Books with author Greg Douglas

How To Create A Stunning Shade GardenThe simple technique in shade gardening that everybody ignores Two rules of wateringHow to cheat at growing under treesStep by step explanation about how to construct the ultimate shade garden bed that will grow all perennial shade flowersThe ongoing maintenance of shade garden bedsAdding soil around tree roots42 Plant profiles of shade gardening plants and how to grow them.Get some new shade gardening ideas right now

How To Be The Envy of The Neighborhood With Spring BulbsIn this book about gardening with spring bulbs and getting your bulbs to rebloom year after year, author Doug Green gives you the honest truth about: How to grow tulips and how long they'll live and bloom What to do if your tulips stop blooming How to plant flower bulbs Growing flower bulbs in containers Everything you need to know about daffodils How to care for daffodils Plant profiles of wonderful spring bulbs you've likely not grown yet Each section is step by step and includes what you need to know but - as in all Doug's ebooks, has no fluff.Get this ebook now to succeed and grow gorgeous spring blooming bulbs

The Real Things You Need To Know To Succeed At Growing TomatoesYou can grow massive crops of great tomatoes and this succinct ebook will give you the tools for success. Planting - where, when to how - all the details you really need to understandSpacing for maximum harvests depending on garden spaceGlossary - all the strange terms nurseries useHow to improve your soil for tomatoes (and other vegetables too)Growing tomatoes in containers: pro tipsWhy you really want to mulch your tomatoesOrganic mulches versus plastic mulchesPruning for maximum harvestsStaking versus cages versus growing without supportHow to feed your tomatoes for maximum harvestsThe role of organic matter in the life of a tomatoGetting earlier crops than the neighborsTomato problems: from insects to disease and their solutionsProblem summary charts to make it easierQuestions readers have asked over the years. Doug Green has been in the gardening and nursery trade for over 30 years, growing just about every kind of plant you can imagine. For more years than he cares to admit, he grew a fall crop of tomatoes in his greenhouses for sales to local stores. His own gardening is organic and this was how he grew his plants - safe to eat for his family and neighbors. Green learned the tricks of the trade from the professionals and turned many of these techniques into home garden practices increasing his backyard yields to feed his own family on smaller numbers of plants and to increase his reputation as a lazy gardener always looking for maximum yields with minimum work.

Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? How do we find happiness? Once again, Old Turtle's wise answers offer readers of all ages inspiration, solace, and the most important gift of all -- hope. Timed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of the national bestseller Old Turtle, this companion picture book is sure to delight fans of the original while it simultaneously speaks to the concerns of the world today. New York Times bestselling author Douglas Wood's tale of wisdom and wonder finds its perfect complement in the ethereal and evocative paintings of Greg Ruth.

How To Really Have A Better Garden With Proven Companion Planting New and updated companion planting charts for download are linked in this e-book. You'll want to read the front part of the book because these contain the techniques that commercial gardeners use. Author Doug Green doesn't shy away from exploring the traditional and popular companion planting combinations - he gives the basics to you in easy to understand graphic formats. This is an ebook that delivers science-based data along with the traditional methods on how to use plants in combinations .If you're looking for folklore, Green has included a simple to understand graphic section of the most popular combinations.Introduction - wherein the author has his sayAnecodotal evidence versus scientific evidenceSo what does work?TrapcroppingCrop Rotation for Effective Companion PlantingWhat is Interplanting?Long and Short Term PlantsHeight and Growth PatternsRoot Patterns and SpacingShade Tolerant Vegetable Companion PlantingTraditional Companion PlantingVegetable Companion PlantingHerbal Companion PlantingClick here to buy this book if you're looking for proven ways to combine plants in your garden that work.

How To Grow The Most Sensual Herb In Your Garden How to Grow Lavender: From light to soils and feedingHow long does a lavender plant live?How to prune lavender?Propagating New Lavender Plants From Cuttings and SeedOverwintering LavenderGrowing Lavender in ContainersLavender VarietiesGetting Lavender Ready for Floral UsesBuy this ebook right now and never lack for lavender in your garden

