seasonal light changes, and how to increase and decrease light levels. The garden beckons. Early spring garden chores described. Guidelines for creating an English country garden. Creating an easy-care garden. How to make your garden weed, feed and water itself. Recognizing trouble signs in the garden. A chart of garden problems, their probable cause, and the solution. Tips for creating a professional looking, easily maintained foundation garden. Perfect partners. A gardener's design guide to beautiful ornamental plant combinations. Basic information on how to get the most out of your garden. Includes information on location selection, soil preparation, planning and crop selection. Table shows common crops for spring and early summer, summer, and fall. You can take it with you. The secrets of packing and moving your garden plants to a new home. Suggestions on one method of garden record-keeping. Elements of design when gardening in small spaces. Elements of garden design looks at garden sculpture, ornamentation and the use of plants as sculptural features. The unbending gardener. Adaptions in garden plants and practices made to accommodate an aging back. Body measurements that can be used to get proper spacing between seeds, sets and seedlings. At the ocean's edge. Seaside gardening conditions (sun, salt and wind) and recommendations on the plants that are adapted to that environment. Advice on spacing between plants in the garden. Following the plot. How to create and keep a garden record using a day planner that combines calendar, journal, to-do lists and plant evaluations. Making the sun work for you. An explanation of photosynthesis and how it affects habits like hardening off seedlings. Thin plants for a healthy crop. Various methods for thinning described. Special section on gardening. How to create an ornamental garden in your yard. Such a garden can be a low-maintenance alternative to a front lawn. Plastic mulch and sand are key elements in controlling weeds. A guide to biodynamic/French intensive gardening. Tips on starting a community garden. Biodynamic/French intensive gardening is described. Includes a plant-spacing chart for both row and bed methods. Garden-planning mini-manual. Six garden plans and descriptions of how they are managed by winners of Mother Earth News' 1985 Garden Contest. Garden record keeping. Notes on the different types of information that are useful and some suggestions for record-keeping systems. Weatherproofing the garden. How to build a microclimate by planting shelterbelts, diverting run-off, terracing, using raised beds and a variety of protectors. Putting the garden to bed. A check list of 20 ideas for fall plot improvement. Painting with plants. With little more than seeds and a sketchbook, you can dabble in artful gardening. How to winterize gardens and garden tools. The nuts and bolts of starting and maintaining a gardening notebook. Niche gardening. How to identify and precision-plant the microclimates of your site. Walking the rows. How to develop a routine of daily garden visits, looking for clues to problems. The frugal gardener. Advice on tool acquisition, free fertilizers, and cheaper seeds. An oriental oasis. Suggestions for laying out an oriental garden in your back yard. The 60-minute garden, a five-part system for increasing yields in small spaces. Includes use of boxed raised beds, vertical trellises, growing tunnels, soil management and a drip watering and fertilizing system. Building an old fashioned garden. Description of the complete renovation of a 50x143-ft. lot in Westerville, Ohio. Drawing of backyard brick and stone work and plantings, and a list of plants included. How to plan and plant an Elizabethan knot garden. Front gardens in the city. A look at location factors, trees and shrubs, and lawns. Guiding principles of post-Victorian landscape and gardens. Includes lists of plants that were common choices. Quick-and-dirty garden. How to get a colorful garden of annuals, vegetables and herbs started in a short time without impacting long-range landscaping plans. How to choose a garden plan appropriate to a house's period. How to apply microclimatology in home gardens. A description of how exposure, the sun-shade ratio. mositure and soil factors can be manipulated by the home gardener to meet requirements of plants that would otherwise be ungrowable in your yard. Tips on how to protect early spring crops from frost. Six articles on farming and gardening steep hillsides. Includes instructions on how to terrace using 2x10s or railroad ties, how to build a railroad tie garden, and how to make rock terraces. Also covers how to garden on a hillside without terraces and how to use terrace and contour farming to stop erosion. Concluding article summerizes the views of experts expressed at the 1976 International Hill Land Symposium. A look at bed planting for a home garden. Includes information on garden layout, pest control and succession planting. A look at Bio-Dynamic/French intensive gardening. This method requires only 1/3 to 1/7 as much water as commercial agriculture. Tips on how to garden during adverse weather conditions. Includes the use of portable sun reflectors for cool spells, how to shade during hot, dry spells, and how to trench a garden to deal with either drought or waterlog. A look at short-row gardening, rows 3 to 6 ft. long. In-the-city gardening. Tips for small backyard gardens. A guide to starting a city community garden project. A look at a combination chicken yard and garden. Area of 50x75-ft. is divided by a fence. Chickens range on one side while garden grows and after harvest they are switched to the other side. Suggestions on planting an early garden