Best Tropical Climate Gardening

This new edition is fully revised to include the latest developments and discoveries in the carnivorous plant world, making it the most accurate and up to date book of its kind. Fully revised with the latest developments in the carnivorous plant world, this new edition includes: • All the basics—from watering and feeding to modern advances in artificial lighting, soil, and fertilizers. "If you're a carnivorous plant aficionado, you will love the book. If you're new to these plants, you too will become hooked."

The Florida Getting Started Garden Guide features region-specific advice on planting, growing, and caring for more than 150 of Florida’s top ornamental and native plants. * More than 175 plant recommendations—chosen just for Florida gardeners for their ease of growing, maintenance, and the beauty they offer. * Every plant type—from flowers and tropicals to trees and shrubs, and everything in-between. * Design tips to help you add color and beauty to your garden. * Advice on planting, growing, and care (including pest control). * A large color photograph of each plant so you can take this book with you when you shop! Before you buy another plant and cross your fingers hoping that it works in your garden, get your copy of Florida Getting Started Garden Guide .

A comprehensive guide to fruit-bearing plants that thrive in the Florida environment. Charles Boning is a naturalist, illustrator, and attorney, who has authored numerous books for the national education market.

Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook , anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Coleman’s own farm. For those who are ready to graduate beyond coffee-can retail, the incomparable Eliot Coleman is back with THE WINTER HARVEST HANDBOOK: Year-Round Vegetable Production Using Deep-Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses (Chelsea Green, paper, $29.95). Coleman's opus is as much a call to action for town planners to embrace local farms as it is a bible for small farmers. I have been a devotee of Eliot's for years, fully agreeing with his methods for growing in winter, spring, summer, and fall, tasty, nutritious produce with a minimum consumption of fossil fuels. I suspect that's because he writes about not just gardening but about everything that connects to good food and pleasure; a Renaissance man for a new generation, he'll quote Goethe in the same breath as Ghandi, and as a result, you'll dig, weed, eat, think, and live more fully." In chapters covering everything from The Yearly Schedule and Greenhouse Design to Weed Control and Marketing, Coleman tracks his own constant search for perfection, a quality that has led more than one young farmer to exclaim 'I'd follow him anywhere.'. Based on decades of on-farm research, this book is packed with useful ideas, tips and practices that anyone can use in pursuing the increasingly vital dream of local, organic food production using a minimum of precious resources. This is the big question facing the local food movement, and Eliot Coleman, one of America's most innovative farmers, has come up with excellent answers.

In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical considerations: concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain your own forest garden. In other words, a forest garden is an edible ecosystem, a consciously designed community of mutually beneficial plants and animals intended for human food production. Until Mycelium Running--another amazingly important and well-done book--appeared, we were considering doing the same this month for the second volume of Edible Forest Gardens , which is much thicker (by more than 270 pages!). The shorter length of this review certainly does not reflect the relative importance of the volumes--we recommend that anyone interested in experimenting with temperate-zone "gardening in the image of the forest" should study both. Understanding that knowledge on "nest practices" for temperate-zone forest gardening needs to be established experimentally can be exciting for those willing and able to adopt the scientific attitude: no matter how they turn out, the results of an experiment, performed appropriately (meaning especially that adequate control treatments are provided), are never "bad." Jacke and Toensmeier offer a radical vision for stepping out of the conceptual continuum of conventional agriculture and organic farming. Volume one lays out the "Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture," and it also includes a very useful analysis of existing forest gardens (one only 50 by 90 feet) and a tantalizing 30-page appendix of "top 100" species. They rely on external inputs of energy, nutrients, insect and disease controls, and water and are based primarily on annual plants. Containers of edible perennials and annuals on a rooftop are not most farmers' idea of agriculture, but I grow nearly 20 percent of the authors' top 100 species and intend to look for ways to take this small start much further. A must-have set of books for anyone serious about polyculture, integrated organic garden and landscape design, permaculture in the temperate zones and, of course, food forests.

Succulents are hot. "In her new book, Succulents Simplified:Growing, Designing, and Crafting with 100 Easy-Care Varieties , Baldwin even tells of a Jade plant that has lasted for more than two decades in her garden with various stages of neglect! "Anyone who knows Debra Lee Baldwin is aware of her extraordinary prowess as an author, writer, photographer, and artist...her book, Succulents Simplified , is a work of art." From quick and easy succulent rosettes for bouquets, to teeny tiny mint-tin gardens, to succulent-topped pumpkins there's a project in this book for even the most craft-challenged."

Includes recipes for sprout breads, cookies, crackers, soups, pizza, bagels, dressings, dips, spreads, sautes, nondairy milks, and ice-creams. Hundreds Of Healthy Recipes All Prepared From Sprouted Seeds. How to Dehydrate Foods. Charts on Nutrition, Sprouting, & Food Drying. The Recipes: All Dairyless, All Flourless, All Vegetarian Zucchini Chips, Cashew Yoghurt, Almond Milk, Sprout Breads, Bagels, & Cookies, Dairyless Vanilla Ice Cream, Basil Tahini Dressing, Salt Substitutes, Dehydrated Banana Chips, Whole Meal Super Salads, Non-alcoholic Rejuvelac Wine, Natural Sodas, Healthy Halvah, Sunflower Seed Cheese, Pizza without Sin and much more.