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Gardeners A-Z GTG Organic Food  Item#: 9781580173704
A wealth of gardening information is presented in an accessible format showing that creating a healthy soil and working with the earth's natural systems are the foundation of a productive, sustainable, and satisfying garden.
Our Price: $22.95
Melons for Passionate Grower  Item#: 9781579652135
Melons for the Passionate Grower by Amy Goldman
Our Price: $25.00
Garden Primer  Item#: 9780894803161
comprehensive gardening reference jam-packed with useful information, advice, tips, and quirky wisdom. Barbara Damrosch, and "old-fashioned dirt gardener,"
Our Price: $17.95
Complete Squash  Item#: 9781579652517
learn how to appreciate all the different types of squash, pumpkins and gourds that are featured but also how to grow, hand pollinate and save seed for these beauties.
Our Price: $40.00
Perennial Gardeners Design Primer  Item#: 9781580175432
From getting started and selecting your perennials to reworking an old garden this book covers more than you need to plant a beautiful garden. Growing advice for more than 475 reliable perennials.
Our Price: $24.95
Joy of Gardening  Item#: 9780882663197
Garden Way's Joy of Gardening by Dick Raymond. This is a wonderful journey into the many advantages of wide row planting, a technique that can double your harvest and reduce weed pressure.
Our Price: $24.95
Sunflower Houses  Item#: 9780761123865
Sunflower Houses. Inspirational for children and their grown-ups. Filled with interesting information and wonderful drawings and watercolors.
Our Price: $13.95
Buffalo Bird Womans Garden  Item#: 9780873512190
traditional methods and tools that Hidatsa women used to raise huge crops of corn, beans, squash and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River
Our Price: $11.95
Flower Gardeners Bible  Item#: 9781580174626
Learn how to achieve season-long color; plan and design your garden before you plant; combine annuals, perennials, bulbs, and flowering vines and shrubs; create a more bountiful flower garden to enjoy throughout the season.
Our Price: $27.50
Flower Farmer  Item#: 9780930031947
The Flower Farmer is your best, most comprehensive guide containing professional advice. Includes an extensive index that features 95 recommended flower plants with specific growing information
Our Price: $29.95
Growing Great Garlic  Item#: 9780963085016
Growing Great Garlic
Our Price: $16.95
Gardeners Guide To Plant Diseases  Item#: 9780882662749
Become a skilled doctor of plant care by recognizing problems before it's too late, just nip those problems in the bud.
Our Price: $14.95
Growing Profits  Item#: 9780965456777
Growing Profits: How to Start and Run a Nursery Business
Our Price: $17.95
Trowel & Error  Item#: 9780761126324
Born of necessity and ingenuity and honed through years of "trowel and error" these helpful hints include environmentally friendly ammunition against weeds and pests, shortcuts for cultivation and propagation, and clever uses for household items
Our Price: $13.95
Container Water Gardens  Item#: 9781580170802
you can create low-maintenance water features for small yards, decks, balconies-- even indoors! With more than 20 inspiring projects for both still and moving water gardens, you're sure to find one to fit your setting and style.
Our Price: $22.95
Backyard Market Gardening  Item#: 9780962464805
Don't miss out on the chance of a lifetime, make money while enjoying the great outdoors in your own Backyard Market Garden. This book is the Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow!
Our Price: $19.95
How To Build Paths, Steps & Footbridges  Item#: 9781580174879
The fundamentals of planning, designing, and constructing creative walkways in your home landscape. This book guides you through the building process and explains how to adapt projects to suit your particular needs and aesthetic preferences.
Our Price: $19.95
Permaculture  Item#: 9780646418445
Permaculture by David Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture Concept.
Our Price: $30.00
Theme Gardens, Rev  Item#: 9780761121374
Theme Gardens, Inspired Plans & Practical Advice by Barbara Damrosch
Our Price: $19.95
Burpee Complete Gardener  Item#: 9780028603780
Learn techniques that keep maintenance tasks to a minimum. Descriptions and photos on a host of succulent veggies, hybrid to heirloom, common to exotic.
