Winter squash and pumpkins were cultivated in this country long before Columbus arrived. They are a good source of vitamin and the seeds are high in leucine, tyrosine and vitamin B complex.
This e-handbook will teach you what you need to know about the different types of squash, cooking, preserving and storing squash and pumpkin. Recipes in this handy guide include:
In addition to using squash and pumpikns for delicious recipes, they can also be used for decorative purposes. 36 pages.
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Yogurt can play an important supplementary role in helping you maintain good nutrition during pregnancy and when dieting. Not only is yogurt easy to digest, but its thick, custardlike consistency seems to satisfy more than a glass of milk.
This e-handbook shows you how to make your own yogurt, equipment you need for making it and cooking with yogurt. Also included are delicious recipes including:
Using the information in this handy reference guide can help you get important vitamins and minerals in a tasty way! 37 pages.
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Wildflowers can enhance the beauty of your yard and add to your enjoyment. Wildflower meadows cost less than lawns to maintain, and consume much less water, gasoline, fertilizer and time.
This e-handbook describes how to grow meadow wildflowers that can fill either large or small yards with a seasonal procession of colors. Chapters include:
In addition to providing low-maintenance landscaping, wildflowers are extremely versatile and some species attract either butterflies or hummingbirds. 34 pages.
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This e-book is packed with 20 customizable designs, gardening tips and tricks, and conventional wisdom about the many uses of herbs. Creating Custom Garden Spaces is a fabulous guide to planning an organized, beautiful and practical garden for any space, large or small. Whether you’re a first-timer or an avid gardener, our detailed illustrations and maps will help you give your garden personality with our easily understandable designs, including:
This e-book on CD-ROM is packed with 20 customizable designs, gardening tips and tricks and conventional wisdom about the many uses of herbs. Creating Custom Garden Spaces is a fabulous guide to planning an organized, beautiful and practical garden for any space, large or small. Whether you’re a first-timer or an avid gardener, our detailed illustrations and maps will help give your garden personality with our easily understandable designs, including:
Hanging plants brighten dark corners, sweeten still breezes, soften stark lines, and bring drama to the drab.
This e-handbook describes how to create and design your own hanging basket garden. Chapters include:
This handy reference guide can show you ways to cater hanging baskets to your own tastes and color schemes, select from a wide range of varieties not available in nursery-grown baskets, and save money, too! 36 pages.
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Obtaining plants for your garden can potentially run up enormous expenses in your gardening budget, depending on the plants you want and how you go about getting them. However, with a little investigation and some hands-on propagation, you can be a thrifty gardener without sacrificing having all your favorite plants.
This e-handbook gives money-saving tips for the frugal gardener as well as how to take leave and stem cuttings from existing plants, air layering and fertilizing. Also has charts on what plants are most disease resistant and production rates for vegetable plants. 36 pages.
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Vegetables are high in vitamins, minerals, and fiber, lower in calories than most all other foods, cholesterol-free, virtually fat-free, relatively low in sodium and high in potassium, versatile and delicious!
This e-handbook will present basic cooking methods for vegetables, using tools and appliances found in most kitchen, storage tips and tasty ways to use leftovers. Also included are recipes for:
Vegetables are tastiest and most nutritious when they're properly prepared and this handy guide will show you how! 37 pages.
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Readily available plant and animal residues can supply an extremely valuable source of plant foods that over the years will reward you with better soil, better crops, and reduced grocery and fertilizer bills.
This e-handbook is aimed at helping you do just that as inexpensively as possible. Topics discussed in this handy reference include soil composition, air and water conditions, planting tips and growing your own green manure. A great resource for discovering how composting and mulching can richly benefit the soil, how to use these materials and what to use to make them. 36 pages.
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Shrubs are among the most versatile of garden plants. They can fill the landscape with color, shape and texture all year long. Shrubs have an added virtue of fast growth, sometimes maturing in as little as five years and lasting for many more years.
This e-handbook teaches you how to design with shrubs, choose, plant and care for them. Chapters include:
Shrubs live a long and happy life with relatively little care. Just right for the overworked gardener! 34 pages.
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Drying was one of the earliest methods of preservation humans found to save food from times of bounty to use when food was scarce and it is by far the simplest and most natural way of preserving food.
The concept of drying food is quite simple and this e-handbook takes you from preparing the food for drying to using your dried foods in scrumptious recipes. Chapters include:
With this handy reference guide, you can enjoy the taste of summer all winter long! 31 pages.
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You can have a good garden in clay with proper maintenance and a little elbow grease. This e-handbook shows you how to enrich the soil and improve its tilth along with long-term strategies to maintain the health of the soil. This valuable resource for gardeners has tips on mulching, organic additives, watering and which plants are especially suited for clay soil. 32 pages.
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