successfully. Exercises to get you in shape for gardening. Five year-round garden plans. Success with the "impossible" garden. How a couple near the southern Oregon coast compensated for poor conditions by using a variety of techniques. Frost-proofing your garden. Ways to protect plants from early and late frosts. Eight common gardening errors and how to avoid them. Bounty from a city lot. Tricks for creating a backyard garden "paradise" on a small city lot. Gardening on problem sites. Preventing cold roots, pan gardening, coping with shade on a north slope, and gardening at high altitudes. Stretch your way to gardening fitness. Simple exercises to prepare your muscles for garden work. Lessons from first-year gardeners. Advice on overcoming limited space, poor soil and tough climates. Exercises to get the gardener in shape. Tips on gardening after a heart attack. Tips on garden planning and planting. How to turn your lawn into a garden. Edible landscaping. Plans for growing food and ornamental plants together. Ideas for several sizes of garden are furnished. High-altitude gardening. Suggestions on improving the soil, frost protection and crop selection. Suggestions on adapting a garden and gardening techniques for a disabled person. Planting with nature. How to develop a gardening calendar based on the blooming times of wild and domestic flowers and the migrating and breeding activities of birds and wildlife. Tips on protecting gardens from the wind. A gardener's vacation plan. How you can get away during the growing season without returning to parched soil and huge weeds. Suggestions for how people with allergies to dust, pollen or molds can still garden. Tips on gardening in Florida for newcomers to the state. Tips on organizing a record of seed viability, variety performance, dates of planting, bloom and harvest. How to create a first garden bed at a new homesite. Guide to starting a fall garden. Suggests plants and cultivating techniques. Ten time-saving tips for the new gardener. Gardening in Alaska. Includes a list of best vegetable and landscape plant choices. Catalog primer. Tips for beginning gardeners on how to sort through the information in a seed catalog. Tip on planting in soggy soil. Preventive gardening. Six basic steps to prevent garden problems. An in-depth look at gardening in the Deep South. First in a series about gardening in special geographic regions. Includes diagrams that show how to control weeds, soil diseases and nematodes using solarization. List of the best perennials for the South. Two-page chart of common southern insect pests and organic remedies for each. Chart of planting and harvest dates for nine combinations of vegetables that do well in the south using succession planting and multiple cropping in the home garden. The Pacific Northwest. Second in a series about gardening in special geographic regions. Gardening guide covers growing vegetables, winter crops, ornamentals, fruit, pest controls, etc. The Southwest. Third in a series about gardening in special geographic regions. Looks at soil, vegetables, watering, ornamentals, landscaping, shrubs, trees, pest controls, etc. How to clean up a garden and prepare it for the next season. Includes mulching, pruning and plant-protection techniques. Tip describes how to prepare garden beds for early spring planting. How to be a smart plant shopper. Thirteen tips when visiting your local nursery. Five who garden in "impossible" locations describe how they do it. (1) Northern New York's Adirondack Mountains. (2) Juneau, Alaska. (3) The Texas hill country. (4) Next to a forest preserve in Illinois. (5) At 8,500 feet in the Colorado Rockies. How to remove sod and turn a small area of lawn into a garden bed. Gardening secrets from a winner of blue ribbons. Hints on competing in a county fair. Predicting the first frost. Clues to help you determine when a cold snap will actually nip your garden. How to protect your plants and shrubs against winter. Year-round gardens. A combination of form and function that creates a garden for all seasons. Suggestions on pathways, plant materials with seasonal interest and garden design. Smart technologies for the outdoors. How to create beautiful, low-maintenance yardscapes using new electronic and horticultural technologies. Beginning a new series of articles. Attic upgrades. Design ideas for finishing an attic. Includes construction tips on insulating a cathedral ceiling, reinforcing an attic floor, increasing headroom, etc. Nine inexpensive ideas to improve the beauty and ease of maintenance of your yard. A look at a backyard city garden that combines vegetables, flowers, evergreens and a paved court. House, garden and court are all contained on a lot 40x107-ft. A look at a garden in Pasadena, California. Plants were chosen to survive on rainfall alone. How to use a slide projector and slides of your house and yard to help plan your garden or landscaping. A look at a private garden created on a 50-foot city lot. How to save your back and still work in the garden. Tips on digging, lifting, tools, etc. Tips on displaying art in the garden. Restoring a warm-climate garden after a period of freezing weather which causes damage. Five stumbling blocks for first time gardeners and what to do about them. Discusses controlling costs, weeds, soil improvement, irrigation, plant selection and sites. Secrets of the garden masters. Five gardeners reveal their secrets for putting plants together in artful ways. No time to garden? Tips on low-maintenance care from two California gardeners. Winterizing your yard. How to protect lawn and plants from the weather and animals over the winter. | |||||||||
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