Our Price: $29.95
Organic Gardening for 21st Century  Item#: 9780762102969
Reader's Digest Organic Gardening for the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers by John Fedor. A comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself organic gardening starting with the basics.
Our Price: $30.00
Knotts Handbook for Vegetable Growers, 5th Ed.  Item#: 9780471738282
Knott's Handbook for Vegetable Growers is a must for anyone that is planning a garden for profit or for personal use. You'll use it as a reference book for years to come.
Our Price: $75.00
Winter-Harvest Manual  Item#: WHM
Winter-Harvest Manual: Farming the Back Side of the Calendar by Eliot Coleman. Commercial greenhouse production of fresh vegetables in cold-winter climates without supplementary heat.
Our Price: $17.00
Four-Season Harvest  Item#: 9781890132279
enjoy eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer,
Our Price: $24.95
Cold-Climate Gardening  Item#: 9780882664415
Not just for those who live in the snow belt, this book will also be useful to those who garden in microclimates (such as deep valleys or hillsides) or for those who want to extend their gardening season in any climate.
Our Price: $16.95
Beautiful by Design  Item#: 9781402714092
Find out how to choose a theme, make a splash with color, add garden art, install effective architectural pieces and furnishings, and make a big impact with just a little input.
Our Price: $24.95
Private Lives of Garden Birds  Item#: 9781580174701
Private Lives of Garden Birds is the classic introduction to the most intimate, most engaging secrets of eleven common backyard birds - ones most often seen in gardens, yards, and parks
Our Price: $18.95
Burpee: Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener (Organic)  Item#: 9780028620053
xpert advice on growing them successfully from planting to harvest. Learn techniques that keep maintenance tasks to a minimum.
Our Price: $34.95
Wildlife-Friendly Plants  Item#: 9781552979532
For too long wildlife gardening books have tended to focus on those gardening in rural areas with sufficient space to plant large trees and hedges. If, like many new gardeners, you have a small space and still want to attract beneficial wildlife.
Our Price: $19.95
Garden Retreats  Item#: 9781580171496
Garden Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide. Enjoy the natural beauty of the outdoors from your own garden retreat.
Our Price: $19.95
Garden Ornament  Item#: 9780761112020
Garden Ornament: How to Decorate the Garden with Individual Style. Using the power of ornament to perfect nature's beauty.
Our Price: $22.95
Native American Gardening  Item#: 9781555911485
Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
Our Price: $16.95
Forest Gardening  Item#: 9780930031848
ased on the model of a healthy natural woodland, a forest garden incorporates a wide variety of useful plants, including fruit and nut trees, perennial herbs, and vegetables.
Our Price: $25.00
Waterscaping  Item#: 9780882666068
oothing sounds, magnificent reflections, interesting and unusual plants: water in the garden is captivating. Now, whether you are installing a commercially produced pond, own property with an existing stream or pond.
Our Price: $18.95
Garden Stone  Item#: 9781580174060
Garden Stone: Creative Ideas, Practical Projects, and Inspiration for Purely Decorative Uses Barbara Pleasant Photogrraphs by Dency Kane
Our Price: $29.95
Small Buildings Small Gardens  Item#: 9781586857059
Variety is what engages visitors to a garden, and once you understand that garden design gathers around making places for people, then you begin to find just the right places for plants that will engage those people.
Our Price: $29.95
Way We Garden Now  Item#: 9780307351357
Whether you have a half acre of land in the country or a tiny patch of grass in the city, whether you're an experienced digger or you've never held a trowel here are forty-one versatile projects that will make anyone into a proud gardener.
Our Price: $29.95
Garden Notes from Muddy Creek  Item#: 9780977637201
he best times and techniques to plant, weed, and prune flowers and shrubs; smart ways to control pests; strategies for preventing plant disease.
