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2004-01-01 Gardens have been kept by rural and urban people for millennia thus providing them with food, income and concrete opportunities to improve their livelihoods. Policy-makers, donors and other development specialists need to realize the great potential and opportunities that gardens can provide to...
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2001-01-01 More than 350 full-color illustrations and photographs complement an entertaining and informative guide to traditional garden folklore that looks at age-old gardening techniques and advice from around the world and offers an array of traditional remedies that really work to solve a variety of...
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1976-01-01 This book includes a record of the astonishingly rich and diverse flora of cultived plants of the United States, Canada, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
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1979-01-01 This bulletin provides background, nutritional information and planting instructions for a large number of vegetables--including pumpkin, yam, cowpea, cucumber, okra--grown in Bangladesh. Illustrations of planting techniques and of the vegetables themselves are provided.
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1941-01-01 This volume is intended to be useful as a handbook of ready reference, rapid aid to nomenclature and to spelling of names, help in labeling, medium of suggestions on the main or standard requirements in the cultivation of plants. It is designed to account for all the species and botanical...
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1974-01-01 This book helps to remove gardening stumbling blocks before you stumble, provides shortcuts in growing vegetables, flowers, bulbs, herbs, cacti, and succulents and gives ideas on growing in containers, hanging baskets, vertical gardens. It also includes ideas for gardeners in townhouse, high...
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1990-01-01 The purpose of this booklet is to demonstrate that you can grow your seed in a small area for many levels of benefit. It attempts to enable you to answer the questions "How much seed and how many plants do I need?" and "How much of area will I need to devote to become seed self-reliant?" Knowing...
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1916-01-01 A discussion for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families...
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1988-02-01 For the most complete, up-to-date information on starting plants from seed, turn toThe New Seed-Starter's Handbook. Written by a gardener with 30 years of experience, this easy-to-use reference explains everything you need to know how to start seeds and raise healthy seedlingssuccessfully. An...
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1982-01-01 New discoveries and techniques for gardening are highlighted in this publication.