Spring Gardening | Spokane County Library District

1) How to create a butterfly garden: bringing the beauty of butterflies into your world

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"Butterfly gardening is the practice of attracting beautiful butterflies to your garden by growing common plants and flowers that they use for food and nectar. This fun and wonderfully simple activity will bring color, light, and beauty to your garden and home. 'How to Create a Butterfly Garden' is a complete, step-by-step guide to gardening for butterflies. This guide will teach you everything you need to get started--whether you're a suburban resident,...

2) The good garden: how to nurture pollinators, soil, native wildlife, and healthy food--all in your own backyard

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McLaughlin, Chris

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"What makes a garden good? For Chris McLaughlin, it's about growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies possible, but it's also about giving back. How can your little patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, sequester carbon, and nurture native plants?"--

3) The vegetable garden problem solver handbook: identify and manage diseases and other common problems on edible plants

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Mulvihill, Susan

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"Ask any gardener and they'll tell you keeping vegetable plants healthy and productive is no easy task. The Vegetable garden problem solver handbook contains all-natural answers to common problems plaguing your vegetable garden, including plant diseases, disorders, animal pests, and weather woes." -- Back cover.

4) Four-season food gardening: how to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs year-round

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Llana, Misilla dela

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Four-Season Food Gardening hands you all the know-how you need to make growing food 365 days a year your new superpower! Unlike most other vegetable gardening books on the market, this one approaches the subject through the lens of what you can grow during each of the four seasons, even if you live in a cold climate. Using season-extension techniques, such as cold frames, mini hoop houses, and thick mulches, combined with a thoughtful mixture of annual...

5) The month-by-month gardening guide: daily advice for growing flowers, vegetables, herbs & houseplants

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Böhmig, Franz

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"This is a compendium of practical advice for the home gardener, arranged by month. The individual bits of advice for each month are arranged as follows: general advice; advice for the vegetable garden (including herbs); and advice for ornamental plants (further subdivided into the outdoor garden, terrace and balcony, and windowsill and houseplants). There is also a massive section of charts at the back of the book. The advice is applicable to U.S....

6) The modern gardener: [a practical guide to houseplants, herbs & container gardening]

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Patel, Sonja

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The Modern Gardener will help you give your home a chic, modern aesthetic with the right plants--indoors and out. With sections devoted to choosing the right plants, budgeting, and making the best use of your available space, you'll be able to transform your home into a sanctuary for the plants that will give it an appealing vibe. Chapters on tending to all sorts of plants--including annuals, perennials, herbs, flowers, and edibles--make this a handy...

7) Tiny space gardening: growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs in small outdoor spaces (with recipes)

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Pennington, Amy

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"This guide shows readers how to successfully grow edibles--including vegetables, herbs, and fruits--in urban spaces, such as a balcony or back patio. The book includes approximately 30 simple recipes, including starters, sides, mains, and desserts"--

8) Landscaping

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Chace, Teri Dunn

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"As families spend more time at home, they're expanding their living space to their yards, decks, and patios. When you're ready to upgrade the look of your landscape, Landscaping For Dummies offers advice on installing fences and walkways, choosing hardy plants and trees, and enhancing natural habitats for the critters and creatures lurking in your neighborhood. You'll find out how to make your backyard a relaxing retreat space and discover the enjoyment...

9) Grow more food: a vegetable gardener's guide to getting the biggest harvest possible from a space of any size

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McCrate, Colin

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"How to plan your garden carefully, maximize production in every bed, get the most out of every plant, scale up systems to maximize efficiency, and expand the harvest season with succession planting, intercropping, and season extension."--

10) The gardener's palette: creating colour harmony in the garden

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Thompson, Jo

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"The Gardener's Palette, published in partnership with [the Royal Horticultural Society], shares an entirely new way for home gardeners to confidently incorporate colour at home. Award-winning garden designer Jo Thompson curates 100 evocative and fresh palettes, pairs them with beautiful images of professionally designed gardens, and breaks them down with charts showing the exact plants used. She also provides full growing specifications for every...

11) Botany for gardeners: an introduction to the science of plants

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Capon, Brian

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What happens inside a seed after it is planted? How are plants structured? How do plants reproduce? The answers to these and other questions about complex plant processes can be found in the bestselling Botany for Gardeners. This updated edition addresses scientific advances, changes in nomenclature and taxonomy, and more. Botany for Gardeners shares accessible information about how plants are organized, how they have adapted to nearly all environments...