TPS - Featured Reads - April 2024 | Tinley Park Public Library

1) Blue ribbon vegetable gardening: the secrets to growing the biggest and best prize winning produce

Author

Torpey, Jodi B

2) The complete gardener's guide

3) The month-by-month gardening guide: daily advice for growing flowers, vegetables, herbs & houseplants

Author

Böhmig, Franz

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"This is a compendium of practical advice for the home gardener, arranged by month. The individual bits of advice for each month are arranged as follows: general advice; advice for the vegetable garden (including herbs); and advice for ornamental plants (further subdivided into the outdoor garden, terrace and balcony, and windowsill and houseplants). There is also a massive section of charts at the back of the book. The advice is applicable to U.S....

4) The new gardener's handbook: everything you need to know to grow a beautiful & bountiful garden

Author

Beyers, Daryl

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From one of the experts at the New York Botanical Garden, this guide shares the science of good gardening in a design-forward, beginner-friendly way that will appeal to new gardeners everywhere.

5) The beginner's guide to growing heirloom vegetables: the 100 easiest-to-grow, tastiest vegetables for your garden

Author

Iannotti, Marie

6) Growing under cover: techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden

Author

Jabbour, Niki

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"Niki Jabbour shows how to use row covers, shade cloth, low tunnels, cold frames, hoophouses, and other protective structures to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive"--

7) Niki Jabbour's veggie garden remix: 224 new plants to shake up your garden and add variety, flavor, and fun

Author

Jabbour, Niki

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2019 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner 2019 GardenComm Media Awards Gold Medal Winner Best-selling author Niki Jabbour invites you to shake up your vegetable garden with an intriguing array of 224 plants from around the world. With her lively "Like this? Then try this!" approach, Jabbour encourages you to start with what you know and expand your repertoire to try related plants, many of which are delicacies in other cultures....

8) The urban garden: 101 ways to grow food and beauty in the city

Author

Jentz, Kathy

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"101 creative and inspiring ideas to grow edible and decorative plants in urban environments"--

9) How to garden indoors & grow your own food year round: ultimate guide to vertical, container, and hydroponic gardening

Author

Roman, Kim

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A complete guide filled with a host of valuable information and DIY projects, Ultimate Guide to Indoor Gardening details how to grow food in your home. From growing vegetables, microgreens, and herbs to hydroponic gardening, troubleshooting, and more, learn to grow fresh produce all year-round, no matter where you live. With expert tips on composting, container gardening for both root and above ground vegetables, fermentation, and more, this must-have...

10) The beginner's guide to starting a garden: 326 fast, easy, affordable ways to transform your yard one project at a time

Author

Roth, Sally

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"The prospect of revamping a yard is daunting. Where do you start? How do all the various areas come together in a beautiful, cohesive way? The Beginner's Guide to Starting a Garden simplifies the process by showing you how to spend fewer hours (and a minimal amount of money) in the garden by tackling one small area at a time. You'll find garden plans for ten unique areas--the entryway, the shady areas under trees, and more--that can be linked together...

11) The vegetable garden problem solver handbook: identify and manage diseases and other common problems on edible plants

Author

Mulvihill, Susan

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"The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook contains all-natural solutions for common problems plaguing your vegetable garden, including plant diseases, disorders, animal pests, and weather woes"--

12) Handmade garden projects: step-by-step instructions for creative garden features, containers, lighting & more

Author

Forkner, Lorene Edwards

13) Fine gardening: Grow healthier & easier gardens :698 tips and techniques

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Looking for the best way to amend your soil, get rid of pests, or prune your unprunables? This book is packed with time-tested tips, shortcuts, and ingenious solutions to gardening emergencies, from the pages of Fine gardening magazine.

14) Backyard homesteading all-in-one

Author

Brock, Todd

Series

For dummies

15) Growing beautiful food: a gardener's guide to cultivating extraordinary vegetables and fruit

Author

Benson, Matthew

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Growing Beautiful Food is a chronicle of growing food and living sustainably as a life-changing experience, with all the joy, folly, work, and wonder of transforming a small piece of earth into a thriving organic farm. Growing Beautiful Food is both inspiration and instruction, with detailed growing advice for 50 remarkable crops, a memorable narrative, and evocative imagery. It's a photographic journey through four seasons in the garden, fueling...

16) The gardening in miniature prop shop: handmade accessories for your tiny living world

Author

Calvo, Janit

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Calvo shares step-by-step instructions for accessories to bring your mini-gardens to life. Ideal for both novices and experienced miniaturists, this book will help you appreciate all kinds of miniature and dwarf plants, and help you expand your skills in mosaics, woodworking, and other applied arts.

17) Practical organic gardening: the no-nonsense guide to growing naturally

Author

Highland, Mark

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A guide to organic gardening offers tips on soil selection, using natural remedies for pests and diseases, and repurposing vintage containers.

18) The creative vegetable gardener: 60 ways to cultivate joy, playfulness, and beauty along with a bounty of food

Author

Trimble, Kelly Smith

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"With The Creative Vegetable Gardener, lifestyle editor and master gardener Kelly Smith Trimble encourages readers to widen their focus, be playful, and imagine a vegetable garden that reflects their own unique aesthetic and offers a meditative sanctuary as well as a source of fresh, homegrown food"--