Название: How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged, New Edition
Автор: Veronica Peerless
Издательство: DK
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 244 Мб
Язык: английский / English

How to keep alive 119 gorgeous indoor plants, then help them bloom and thrive. You’ve welcomed a plant into the home: Now what? Your first job is to keep it alive, then after that help it bloom and thrive. Learn all the tips and tricks you need to become a proud plant parent—of more than 100 different plants (if you’re up for it)! Yellowed leaves, drooping leaves, dried leaves, even though you've watered it: What’s going on? How Not to Kill Your Houseplant will explain—and fix—your houseplant woes. Learn to spot the danger signs and take the proper action to rescue your sick plant. Follow quick tips to understand what your plant does and doesn't like: how much light, water, food, heat, and humidity. Discover the perfect plant for your unique space and needs. Bathrooms, cold rooms, at a desk, on a windowsill, or in a gloomy corner or hot suntrap—there are plants for every location to create your own indoor oasis. This is your guide to every stage of plant parenting for beginners, from identifying exactly what's in the pot to keeping it in check when it grows too well!

Название: Азы садоводства и огородничества
Серия: Путеводитель по саду и огороду
Автор: Ермакова С.О., Петрова Т.В.
Издательство: М.: Мир книги
Год: 2008
Cтраниц: 256
Формат: djvu
Размер: 23 мб
Язык: русский

Книга представляет собой настоящую мини-энциклопедию садовых и огородных работ. В ней содержатся все полезные сведения, необходимые начинающим дачникам: от выбора и планирования участка до сбора урожая плодовых и овощных культур. На ее страницах вы найдете информацию почти обо всем: о выборе участка, методах размножения, посадки и обрезки плодовых деревьев, работе с почвой, проведении подкормок растений и правилах ухода за ними, а также о самых популярных сортах плодовых и овощных культур.

Название: Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading
Автор: Anders Rydell, Alva Herdevall
Издательство: Skyhorse
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 67 Мб
Язык: английский / English

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own cut flowers, and how to bake a perfect loaf of sourdough. Discover how easy it is to churn butter, make your own yogurt, and raise chickens for meat and eggs. Turn rhubarb stalks into refreshing summer wine, perfect your compost pile, and make decadent and nontoxic skin creams.

Название: Citrus fruits: production, consumption and health benefits
Автор: Simmons, Daphne
Издательство: Nova Science Publishers
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 204
Размер: 11,5 МБ
Язык: English

Citrus is the most widely produced fruit in the world and it is grown in more than 80 countries. Due to its varied and wide chemical composition as a consequence of its nature, citrus is an exceptional feedstock to the designing and assessing of biorefineries. A wide spectrum of products are obtained from citrus, which nowadays are extracted and purified into essential oils, antioxidants and other compounds.

Название: The Beginner's Guide to Gardening: Basic Techniques, Easy-to-Follow Methods, Earth-Friendly Practices
Автор: Creative Homeowner
Издательство: Design Originals
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 103 Мб
Язык: английский / English

You don't have to have a green thumb to have a healthy thriving garden! Inside The Beginner's Guide to Gardening, you'll learn: Skills and Techniques: Valuable expert guide to developing new gardens and taking care of those you already have. Getting Started: How to choose healthy plants and build productive soil. Garden Care: Easy-to-follow, time-saving methods and the least toxic disease & pest controls. Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs: Advice on growing, propagating, and caring for flowers in containers and the garden, with plant encyclopedias. Roses: How to select, grow, and prune healthy roses, as well as control pests & diseases. Ground Covers, Trees, Shrubs: Fundamentals on planting, growing, and maintaining, plus detailed plant directories. Vegetables and Herbs: Introduction to growing and care, including informative directories.

