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Make your own decision whether a particular book is useful to you. Everybody's circumstances and attitudes are different. Some may be available through your local library.
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eBooks about gardening available through ebooks.com
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Author: Kingsolver, Barbara; Kingsolver, Camille
Published By: HarperCollins
Format: Adobe, Mobipocket Reader, Microsoft Reader
Price: $11.95
How to grow your own food and gain some independence from the retail food supply system. A good-humored account of a family's experience in securing a more ecological, healthy, and satifying approach to food.
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Compost
Author: Thompson, Kenneth
Published By: Dorling Kindersley
Adobe
Price: $18.00
A 192-page illustrated practical book on compost. Useful to the novice and
the veteran composter.
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Creating Your Eco-friendly Garden
By: Horsfall, Mary
Published By: CSIRO Publishing
Adobe Price: $35.95
Available to read online in eb20
What gardening methods are best suited to your situation considering soil,
climate, surrounding buildings and vegetation, and your food needs.
Obtaining plants, planting times, watering options, drought-proofing, organic pest management, soil conservation, and maintaining biodiversity - all using low cost methods.
Mary Horsfall has many years experience growing self-sufficiency food crops organically in a harsh, dry-summer environment in Australia.
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Good Gardens with Less Water
By: Handreck, Kevin
Published By: CSIRO Publishing
Adobe
Price: $27.95
A practical guide to ornamental gardening with limited water anywhere in Australia.
How to improve soil structure to increase retention of water; selecting drought-tolerant plant varieties; watering systems; how much water to give which plants; rainwater harvesting; mulching; and using greywater in the garden.
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A Philosophy of Gardens
By: Cooper, David E.
Published By: Oxford University Press, UK
Adobe
Price: $47.25
Why gardens matter so much to so many people. The many meanings that gardens may have: a representation of nature, aesthetics,
spiritual connectedness to the good life, a combining of ones own power with the power of nature. Why gardening is an emotional experience. Cooper argues that the garden matters because it is a physical statement of the mystery that there is a world at all.
A readable and intellectually challenging book that proposes the appreciation of gardening to be similar to the appreciation of literature. Has many interesting citations from philosophical and religious authorities.
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Science and the Garden
Title: Science and the Garden: The Scienific Basis of Horticultural Practice
By: Ingram, David; Prue, Daphne Vince; Gregory, Peter J.
Published By: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Adobe format
$45.00
Explains the reasons for particular gardening methods and practices, for
example, why make the cut beneath a leaf node when taking cuttings. Explains
why plants are green, why plants need sufficient water, and other basic biology. Jargon-free explanations. Covers the structure of garden plants, nomenclature, genetics, plant breeding, environmental factors affecting growth, methods of propagation and production, pest and disease control, and storing the harvest. Provides preparation for the Royal Horticultural Society general examination. Valuable to horticultural students at certificate and diploma levels and useful to gardeners, growers and scientists.
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