Guide – ColorMag http://gardeningandlawncare.com Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:17:14 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 The Water Gardener’s Bible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building, Planting, Stocking, and Maintaining a Backyard Water Garden http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-water-gardeners-bible-a-step-by-step-guide-to-building-planting-stocking-and-maintaining-a-backyard-water-garden/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-water-gardeners-bible-a-step-by-step-guide-to-building-planting-stocking-and-maintaining-a-backyard-water-garden/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:17:14 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=833 The Water Gardener’s Bible: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building, Planting, Stocking, and Maintaining a Backyard Water Garden

Whether it is a small container of water on a deck or patio serving as home to a few plants and water creatures or a more elaborate mix of waterfalls, fountains, rockwork, and lighting, the water garden can be a lovely, spirit-soothing addition to one’s property—a place to unwind, relax, and escape the cares of the world.

But while water has been a prominent feature in garden designs for thousands of years, it is only recently—with the availability of preformed kits at the local home improvement center—that installing a beautiful water garden has become a feasible undertaking for the average homeowner. And now, with the extremely clear and complete instructions in this practical, hands-on guide, a backyard water garden is easier than ever to build and maintain.

This is a true bible on the subject—with comprehensive information on everything from choosing the right site and selecting aquatic plants and fish to pond management and problem solving. The pages are crammed with specifics about pond biology and chemistry, beneficial bacteria, fish health, nuisance algae, and electrical and child safety—all that is necessary to duplicate the sights, sounds, and sanctuary of a babbling brook, splashing fountain, or cascading waterfall right in the backyard.



]]> http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-water-gardeners-bible-a-step-by-step-guide-to-building-planting-stocking-and-maintaining-a-backyard-water-garden/feed/ 0 Complete Guide to Water Gardens: Ponds, Fountains, Waterfalls, Streams http://gardeningandlawncare.com/complete-guide-to-water-gardens-ponds-fountains-waterfalls-streams/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/complete-guide-to-water-gardens-ponds-fountains-waterfalls-streams/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:16:50 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=821 Complete Guide to Water Gardens: Ponds, Fountains, Waterfalls, Streams

Complete Guide to Water Gardens is a comprehensive guide to designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal. Readers will learn about site selection and construction materials and methods. They will receive information on pumps, filters, lighting, and other accessories. The book also explains how to install streams, waterfalls, fountains, and statues, as well as how to design bridges and stepping-stones. Complete Guide to Water Gardens also includes information on maintaining water quality and selecting fish and plants. Beautifully illustrated, including step-by-step sequences and instructions, this book shows readers all they need to know in order to create and maintain the water garden of their dreams.

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]]> http://gardeningandlawncare.com/complete-guide-to-water-gardens-ponds-fountains-waterfalls-streams/feed/ 0 The Complete Guide to Water Gardens, Ponds & Fountains Reviews http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-complete-guide-to-water-gardens-ponds-fountains-reviews/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-complete-guide-to-water-gardens-ponds-fountains-reviews/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:16:39 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=818 The Complete Guide to Water Gardens, Ponds & Fountains

An updated, expanded edition of Creative Homeowner’s comprehensive guide to water gardens, Complete Guide to Water Gardens, Ponds & Fountains provides essential information on designing and installing all types of home water gardens, from naturalistic to formal, plus fountains, waterfalls, streams, and bog gardens. Readers will learn how to construct each of these structures, as well as how to design bridges and stepping-stones. Special sections on aquatic plants, fish, and other pond inhabitants bring life to these essential garden features. Beautifully illustrated with dozens of inspiring landscape photographs, plus step-by-step sequences and instructions, the book shows readers all they need to know to create and maintain the water garden of their dreams.