Our Price: $24.95
Greenhouse Gardener  Item#: 9780711224353
Greenhouse Gardener by Anne Swithinbank tells us that in the warmth and protection of a greenhouse (with just enough heating to exclude frost, or even unheated), you can raise flowering plants for the garden, bedding plants, dazzling cannas and dahli
Our Price: $35.00
Four Seasons CD/Book  Item#: 9783937406718
The concertos were first published in 1725 as part of a set of twelve. The first four concertos were each named after a season. Each one is in three movements, with a slow movement between two faster ones.
Our Price: $16.79
Beginning Hydroponics  Item#: 9780894717413
While hydroponic gardening has been proven both reliable and effective, and has received much attention in some quarters, it is still an unfamiliar practice to many gardeners.
Our Price: $9.95
Ecology for Gardeners  Item#: 9780881926118
It becomes clear that gardens, whether a group of potted plants on a patio, a few beds carved out of a lawn, or extensive planting over several acres, are indeed connected to the natural world in endless and important ways
Our Price: $29.95
Botany of Desire  Item#: 9780375760396
Botany of Desire. Michael Pollan masterfully links four fundamental human desires with the plants that satisfy them.
Our Price: $13.95
Stonescaping  Item#: 9780882667553
Stonescaping, a guide to using stone in your garden, includes chapters on building walls, paths, terraces, stone-rimmed ponds, rockeries, and troughs provide step-by-step instructions for creating these and other design features using basic hand tool
Our Price: $18.95
Mulch It!  Item#: 9781580173162
Mulch It! by Stu Campbell A practical guide to using mulch in the garden and landscape.
Our Price: $12.95
$64 Tomato  Item#: 9781565125575
How one man nearly lost his sanity, spent a fortune and endured an existential crisis in quest for the perfect garden.
Our Price: $13.95
All New Square Foot Gardening  Item#: 9781591862024
All New Square Foot Gardening is the revolutionary way to grow more in less space. See for yourself why gardeners everywhere have joined the revolution.
Our Price: $19.99
New Complete Guide To Beekeeping  Item#: 9780881503159
New Complete Guide To Beekeeping by Roger A. Morse will tell you all you need to know to start and maintain a healthy bee colony.
Our Price: $17.95
Perennial Vegetables  Item#: 9781931498401
Author, Eric Toensmeier, explains how to raise, tend, harvest, and cook with plants that yield great crops and culinary satisfaction.
Our Price: $35.00
Vines and Wines DVD  Item#: PVPD-3004
A Complete Video Guide to Growing Grapes & Starting a Winery
Our Price: $24.95
Organic Gardner HB Natural Insect & Disease Control  Item#: 9780875967530
Complete directions on how, when and where to use preventive methods, insect traps and barriers, biocontrols, homemade remedies, botanical insecticidesand more.
Our Price: $21.95
Gardeners A-Z Guide To Growing Flowers  Item#: 9781580175173
The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom. Learn how to germinate-indoors or outdoor. Sowing, transplanting & care guidelines for 600 plants from start to blossom. Get precise information on cold hardiness and heat tolerance.
Our Price: $24.95
Timber Pocket Guide to Shade Perennials  Item#: 9780881927092
In Pocket Guide to Shade Perennials author W. George Schmid answers many questions about how to turn that bare shady patch in your landscape into a beautiful garden?
Our Price: $19.95
Seeds: Definitive Guide to Growing, History & Lore  Item#: 9780881926828
Seeds, the Definitive Guide to Growing, History & Lore. Blending science and hands-on experience, Seeds, is the rare gardening book that is as useful as it is fascinating to read.
Our Price: $17.95
Timber Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses  Item#: 9780881926538
Written by author, Rick Darke, Ornamental Grasses is based on his best-selling color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses. Ornamental Grasses offers general approaches, techniques and recommendations to help gardeners get the most from the grasses.
