Record details

• ISBN: 089721501X
• ISBN: 9780897215015
• Physical Description: 224 pages : color illustrations, color maps. pb. ; 28 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: Des Moines, Iowa : Meredith Books, [2004]
• Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Ortho Books"--Cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Keys to Successful Gardening 6 -- Make a Plan 7 -- Strategies for Top-Notch Crops 8 -- Water Wisely 10 -- Guarding the Harvest 11 -- Making a Garden 12 -- Selecting a Site 14 -- Start with Soil 17 -- Using Fertilizers 20 -- Getting in Tune with the Seasons 22 -- Preparing for Spring 23 -- Season-Stretching Devices 24 -- Spring Planting 25 -- Summertime 26 -- Fall Gardens 27 -- Gallery of Vegetables 28 -- Living with Herbs 70 -- Plant Types 72 -- Plant Parts 73 -- Growing and Caring for Herbs 74 -- Pruning 76 -- Propagation 77 -- Gallery of Herbs 78 -- Fruits, Berries & Nuts 114 -- Fruits in the Landscape 115 -- Climate and Microclimate 116 -- A Sample Garden 117 -- Dwarf Trees 118 -- Planting and Caring for an Orchard 120 -- Soil 122 -- Planting 124 -- Fertilizing and Watering 126 -- Fruits in Containers 128 -- Pests and Diseases of Fruits 130 -- Pruning and Training Fruits 140 -- Pruning Specific Fruits 146 -- Gallery of Temperate Fruit 154 -- Gallery of Temperate Fruit 154 -- Berries 171 -- Nuts 182 -- Growing and Caring for Subtropical Fruits 186 -- Gallery of Subtropical Fruits 192.

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Subject:

Fruit-culture.
Herb gardening.
Vegetable gardening.