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]]> http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-complete-guide-to-water-gardens-ponds-fountains-reviews/feed/ 0 Natural Enemies Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control (Publication (University of California (System). Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources), 3386.) Reviews http://gardeningandlawncare.com/natural-enemies-handbook-the-illustrated-guide-to-biological-pest-control-publication-university-of-california-system-division-of-agriculture-and-natural-resources-3386-reviews/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/natural-enemies-handbook-the-illustrated-guide-to-biological-pest-control-publication-university-of-california-system-division-of-agriculture-and-natural-resources-3386-reviews/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:13:40 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=809 Natural Enemies Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Biological Pest Control (Publication (University of California (System). Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources), 3386.)

This book is the best-ever practical guide to the identification and biology of beneficial organisms that control pests. Growers, pest control advisers, landscape professionals, home gardeners, pest management teachers and students, and anyone fascinated by natural enemies and their prey will want this book to find, identify, and use natural enemies to control pests in almost any agricultural crop, garden, or landscape.
The Natural Enemies Handbook is superbly illustrated with 180 high-quality color photographs and 140 expertly rendered drawings, showing hundreds of predators, parasites, and pathogens that attack pest insects, mites, nematodes, plant pathogens, and weeds. The handy Quick Guide allows readers to locate natural enemies that they are likely to find on almost any crop or in the garden and landscape. They can then go to the main text for clear, detailed information.
Natural enemies are organisms that kill, decrease the reproductive potential, or otherwise reduce the numbers of other organisms. Biological control is the practical use of natural enemies to manage pests. Living natural enemies are the agents of biological control. Virtually every pest has natural enemies that reduce its populations under certain circumstances. The book features chapters on biological control of plant pathogens, nematodes, and weeds as well as individual chapters on parasites, predators, and pathogens of arthropods.
References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this an indispensable source book. The up-to-date review of applied biological control literature will appeal to scholars.

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Dealing with a sick plant is one of the most frustrating situations a gardener can face. More often than not, we have no idea what is causing the problem, or how to fix it. Fortunately, help is at hand. What’s Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?) provides an easy system for visually diagnosing any problem, and matching it to the right cure.

This innovative and easy-to-use guide is split into three parts.

Part One presents easy-to-follow, illustrated flow charts—organized by  where on the plant the symptoms appear—that allow readers to accurately diagnose the problem. The format is so simple it doesn’t even require knowing the name of the plant; all you need to know is whether the problem is affecting its roots, stem, flowers, or leaves. It does not matter whether the plant is a houseplant, perennial, vegetable, tree, or shrub.

Part Two offers a 100% organic way to fix the problem.  From improper growing conditions and environmental factors, to molds, pests, and diseases, every problem has a safe, natural solution.

Part Three shows photographs and drawings of stressed, damaged, and diseased plants that help with accurate comparison.

Whether your garden consists of herbs on a kitchen windowsill, a vegetable garden, an elaborate backyard border, or a container on a patio, What’s Wrong With My Plant? is an indispensable resource. If you can see it, you can fix it. Curing a sick plant just doesn’t get any easier.

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]]> http://gardeningandlawncare.com/whats-wrong-with-my-plant-and-how-do-i-fix-it-a-visual-guide-to-easy-diagnosis-and-organic-remedies/feed/ 0 The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way (Rodale Organic Gardening Books) http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-organic-gardeners-handbook-of-natural-pest-and-disease-control-a-complete-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-garden-and-yard-the-earth-friendly-way-rodale-organic-gardening-books-2/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-organic-gardeners-handbook-of-natural-pest-and-disease-control-a-complete-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-garden-and-yard-the-earth-friendly-way-rodale-organic-gardening-books-2/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:11:36 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=746 The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way (Rodale Organic Gardening Books)

With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the latest science-based recommendations for battling garden problems. With all-new photos of common and recently introduced pests and plant diseases, you can quickly identify whether you’ve discovered garden friend or foe and what action, if any, you should take.

No other reference includes a wider range of methods for growing and maintaining an organic garden. The plant-by-plant guide features symptoms and solutions for 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits. The insect-and-disease encyclopedia includes a photo identification guide and detailed descriptions of damage readers may see. The extensive coverage of the most up-to-date organic control techniques and products, presented in order of lowest impact to most intensive intervention, makes it easy to choose the best control.

