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The ever-inventive Joey Green returns with countless new ways to utilize products you'll find around your house-- saving yourself a trip (or trips!) to the garden center. Joey Green's Gardening Magic is a treasure trove of inexpensive, quirky tips, like how to: * Boost a compost pile with Coca-Cola® * Control Japanese beetles with Wesson® Corn Oil * Fertilize a lawn with Maxwell House® Coffee * Protect tomato seedlings with Dixie® Cups * Lubricate a lawn mower with Jif® Peanut Butter * Deter deer with Bounce® * Feed your flowers with Lipton® Tea Bags And much, much more! * Control aphids with Tabasco® Sauce * Waste weeds with Heinz® White Vinegar * Germinate seeds with Bounty® Paper Towels * Make a scarecrow with Glad® Trash Bags

A practical guide to growing abundant, organic vegetables and herbs, the 10th Anniversary Edition expands the original with new crops, extended season tips, and fresh photography for home gardeners across North America.

A practical guide for starting an organic vegetable farm, covering soil management, crop planning, equipment, organic fertilizers, pest control, and farm economics, designed for both new and experienced growers.

1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips, edited by Roger Yepsen 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.

A practical guide to growing a high‑yield, low‑maintenance garden using the square‑foot system, ideal for beginners, small‑lot and busy growers.