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THOUGHTFUL GARDENING
ADVICE FROM A NATIONAL TRUST HEAD GARDENER |
| By: |
Ed Ikin |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£14.99 |
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£10.04 |
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£4.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1905400942 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781905400942 |
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| Publisher: |
ANOVA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
19 July, 2010 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
This is a thoughtful and practical book on how to garden in harmony with nature, written by a leading National Trust gardener. Advice covers: making perfect compost, surviving droughts and downpours with low-watering regimes, increasing drought resistance in plants, choosing the right plant for your conditions, using beneficial insects to control pests, alternatives to pesticides and fungicides, and gardening by the moon. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a thoughtful and practical book on how to garden in harmony with nature. A leading National Trust gardener reveals the techniques that work at in grand gardens are just as applicable for all gardeners, whether you have a small yard, a veg patch or several acres. His advice covers: how to make a plant healthy from organic spraying with milk, introducing friendly fungi to good nutrition for your plants; making perfect compost, including hot composting techniques, the ultimate leaf mould, bracken compost and potash, and composting food waste; surviving droughts and downpours with low-watering regimes, increasing drought resistance in plants, choosing the right plant for your conditions, and keeping plants healthy in water-logged soil; making your glasshouse green with water-collection systems, using beneficial insects to control pests, alternatives to pesticides and fungicides, sterilizing without bleach, peat-free composts and alternatives to plastic; and, gardening by the moon with simple and scientific experiments in biodynamic gardening. |
| Illustrations: |
60 illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
National Trust Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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