Gardening Month by Month: Tips for Flowers, Vegetables, Lawns, & Houseplants (Easy-Growing Gardening Book 11)
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Gardening Month by Month: Tips for Flowers, Vegetables, Lawns, & Houseplants (Easy-Growing Gardening Book 11)
Gardening Month by Month lays out general gardening tips and tricks through the whole year. Are you planting vegetables, growing orchids, finding organic ways to care for your lawn, trying to raise fragrant roses? This book lays out what you need to know. Written for the beginning gardener, but also with plenty of information for the more advanced gardener.
Table of Contents:
JANUARY5 Save Time and Trouble With Garden Journals5 First section: To-do lists5 Second section: Reference lists.6 Third section: Tracking progress.6 Fourth section: Details of the natural world.7 Fifth section: Notes and comments.7 New Year’s Resolutions9 Garden Catalog Mayhem!10 Heirloom Vegetables – History Plus Taste Plus Hardiness12 January To-Do List14 January Garden Checklist for Zones 7 to 916 FEBRUARY18 Birds of Missouri18 Write Your Shopping Lists for Spring!19 MARCH21 Square Foot Gardening21 Getting Ready for Spring Tilling23 Why Soilbuilding is So Important25 Spring Wildflowers27 Great Organic Soil Additives to Make Healthy Soil29 Choose Tough Perennials and Annuals31 The Romance and History of Roses32 Time to Plant Your Vegetable Garden!!34 You Can Plant Trees and Shrubs in March35 Lawn Care in Early Early Spring36 Late March and Early April are Better Times for Potato Planting37 Trellis Planting38 Cold Frames39 APRIL40 Your Early April To-Do List40 What Plant Tags Actually Mean42 Damping-Off Disease and How to Stop It43 Get a Jump on Weeds45 Rabbits, Squirrels, and other Nuisances46 A True Blue Rose: Is It Possible? So Far, No.48 Try Something New in Your Perennial Garden This Year49 Lawn Tips for Spring50 MAY52 A May To-Do List!52 Rose Tips for May53 Organic Lawn Care Tips55 Potato Blight Also Affects Tomatoes57 Some Quick Reminders for Late May59 Fragrance Can Give Your Garden an Extra Dimension60 JUNE62 Spotted Cucumber Beetles62 Squash Bug Control62 Revamping Your Perennial Bed64 Deadheading Your Plants66 JULY67 July To-Do List67 Beat Heatstroke and Heat Exhaustion69 Take Care of Hummingbird Feeders70 Food Pantry Plea71 Helpful Tips for Your Lawn72 AUGUST74 Prepare Your Garden for a Fall Harvest74 August Lawn Tips75 Fusarium Wilt, Bacterial Wilt, and Other Wilts77 Fighting Weeds in High Summer79 SEPTEMBER82 Planting in Early Fall is the Best for Plants82 How to Weed When Weeds Have Pretty Much Taken Over Everything83 Pumpkins!84 Drying Fruit86 Free Plants! Divide Your Perennials87 OCTOBER91 Tips for Preparing the Garden for Winter91 The Truth About Green Tomatoes92 Winterize Your Lawn Mower93 Late Fall Flowers94 Tender Bulbs95 Bringing the Houseplants Inside96 Houseplants Part 2: Now That They’re Inside, Clean Them Up!97 Fall Bug Attack! Boxelder Bugs, Ladybugs, and Crickets99 NOVEMBER101 Orchids: Actually Not That Difficult To Grow (Mostly)101 How to Grow a Christmas Cactus Like Grandma’s103 Keep Bird Feeders Clean104 DECEMBER107 ‘Tis the Season for … Poinsettias107 Josephine, Empress of the Roses109 Water Does Not Equal Love for Houseplants110 How to Buy a Great Gardening Book112