Eat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, and Flowers For Your Landscape

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  • ISBN13: 9781423603849
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Edible plants provide spring blossoms, colorful fruit and flowers, lush greenery, fall foliage, and beautiful structure, but they also offer fruits, nuts, and seeds that you can eat, cook with, and preserve. Eat Your Yard! includes ideas for creating the landscape as well as an overview and tips on canning, pickling, dehydrating, freezing, juicing, and fermenting. … More >>

Eat Your Yard: Edible Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Herbs, and Flowers For Your Landscape

From a yard to a wildlife refuge

From a yard to a wildlife refuge
Montclair is the first municipality in New Jersey to be certified as a Community Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

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Sprinklers & Drip Systems: The Right System for Your Yard, Step-by-step Sprinkler Installation, Building Effective Drip Systems

61sDEePEdkL. SL160  Sprinklers & Drip Systems: The Right System for Your Yard, Step by step Sprinkler Installation, Building Effective Drip Systems

  • ISBN13: 9780376038401
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Take the mystery out of installing a watering system with this new edition of Sprinklers & Drip Systems. Visual guides and garden plans help you select, install, and maintain the right system—or systems—for your landscaping needs. Color photos assist in identifying the correct components when shopping for a particular sprinkler or drip system. You’ll save time, money, and conserve water by employing the book’s planning recommendations and installation instructions. Features: * Excellent reference volume whether self-installing or hiring contractors * Visual guides take the guesswork out of selecting the right sprinkler and drip system components * Step-by-step photos and instructions for planning and installation, plus information on maintenance and repairs * Showcases five different gardens to illustrate how particular systems address special landscaping needs… More >>

Sprinklers & Drip Systems: The Right System for Your Yard, Step-by-step Sprinkler Installation, Building Effective Drip Systems

Burglar swipes purse from home while resident does yard work

Burglar swipes purse from home while resident does yard work
Minneapolis police are warning residents about the start of another season of home burglaries. Last week, police say a woman working

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Projects for the Birder’s Garden: Over 100 Easy Things That You can Make to Turn Your Yard and Garden into a Bird-Friendly Haven

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  • ISBN13: 9780899093932
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Create your own private nature preserve-with dozens of ingenious ideas to turn a typical backyard into a beautiful natural habitat for birds and other wildlife.

Experience the gratification of watching birds gobble seeds and other treats from your homemade bird feeder. Look on with delight as a mother bird tends to her babies in the protective hideaway of a birdhouse you have lovingly constructed from a dried gourd. Create a sunflower plantation, a bird teepee, a tent-style twig feeder, a pedestal birdbath. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book, and your yard will quickly become an enticing playground, breeding ground, and feeding ground for colorful songbirds. And that’s not all-there are also projects specially designed to attract beautiful hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden.

Among the book’s special features:
- Projects require only a few simple tools and supplies and most can be easily and inexpensively assembled… More >>

Projects for the Birder’s Garden: Over 100 Easy Things That You can Make to Turn Your Yard and Garden into a Bird-Friendly Haven

The Fence Bible: How to plan, install, and build fences and gates to meet every home style and property need, no matter what size your yard.

51kCf6oBkTL. SL160  The Fence Bible: How to plan, install, and build fences and gates to meet every home style and property need, no matter what size your yard.

  • ISBN13: 9781580175302
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
A fence is more than just a barrier. Used in imaginative ways, it can become an architectural feature that blends well with the style of your house, a landscape element that enhances the appearance of your property, or an accent piece that helps define a part of your yard or garden.

In The Fence Bible hands-on home improvement expert Jeff Beneke provides an in-depth, comprehensive how-to encyclopedia that enables homeowners to choose and build the fences and gates that are best for their landscape–both for appearance and function.

Beneke suggests the appropriate types of fence to keep the swimming pool secure, con fine the livestock, keep deer away from the garden, or create outdoor living spaces. He then discusses the essentials of proper fence design and provides step-by-step illustrated instructions for planning, building, maintaining, and repairing any style of fence.

Beneke covers every kind of fencing: wood, masonry, and metal, … More >>

The Fence Bible: How to plan, install, and build fences and gates to meet every home style and property need, no matter what size your yard.

Scotts Lawns: Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard

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  • ISBN13: 9780696212703
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
  • Notes:

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Comprehensive guide on lawn-care activities published by the worldÂ’s leading lawn authority.Explains better ways to mow, weed, fertilize, troubleshoot, and treat for pests.Includes information on buying or renting lawn-care equipment and other products…. More >>

Scotts Lawns: Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard

Neighborhood news: Yard sale has plenty of bargains

Neighborhood news: Yard sale has plenty of bargains
The sale is in the dairy barn on the property of Linton Hall School and the St. Benedict Monastery (turn when you see the big yellow truck then follow the signs to the yard sale).

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The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way

51RvKHWxQJL. SL160  The Organic Gardeners Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth Friendly Way

  • ISBN13: 9781605296777
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the latest science-based recommendations for battling garden problems. With all-new photos of common and recently introduced pests and plant diseases, you can quickly identify whether you’ve discovered garden friend or foe and what action, if any, you should take.No other reference includes a wider range of methods for growing and maintaining an organic garden. The plant-by-plant guide features symptoms and solutions for 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits. The insect-and-disease encyclopedia includes a photo identification guide and detailed descriptions of damage readers may see. The extensiv… More >>

The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way

Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass

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Praise for the first edition: “The book is handsome, informative and amusingly written, and it should serve as an inspiration to those who are tired of old-fashioned lawns.” — Publishers Weekly Liz Primeau was ahead of her time when she transformed her manicured lawn in the suburbs into a mixed garden with a profusion of flowering plants, shrubs and cacti. Ever since, she has enjoyed an eyecatching front garden that requires no chemicals and little watering. Packed with practical tips and more than 250 beautiful photographs, this new, revised edition of Front Yard Gardens: Explores the history of the lawn and our attachment to it
Profiles 75 front yard gardens from across North America
Provides step-by-step instructions to start and grow a fabulous front yard garden This new edition of a classic guide covers planning and design, removing the grass, enriching the soil and planting and maintaining the garden. It is divided into … More >>

Front Yard Gardens: Growing More Than Grass


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