Our Price: $19.95
Truth About Garden Remedies  Item#: 9780881927481
Horticulturist Jeff Gillman assesses new and historic advice and reveals the how and why -- and sometimes the why not. How about buttermilk? Or music, classical or rock? And how about chasing insects with hot sauce and stopping slugs with eggshell
Our Price: $19.95
Down & Dirty  Item#: 9781580176415
real projects for you and your family to enjoy completing also recipes for all kinds of yummy dishes and drinks.
Our Price: $16.95
Drawing & Painting Plants  Item#: 9780881928419
The author, Christina Brodie, takes you on a journey through her holistic approach to botanical art. At the end of the journey you too will be drawing and painting plants with remarkable and stunning detail.
Our Price: $29.95
Foliage  Item#: 9781580176484
Add foliage to your garden or terrace to achieve textural depth and season-extending color not possible with flowers or grasses alone.
Our Price: $24.95
So You Want to Start a Nursery  Item#: 9780881925845
Whether you're a backyard hobbyist or a wholesale grower, author Tony Avent provides a primer on the nursery industry as a whole with discussion of the merits and disadvantages of retail, wholesale, mail-order, and liner operations.
Our Price: $24.95
Outdoor Water Features  Item#: 9781580173346
Complete easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions, including materials lists and cross-section drawings. Comprehensive information on installing pumps and filters, fitting fountains, creating formal and informal ponds, and selecting plants for water
Our Price: $17.95
Hoophouse Handbook  Item#: 9780977978113
Editor: Lynn Byczynski. The greatest thing in market farming since the tractor! A hoophouse is a low-cost, low-tech greenhouse structure that is erected right in the field so plants can be grown in the ground, but with some protection from the elem
Our Price: $15.00
Make Your Own Bentwood Trellises DVD  Item#: PVPD-3005
Take a break with Jim Long on his beautiful herb farm and learn how to make your own rustic trellises for your garden or for a gift.
Our Price: $24.95
Saving Seeds  Item#: 9780882666341
Looking for something to add excitement and interest to your garden? Try raising and saving seeds for your own vegetables and flowers! Saving seeds is a time-honored tradition and one that more and more gardeners are discovering.
Our Price: $12.95
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE 1 ½ POUNDS WHILE SUPPLY LASTS!  Item#: TUBERS0001
Jerusalem Artichokes will grow throughout most of the U.S. from Zone 3 to Zone 9. The knobby tubers have a crisp texture, much like that of water chestnuts only a little sweeter. They resemble carrots in texture and have a nutty taste.
Our Price: $23.50
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE - 4 POUNDS WHILE SUPPLY LASTS!  Item#: TUBERS0002
Jerusalem Artichokes will grow throughout most of the U.S. from Zone 3 to Zone 9. The knobby tubers have a crisp texture, much like that of water chestnuts only a little sweeter. They resemble carrots in texture and have a nutty taste.
Our Price: $42.40
The Homeowners Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook  Item#: 9781580175708
The Homeowner's Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook. An extensive encyclopedia of hundreds of tree and shrubs
Our Price: $29.95
Pocket Gardens  Item#: 9780688168308
Pocket Gardens Big Ideas for Small Spaces. Full color photographs complete with garden plans and details,
Our Price: $20.00
Victory Garden Companion  Item#: 978006059775
Full to the brim with creative ideas, weekend projects, and inspired gardens, readers can pick and choose from a myriad of undertakings, whether it's container gardening, laying sod or creating a flower bed.
Our Price: $22.00
Find-It-Fast Answers For Your Vegetable Garden  Item#: 9781594863073
Find-It-Fast Answers for Your Vegetable Garden features hundreds of organic and natural solutions for tackling disease, pests, and weed problems.1251 ways to outsmart insects, diseases, and weeds and keep your plants healthy all season long.
Our Price: $19.95
The Life Cycle of Butterflies  Item#: 9781580176170
The Life Cycle of Butterflies. From egg to maturity, a visual guide to 23 common garden butterflies.
Our Price: $16.95
The Family Butterfly Book  Item#: 9781580172929
The Family Butterfly Book. Projects, activities, and a field guide to 40 favorite North American species.
Our Price: $16.95




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