Gardening Books

Rocks, Dirt, Worms & Weeds: A Fun, User-Friendly, Illustrated Guide to Creating a Vegetable or Flower Garden with Your Kids, Hutton, Jeff ISBN: 9781616087227

Shows you and your kids how to create a garden to grow your own food as well as lots of fun flowers to create crafts, butterfly gardens, and more. This title features projects for parents and kids to do together with sketches and instructions for making a rain gauge, making stepping stones, decorating egg carton planters, and more.

The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for Town and Country, Bane, Peter ISBN: 9780865716667

What are some food favorites in Wisconsin, and why are they special to us? How have our landscape and the people who have inhabited it contributed to our food heritage? This unique blend of history book and cookbook gives kids a real taste for hands-on history by showing them how to create and sample foods that link us to the resources found in our state and the heritage of those who produce them.Designed for kids and adults to use together, "The Flavor of Wisconsin for Kids" draws upon the same source material that makes "The Flavor of Wisconsin" by Harva Hachten and Terese Allen a fascinating and authoritative document of the history and traditions of food in our state, and presents it in a colorful, kid-friendly format that's both instructional and fun. Mindful of the importance of teaching kids about "where" the foods they eat come from, each chapter examines a different food source--forests; waters; vegetable, meat, and dairy farms; gardens; and communities. The authors explore our state's foodways, from their origins to how they have changed over the years, and then offer a selection of related recipes. The recipes are written for modern kitchens but use many traditional ingredients and techniques. Level of difficulty is clearly noted, as well as whether a recipe requires a heat source to prepare.

The Vertical Garden: From Nature to the City, Blanc, Patrick ISBN: 9780393733792

Patrick Blanc's the godfather of the 'vegetal wall' (AJ Specification) green walls have brought a breath of fresh air to urban environments.

Fern Grower's Manual, Hoshizaki, Barbara Joe ISBN: 9781604694673

Ferns have graced our planet for hundreds of millions of years. With about 12,000 named species of ferns worldwide, the variety to be found among them is staggering in its array of forms, textures, and even colors. From towering tree ferns to tiny water clovers, ferns and fern allies offer a wide range of uses in the garden and home. This book offers useful advice on ferns and fern allies for any region, with details on cultivation, identification, landscaping, and more. The bulk of the book consists of an encyclopedic treatment of all the ferns in cultivation in the U.S. Some 700 species from 124 genera are described in detail, including physical descriptions, cultural requirements, hardiness, common names, synonyms, special uses, geographical range, and notable cultivars or related species. Each species is accompanied by a black-and-white illustration to allow for easy identification and to provide a useful means of comparing species. Updated and greatly expanded, this new edition of Hoshizaki's original 1975 book is the most comprehensive book available on fern cultivation.