The Bug Out Gardening Guide

Author: Ron Foster
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505284454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
What exactly is Bug Out Gardening? Having your own garden in your own back yard is great but what if you must evacuate and have to go to a remote location or start up a garden on a bunch of bad soil? Most Preppers already realize that besides having dried foods stored foods for a disaster, one can also have fresh grown foods supplementing their diets. This book will teach you how simple it can be to take a garden with you when you bug out or take along the materials with you to create a small survival garden. Be better than just being basically prepared! Learn about growing vegetables from scratch when it absolutely matters and you find the stores are all closed and that you lack basic materials. Envision a portable system of gardening that you can instantly create your homestead with or take along for a long-term bug out situation. Imagine that this system allows you to garden anywhere, compost anywhere and thrive everywhere. Everyone should have access to healthy organic food and this is gardening made easy. Whether your plan is to bug out or bug in, whether or not you want to start a garden on your balcony or move to the country someday, this is the system for you. Learn gardening tips and tricks along with survival. Plant your very own portable medicinal garden and gain experience with remedies. Learn to grow food in a disaster and feed your family. This and so much more is included in this book. Gain the knowledge of how to create a Bug Out garden that can be assembled anywhere or explore systems to double your current gardens output and sustainability in a small space. This book includes a Preppers Herbal Guide to medicinal plants and their uses.

The Bug Out Gardening Guide: Growing Survival Garden Food When It Absolutely Matters

Author: Ron Foster
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780359110308
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 358

The Garden Guy

Author: David Owens
Publisher: Garden Guy
ISBN: 0970501617
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 125

Book Description
This sequel to the best-selling book Extreme Gardening is jam-packed with more of Owens's great gardening ideas that work in the desert areas. Broken down by months in an easy-to-read, handy organic gardening manual--a calendar of what to do and when to do it.

Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening

Author: Howard Garrett
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN: 1589794818
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.

Garden Insects of North America

Author: Whitney Cranshaw
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167443
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 704

Book Description
An updated edition of the most complete resource on backyard insects available This second edition of Garden Insects of North America solidifies its place as the most comprehensive guide to the common insects, mites, and other “bugs” found in the backyards and gardens of the United States and Canada. Featuring 3,300 full-color photos and concise, detailed text, this fully revised book covers the hundreds of species of insects and mites associated with fruits and vegetables, shade trees and shrubs, flowers and ornamental plants, and turfgrass—from aphids and bumble bees to leafhoppers and mealybugs to woollybears and yellowjacket wasps—and much more. This new edition also provides a greatly expanded treatment of common pollinators and flower visitors, the natural enemies of garden pests, and the earthworms, insects, and other arthropods that help with decomposing plant matter in the garden. Designed to help you easily identify what you find in the garden, the book is organized by where insects are most likely to be seen—on leaves, shoots, flowers, roots, or soil. Photos are included throughout the book, next to detailed descriptions of the insects and their associated plants. An indispensable guide to the natural microcosm in our backyards, Garden Insects of North America continues to be the definitive resource for amateur gardeners, insect lovers, and professional entomologists. Revised and expanded edition covers most of the insects, mites, and other “bugs” one may find in yards or gardens in the United States and Canada—all in one handy volume Features more than 3,300 full-color photos, more than twice the illustrations of the first edition Concise, informative text organized to help you easily identify insects and the plant injuries that they may cause

Zero Waste Gardening

Author: Ben Raskin
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711262330
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
"Plotting out all the basics, The Zero-Waste Garden focuses on unique yield maths to maximise space, taste and minimise waste.... Organic gardening expert, Ben Raskin, shares over 60 unique planning-for-yield guides for key crops. Work out how to make the most of the green space you have got, what to grow easily in it, and how much you will harvest seasonally for zero waste. Learn about the roots of organic gardening, and unearth how to plant waste-free for any size plot, from balcony containers to 5-metre-square yards. Peppered with root-to-stalk cooking techniques, and edibility tips including which crops you can eat straight away, this is a plot-to-plate handbook for everyone with a green-thumb."--Publisher.

The Bee Friendly Garden

Author: Doug Purdie
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1952534704
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 499

Book Description
Bees are our most important pollinators and they are in decline the world over. They love to live in urban environments, where it's a short flight path from one type of plant to the next. But conventional gardens that favour lawns and pesticides over flowers and edible plants are scaring the good bugs away. The Bee Friendly Garden is a guide for all gardeners great and small to encouraging bees and other good bugs to your green space. Includes: - How bees forage and why your garden needs them - A comprehensive plant guide to bee friendly plants - Simple changes anybody can make - Ideas for gardens of all sizes - Natural pest control and companion planting advice

The Vegetable Garderer's Bible

Author: Edward C. Smith
Publisher: David & Charles
ISBN: 9780715317815
Category : Organic gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Renowned American vegetable gardener Ed Smith, works according to four principles. He explains these principles: wide rows, organic methods, raised beds and deep soil, to show how to grow high yield crops and produce better quality food.

Texas Bug Book

Author: Malcolm Beck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide photographs and information about insects, mites, and spiders commonly found in Texas, discussing the appearance, biology and life cycle, habitat, feeding habits, economic importance, and natural and organic control of each bug.

Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse

Author: Isabel Lloyd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1789542375
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
'Brilliant... Equal parts irreverent, cheeky and vitally important... Charming... Much too valuable to tuck away until the zombies come... A gardening manual that you can put to use immediately, regardless of your situation' Zombie Research Society. Climate change? Brexit? Screaming brain-biters? Don't lose the plot, this book can help! Irreverent, straightforward and useful, it shows even complete beginners how to grow enough of their own food to survive when Armageddon arrives and imports collapse. Or even if they don't. A grow-your-own guide for the generation who'd rather eat compost than watch Gardeners' World, it tells you how to sow and grow 20 key crops, whether you have two pots, a patio or a whole allotment to play with. It takes you through what seeds, tools and other kit you'll need, teaches you how to plan and plant your site for maximum nutrition, and suggests gardening projects to get underway while civilization still stands, from growing dinner in a dustbin to a juice bar on a balcony. All while sticking a garden fork in the eye of the undead. Gardening for the Zombie Apocalypse: surviving has never been so much fun.