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· A complete guide to growing heirloom tomatoes, whether you have a backyard or a small garden set up · Learn about tomato varieties, germination, planting, staking and caging, food, water, maintenance, pest control and diseases, and harvesting · Understand the benefits of growing your own tomatoes that go beyond the obvious fact that they taste better · Also included are fascinating tomato lore and expert tips and techniques · Written in the witty, funny, and conversational tone Mike McGrath is known for in his popular PBS show, You Bet Your Garden

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A detailed guide to learn the sustainable, low-cost way to produce rich, fertile soil in your backyard · Includes everything you need to know about composting and what it is, how to make it, how to store it, and how to use it · Perfect for both small-space gardeners in the city or large scale gardeners in rural areas · Discover how to recycle your household waste in an environmentally efficient manner to grow beautiful fruits, vegetables, and flowers · Contains insightful information on community composting, worm composting, various techniques, answers to frequently asked questions, and more

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Easy to start, simple to learn, and fun to do, punch needle is relaxing as it is gratifying! With just a few affordable tools, materials, and Beginner’s Guide to Punch Needle Projects , anyone can enjoy the art of punch needle. Featuring 26 step-by-step colorful and fun projects for lively home décor, pillows, gift tags, toys, and so much more, this book will teach you all of the essential techniques as you create a collection of playful punch needle masterpieces! Author Juliette Michelet is an embroiderer, crafter, punch needle artist, and contributor for Marie Claire Idées , making her a leading voice to introduce you to this approachable and exciting hobby!

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The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineering Situated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnyside Gardens has been an icon of urbanism and planning since its inception in the 1920s. Not the most beautifully planned community, nor the most elegant, and certainly not the most perfectly preserved, Sunnyside Gardens nevertheless endures as significant both in terms of the planning principles that inspired its creators and in its subsequent history. Why this garden suburb was built and how it has fared over its first century is at the heart of Sunnyside Gardens .Reform-minded architects and planners in England and the United States knew too well the social and environmental ills of the cities around them at the turn of the twentieth century. Garden cities gained traction across the Atlantic before the Great War, and its principles were modified by American pragmatism to fit societal conditions and applied almost as a matter of faith by urban planners for much of the twentieth century. The designers of Sunnyside— Clarence Stein, Henry Wright, Frederick Ackerman, and landscape architect Marjorie Cautley—crafted a residential community intended to foster a sense of community among residents. Richly illustrated throughout with historic and contemporary photographs as well as architectural plans of the houses, blocks, and courts, Sunnyside Gardens first explores the planning of Sunnyside, beginning with the English garden-city movement and its earliest incarnations built around London. Chapters cover the planning and building of Sunnyside and its construction by the City Housing Corporation, the design of the homes and gardens, and the tragedy of the Great Depression, when hundreds of families lost their homes. The second section examine how the garden suburbs outside London have been preserved and how aesthetic regulation is enforced in New York. The history of the preservation of Sunnyside Gardens is discussed in depth, as is the controversial proposal to place the Aluminaire House, an innovative housing prototype from the 1930s, on the only vacant site in the historic district. Sunnyside Gardens pays homage to a time when far-sighted and socially conscious architects and planners sought to build communities, not merely buildings, a spirit that has faded to near-invisibility

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The Illfracombe bells book is about the original discovery of iron ore in Australia and the story of two iron ore bells made from that ore deposit at Beaconsfield, Tasmania in the 19th century as a means of testing the quality of the ore. A replica of the original bell was cast in Launceston in 2018 weighing 96kg and presented to the Beaconsfield Mine and Heritage centre that year. The original bell weighed 100kgs and was exhibited in the London International Exhibition in 1872 and the Vienna Exhibition in 1873. A fascinating story of a bell never to return to Tasmania.

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Enhance Your Home with Flowers














In this beautifully designed book, brimming with inspirational photographs, Clare Nolan reveals her secrets for growing a bountiful harvest as well as styling spectacular displays that will fill your home with color and the gorgeous scent of the garden year-round. Clare takes the mystique out of the growing process—from choosing the plants to suit both your garden and home and laying out your cutting patch, to planning ahead so you get your perfect palette of color, texture and shape to play with at the right time. An entire chapter on arranging will inspire you to create spectacular arrangements for your home without the need for complicated floristry techniques. Being able to step out of the back door and pick a single stem for beside the bed, pull together a posy for a friend or create a colorful centerpiece is an exciting and rewarding addition to the whole “grow your own” experience.





























Grow your own flower shop at the bottom of your garden!














· Comprehensive guide to planning, planting, and maintaining a bountiful home flower garden














· How to choose your plants, position your patch and grow luxurious flowers














· Cultivation tips for annuals, biennials, bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, perennials, shrubs, trees, climbers, foliage and fillers














· When and how to harvest—and how to make your flowers last longer














· Styling guide for stunning arrangements that look like they came from a shop














· Expert advice from an experienced interiors stylist and lifestyle editor

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