Название: Nature Garden: Create Your Own Green Space With This Expert Gardening Guide
Автор: Joe Swift
Издательство: Collins
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 190 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Support and protect the natural world with tips from expert gardener Joe Swift. With around 16 million UK gardens covering a larger area than all our nature reserves, you could say our largest nature reserve is one big garden! In this practical guide, Joe shows you how to support and protect our rich and varied wildlife habitats. Joe's no-nonsense approach covers everything you need to know about doing your bit for wildlife. Learn how to manage soil and carefully select plants to create rich and varied habitats, from tall trees down to tiny, spring-flowering bulbs. In this book, Joe demonstrates how to manage your outdoor space sensitively, and debunks the common misconception that 'wildlife-friendly gardens' have to be unkempt. From bug hotels to pollinators, he also shares his ideas on fun and innovative projects to help kids, as the future custodians of our planet, engage with nature. Joe Swift is an author, TV presenter and garden designer. He makes regular appearances on BBC's Gardener's World and the RHS Flower Shows.

Название: A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need
Автор: Scott Zona
Издательство: Cool Springs Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 25 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Ever wonder if plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings of the plants you love are revealed and celebrated in this guide by botany expert Dr. Scott Zona. A Gardener’s Guide to Botany is not just another book on how to grow plants. Instead, it’s a lushly illustrated botanical journey into what makes plants tick , delivered in layman’s terms that are easily understood and appreciated by both advanced gardeners and first-timers . It’s the chlorophyll-infused science behind the plants you know and love, whether you grow them indoors or out. You’ll learn how different plant parts function (do you know what stomata are and why every leaf has hundreds of them?), the traits that separate plants from animals , and how through eons of evolution the plants we grow in our gardens and homes have developed a million different fascinating adaptations that allow them to survive and thrive. From their leaf shape and growth habit to how they have sex and metabolize the nutrients they absorb, A Gardener’s Guide to Botany covers it all in an accessible and thought-provoking way.

Название: A Gardener's Guide to Botany: The biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need
Автор: Scott Zona
Издательство: Cool Springs Press
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 25 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Ever wonder if plants sleep or why their leaves are shaped a certain way? The inner workings of the plants you love are revealed and celebrated in this guide by botany expert Dr. Scott Zona. A Gardener’s Guide to Botany is not just another book on how to grow plants. Instead, it’s a lushly illustrated botanical journey into what makes plants tick , delivered in layman’s terms that are easily understood and appreciated by both advanced gardeners and first-timers . It’s the chlorophyll-infused science behind the plants you know and love, whether you grow them indoors or out. You’ll learn how different plant parts function (do you know what stomata are and why every leaf has hundreds of them?), the traits that separate plants from animals , and how through eons of evolution the plants we grow in our gardens and homes have developed a million different fascinating adaptations that allow them to survive and thrive. From their leaf shape and growth habit to how they have sex and metabolize the nutrients they absorb, A Gardener’s Guide to Botany covers it all in an accessible and thought-provoking way.

Название: Домоводство для старших школьников
Автор: Составители А. Данев, Т. Матвеенко
Издательство: М.: Учпедгиз
Год: 1959
Cтраниц: 356
Формат: pdf
Размер: 104 мб
Язык: русский

При составлении сборника учитывались изданные Министерством просвещения СССР программы по домоводству. Сборник призван служить справочником при прохождения в старших классах средней школы факультативного курса домоводства. Рассчитан как на девочек, так и на мальчиков.

Название: Цитрусовые растения. Шаг за шагом к собственным райским кущам
Автор: Ганс-Петер Майер
Издательство: ОЛМА Медиа Групп
Год: 2012
Страниц: 128
Формат: pdf
Размер: 33 mb

Цитрусовые растения поднимают настроение: создают южный шарм и ощущение приближающегося отпуска. Превратите свой балкон, террассу или зимний сад в кусочек Средиземноморья.
В этой книге эксперт расскажет, шаг за шагом, как правильно ухаживать за цитрусовыми растениями, размножать их и беречь от вредителей и болезней. Советы по зимнему содержанию подготовят темпераментного южанина к следующему сезону!