Miranda Smith 
Gardening [EPUB ebook] 
The Complete Guide: Growing Secrets & Techniques

A comprehensive reference for growing flowers, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and more—with step-by-step instructions and over a thousand illustrations.Gardening: The Complete Guide lets you enjoy the process of gardening as much as the finished product. With plenty of inspirational photographs and hands-on instructional pictures, it presents the latest techniques for the twenty-first century gardener with an emphasis on time-saving, efficient practices, and devotes considerable space to growing herbs, flowers, vegetables, and fruit. This book is perfect for the gardener who wants to know how things grow and why certain practices are more effective. Includes: Valuable information on planning, planting, and maintaining all types of gardens, including vegetable, fruit, flower, water gardens, and specialty gardens Illustrated Plant-by-Plant Directories with detailed information on annuals, perennials, bulbs, biennials, water-garden plants, herbs, vines, fruits, and vegetables Step-by-step planting and growing instructions for all types of garden plants Tables and charts filled with valuable information that will help get you organized Tips for harvesting and storing fruits and vegetables from the garden, and for drying flowers More than one thousand garden-related color photographs and watercolors