Homegrown Harvest A Season-by-Season Guide to a Sustainable Kitchen Garden (Royal HorticulturalSociety Grow Your Own) by AmericanHorticulturalSociety, Rita Pelczar Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Mitchell Beazley ISBN-13: 978-1-84533-560-1, ISBN: 1-84533-560-0
"Written by the American Horticultural Society's foremost fruit, vegetable and herb experts, Homegrown Harvest provides lifestyle-changing advice that gardeners need for growing a year-round supply of healthy edible crops for their table. Specific local and regional advice enables gardeners to decide how and what to grow wherever they live in North America.The book starts with planning what to grow, then how to grow it- whether in an al ..."
"A comprehensive guide to gardening in the Northwest -- includes Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Presenting a new way to think about gardening, the American Horticultural Society's "smart gardening" program teaches gardeners how to their own preferences and time availability, assess the possibilities of a location, and then create a garden th ..."
" The definitive guide to the best gardening techniques from pruning to propagation and planting to harvesting.This step-by-step guide to essential gardening practice is a must-have reference showing modern methods to a new generation of gardeners. Compiled by leading specialists in every area of gardening, the book contains a vast amount of expert information clearly demonstrating the tried-and-tested techniques honed by the world's lea ..."
"The AHS Encyclopaedia of Gardening Techniques is the definitive guide explaining all the essential techniques you are ever likely to need, no matter where in North America you live. It reflects modern best-practice gardening at the American Horticultural Society, the leading US gardening authority. All techniques are shown clearly and simply with step-by-step instructions for every gardener to follow. It contains more than 2,000 clear a ..."
"From preliminary design to everyday maintenance, the American Horticultural Society Gardening Manual covers every gardening topic under the sun. An equal mix of inspirational ideas and practical suggestions makes this a book to read in every season, whether your garden is sleeping under feet of snow or everything is ripe for picking. Each page is covered with the clear, close-up photographs and simple explanations that the Dorling Kind ..."
"A season guide to gardening provides hundreds of tips and plant profiles on the best plants for one's garden during each season of the year, in a handbook that features more than one thousand full-color illustrations, detailed plant descriptions with horticultural information, garden design advice, and more. 20,000 first printing."
"Fully updated and revised, AHS Great Plant Guide covers more than 1,000 plants and discusses various plant species, growth behaviors and locations, ornamental features, and optimal plant care.The AHS Great Plant Guide is designed to help you choose plants in two different ways. In the A-Z of Plants, over 1,000 plants have full entries and are illustrated with photographs. This is the section to consult to find details about a plant. It ..."
""Homegrown Harvest "provides the life-changing advice that gardeners need to grow a year-round supply of healthy fruit and vegetables for their table. The book starts with planning what to grow and where to grow it, whether that's an allotment, a series of containers, raised bed or vegetable patch, then how to get the best from your soil, and how to get started. Next, in season by season chapters, the book takes the reader from sowing t ..."
"Targeting gardeners pressed for time, first-time homeowners confronted by a yard without any idea of what to do with it, and those with certified brown thumbs, Pruning and Training shows gardeners everything they need to know -- from pruning an apple tree to clipping a hedge."
"Introducing an artificial method of vegetative reproduction by exploiting plants' regenerative abilities, Plants from Cuttings begins with an overview of the technique and an explanation of regeneration, followed by a how-to for each type of cutting, and, finally, an A-Z of the plants that can be grown in this manner."
"The illustrated practical handbook to identifying and solving all your garden problems. Pippa Greenwood, renowned gardening expert, comes to the rescue of gardeners everywhere. Garden Problem Solver covers every aspect of gardening -- from lawns, borders, patios, hedges, ponds, vegetable plots, plant care, and pests and diseases, to how to correct garden design disasters. With hundreds of illustrations, this easy-to-use guide shows you ..."
"The AHS Great Plant Guide is designed to help you choose plants in two different ways. In the A-Z of Plants, over 1,000 plants have full entries and are illustrated with photographs. This is the section to consult to find details about a plant. It will tell you what type of plant it is, how it grows, what its ornamental features are, where it grows and looks best, and how to care for it. For quick reference, symbols summarize its main r ..."