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  • Companion Planting for Vegetable Gardening

    Douglas Green

    eBook (Douglas Green, Feb. 23, 2013)
    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.
  • Gardening for Non-Gardeners: The Absolute Beginner Gardening Guide With Tips and Advice for Flowers and Vegetables

    Douglas Green

    eBook (Douglas Green, Jan. 20, 2014)
    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.
  • 2047: Hell In A Handbasket

    D. Frank Green

    language (Douglas Green, Nov. 24, 2016)
    George Gwinnett wasn't your average corporate executive running a billion dollar mercenary business. When his best friend offered him the Vice Presidency, he gained control of the world's most powerful weapon but now stood in the cross-hairs of powerful interests around the world. His thirty-year-old daughter Sarah recently left the military with her reputation as a stone-dead killer intact and continues within George's company. Protecting her from Ed Gordon, a young reporter making a name for himself, became a full-time job for Gwinnett and she doesn't help. Gordon comes closer to revealing the truth, George makes battle plans to protect the U.S. and Sarah runs QuellCorp as a private army. And then it all goes to hell in a handbasket and the world changes in this dystopian novel.
  • Future Forward: Dystopia Resolved.

    D. Frank Green

    language (Douglas Green, June 9, 2017)
    When a young man has worked with a near-sentient AI to overthrow a corporatocracy and wants to disappear back into his life, it doesn't turn out the way he imagines. He meets the girl of his dreams and together they find a way to hold back the AI from turning sentient. The AI appears to be controlled, the relationship has great promise, and then things go completely sideways as the computers do unexpected things in the Future Forward: Dystopia Resolved series.