Beginner gardening step by step A visual guide to yard and garden basics
Book - 2019
- Subjects
- Genres
- Handbooks and manuals
- Published
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New York, New York,
DK Publishing
2019.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- "This book is adapted from the following titles in the previously published RHS Simple step series: Planting a small garden / Phil Clayton ; Plants for shade / Andrew Mikolajski ; Family garden / Lia Leendertz ; Easy-care garden / Jenny Hendy ; Containers for patios / Richard Rosenfeld ; Climbing plants / Charles Chesshire ; Lawns and ground / Simon Akeroyd ; Bamboos and grasses / Jon Ardle ; Gardening step by step / Phil Clayton, Jenny Hendy, Colin Crosbie, Jo Whittingham ; Easy pruning / Colin Crosbie ; Vegetables and fruits in pots / Jo Whittingham ; Vegetables in a small garden / Jo Whittingham ; Herbs / William Denne." -- page [256].
Includes index. - Physical Description
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781465477002
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Which way does your garden face?
- Know your soil
- Improving your soil
- Choosing the right potting soil
- Choosing healthy plants
- Flowers & Foliage
- Sowing seeds outdoors
- Sowing seeds indoors
- Growing plants that last
- Growing sunflowers
- Preparing pots for planting
- Plant up a colorful container
- Make a spring hanging basket
- Planting a shady window box
- Planting bulbs in a pot
- Making a border
- Making raised beds and edges
- Choosing flowers and foliage for spring containers
- Choosing flowers and foliage for summer containers
- Lawns
- Laying sod
- Sowing grass seed
- How to make a lawn edging
- Growing bulbs m grass
- Caring for your lawn
- Climbers
- Planting a climber
- Potting up climbers
- Planting an obelisk
- Create a tower of climbers
- Make an ivy topiary ball
- Build a rose arch
- Pruning a rose arch
- Pruning a rose on a wall
- Pruning wisteria
- Cutting back ivy
- Raise new plants by layering
- Choosing climbers for spring interest
- Choosing climbers for summer interest
- Shrubs
- Planting a shrub
- Planting a shrub in a pot
- Planting a bare-root rose
- Pruning an early summer-flowering shrub
- Lightly pruning shrubs
- Pruning a shrub rose
- Pruning hydrangea
- Pruning lavender
- Pruning for winter stems
- Planting a hedge
- Trimming a hedge
- Making a topiary cone
- Repotting a shrub
- Choosing shrubs for year-round interest
- Choosing shrubs for autumn interest
- Grasses
- Planting grasses in the ground
- Caring for grasses
- Cutting back grasses
- Dividing grasses
- Choosing grasses
- Small Trees
- Planting a tree
- Removing a branch
- Moving a tree or shrub
- Choosing trees for small gardens
- Vegetables
- Growing seeds in trays
- Sowing seeds in small pots
- Growing vegetables from plug plants
- Raising lettuces on a windowsill
- Growing tomatoes
- Growing climbing beans
- Growing root crops
- Growing early potatoes
- Growing potatoes in a trash can
- Herbs
- Growing herbs from seed
- Planting an herb garden
- Planting an herb hanging basket
- Making a lavender hedge
- Growing herbs from cuttings
- Dividing herbs
- Fruit
- Planting a basket of strawberries
- Planting an apple tree in a pot
- Pruning an apple tree
- Soft fruit in small spaces
- Tree fruit in small spaces
- Practicalities
- Watering plants
- Making your own compost
- How and when to prune
- Caring for your tools
- Troubleshooting weeds
- Dealing with pests
- Preventing diseases
- Know your garden friends
- Index
- Acknowledgments