You Can Instantly Improve Your Garden With These Beginner Gardening TipsWhat's In This Book?The only three things you must do to have a great garden. Ignore the rest if you have or want to.Two simple ways to get your soil right that take almost no work.The simplest way to get a garden to bloom all summer if you're using perennials.The ten perennials you should buy and ignore the rest if you want easy blooms.The myth of the cottage garden and why you can have one easily.Basic Pest Control and why you should relax about insects.Roses and what you really need to know to keep them healthy and bloomingSimple Organic Lawn Care - it can and should be played on.Bulbs for Everyone. Simple tricks of the tradeEasy Organic Gardening - compost and compost tea recipes to get you startedAnnuals - planting distances that baffle many people are laid out hereHanging Baskets and Containers - the three things you have to do in order to make them look good all summerVegetable gardening rules of thumb. Planting distances and container vegetable gardeningTomatoes - growing tips to maximize your harvests.Herb Gardening for the home kitchen gardenWho Is This Ebook ForIt's for gardeners who want easy gardening and who want simple, clear directions on creating a garden. It's for people who really don't want to garden or who are just too busy to garden but who need to know the basics to keep their house looking good.It's for people who want a clear, no-nonsense set of directions to get them started gardening.Who is Doug Green?Doug has been in the nursery trade almost all his working life - as a specialist plant nursery owner for over 25 years and having worked in Canada's largest perennial nursery - he knows plants. And he continuall experiments with new plants and new techniques to grow them.He's an award winning garden author who has been answering gardening questions and providing gardening tips and ideas to absolute beginner gardeners in his nursery, his radio programme, magazine articles and newspaper columns. Not to mention he has three large websites full of how-to gardening answers and plant profiles - all aimed at helping beginner gardeners succeed.This ebook is a summary of all those tips - all aimed at helping you have a great garden right from the start.

Award winning author Doug Green outlines the practical ways you can deal with clay soils in your garden. He gives you all the options, from organic matter to digging to gypsum and even to what's involved in installing drainage tiles. He does all this with his typical brand of humor explaining practical no-nonsense gardening techniques learned in his own clay-soil garden. Plant Lists for Clay SoilsAnd if readers don't want to do any of the tough work, Doug also lists the plants that grow on clay soils - the bulbs, perennials and bigger shrubs and trees that can form a backbone of summer long blooms and shade for just about any clay soil garden. A Practical BookThis is another practical how-to gardening ebook from this 30-year veteran of the nursery trade. From working for Canada's largest perennial nursery to owning his own specialist plant nursery, Doug has grown and experimented with thousands of plants in a variety of growing conditions. His current garden features both shallow soils and clay soils and his raised bed cottage garden is the cover of this ebook. Doug delivers no-nonsense, practical advice with humor to help you solve your gardening problems.I thoroughly enjoyed Doug Green's reliable and often humorous guide to basic soil science, along with the wonderful quotes that Doug gathered about soil and dirt! Love love love the home garden photographs too. Great information that will enable anyone to garden on heavy clay soils. Geri Laufer Author Tussie-Mussies: The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers“Wish I had this book when I lived in Texas and gardened on gumbo clay! I learned by trial and error, but it was a long process. This book would have shortened the process and given more ideas.”Doreen Howard Author, Editor, Blogs at the Old Farmers AlmanacAs someone who also has worked with clay (and not on a potter's wheel), I wish I had this book twenty years ago. Not only comprehensive, covering many aspects of soil, it provides excellent detail on the problem of gardening on clay. David Hobson Author Diary of a Mad Gardener“Doug Green’s Gardening on Clay looks at something that many gardeners consider a curse: Clay. But instead of treating a clay-based soil as a curse, Green explains what it is, how to manage it for best results, and then talks about plants that perform well in clay. Gardening on Clay is written in a way that even non-gardeners will understand. In the section on soil composition, Green uses money to explain soil particle size, saying: ‘Let me give you another way of looking at this. If sand ranges in dollar amounts between a dime and 2 dollars, then silt is a nickel and clay is a fifth of a penny.’ A great read.” SteveSilver Award of Achievement, Garden Writers Association, 2012Author "Grow Figs Where You Think You Can't"

Perhaps you'd like to know a secret, one of the happiest ones of all. You will surely find it for yourself one day. You'll discover it all on your own, maybe when you least expect it. If you've not yet discovered the secret of saying thanks, it's waiting for you. The secret can be found in the sunrise that offers promises full for the day ahead, or in the gentle shade of a tree sheltering you from the hot rays of the sun, or on the rock that offers rest from a long walk. In the inspirational text that made him a bestselling, internationally acclaimed author, Douglas Wood offers a spiritual homage to nature and the world. Greg Shed's stunning portraits of the natural world tenderly portray all of the many ways in which we can say thanks for the wonders we sometimes take granted in life.

Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? How do we find happiness? Once again, Old Turtle's wise answers offer readers of all ages inspiration, solace, and the most important gift of all -- hope. Timed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of the national bestseller Old Turtle, this companion picture book is sure to delight fans of the original while it simultaneously speaks to the concerns of the world today. New York Times bestselling author Douglas Wood's tale of wisdom and wonder finds its perfect complement in the ethereal and evocative paintings of Greg Ruth.

Cyril Rush is the heir to a large American business fortune. He was pushed out of the family and is being hunted by his uncle to prevent him from inheriting what is rightfully his. Cyril has been in hiding and while doing so, has developed a number of skills that are neither socially, nor legally, acceptable. There are various killings ("Call me Connie"), a very funny counterfeiting operation and many other anti-social acts culminating in a very realistic assassination of both the predatory uncle and the President of the United States.Cyril and his band of merry pranksters cross the country from Southern California, through Canada, back down to the United States and eventually to Chicago always answering new calls to action as they unite to help Cyril escape his uncle and reclaim his long lost legacy.