 



]]> http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-organic-gardeners-handbook-of-natural-pest-and-disease-control-a-complete-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-garden-and-yard-the-earth-friendly-way-rodale-organic-gardening-books-2/feed/ 0 The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way (Rodale Organic Gardening Books) http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-organic-gardeners-handbook-of-natural-pest-and-disease-control-a-complete-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-garden-and-yard-the-earth-friendly-way-rodale-organic-gardening-books/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/the-organic-gardeners-handbook-of-natural-pest-and-disease-control-a-complete-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-garden-and-yard-the-earth-friendly-way-rodale-organic-gardening-books/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:11:08 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=734 The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control: A Complete Guide to Maintaining a Healthy Garden and Yard the Earth-Friendly Way (Rodale Organic Gardening Books)

With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener’s Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the latest science-based recommendations for battling garden problems. With all-new photos of common and recently introduced pests and plant diseases, you can quickly identify whether you’ve discovered garden friend or foe and what action, if any, you should take.

No other reference includes a wider range of methods for growing and maintaining an organic garden. The plant-by-plant guide features symptoms and solutions for 200 popular plants, including flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs, and fruits. The insect-and-disease encyclopedia includes a photo identification guide and detailed descriptions of damage readers may see. The extensive coverage of the most up-to-date organic control techniques and products, presented in order of lowest impact to most intensive intervention, makes it easy to choose the best control.

 

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Easy-to-follow shed designs with loads of color examples.

The new edition of this classic do-it-yourself guide for backyard builders now contains more material and photographs than ever.

Sheds helps the do-it-yourself builder think through all the issues involved in designing and building a shed: intended use, size, cost, placement, degree of construction difficulty, and much more. Following a chapter on construction basics, the authors preview each step of building a beautiful and useful shed — from foundation to cupola, and everything in between.

Sheds contains:

  • Material lists
  • Cost estimates
  • Step-by-step illustrations
  • New tips and hints
  • Detailed instructions
  • Schedules
  • 16 pages of color.

Packed with detailed illustrations, plans and commonsense advice, this new edition of the classic book on building a shed is like having a professional carpenter beside you, making the project easy to control and successful.

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]]> http://gardeningandlawncare.com/sheds-the-do-it-yourself-guide-for-backyard-builders-reviews/feed/ 0 10×12 Shed Plans – How To Build Guide – Step By Step – Garden / Utility / Storage http://gardeningandlawncare.com/10x12-shed-plans-how-to-build-guide-step-by-step-garden-utility-storage/ http://gardeningandlawncare.com/10x12-shed-plans-how-to-build-guide-step-by-step-garden-utility-storage/#respond Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:34:20 +0000 http://www.theplrstore.com/blogs/lawn-and-garden/?p=289 10×12 Shed Plans – How To Build Guide – Step By Step – Garden / Utility / Storage

  • Complete Materials List, Detailed, Step-By-Step Instructions, & Cutting List and Framing Plans
  • Detailed Drawings and Layouts with Footing Plans for ALL Site Types and Elevations
  • Multiple Elevation Drawings and Window / Door Placements
  • Multiple Design Variants Standard (Different locations for doors/windows) it’s like getting 7 plans for the price of one!
  • Shipped Lightning Fast On A High Capacity CD ROM

Shed Features

Gable Roof Style
12′ Wide x 10′ Deep
7′-7 3/4″ High Walls
11′-7 1/4″ High Peak
3′ 4″ Wide Single Door and/or 5′ Wide Double Doors

Every set of plans that we offer includes every detail that you need to construct a high quality, beautiful structure that you will enjoy for years to come, while saving considerable time and money and using only basic, readily available tools. Our plans improve the value of your property and create additional storage space!



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A modern guide to classic outdoor structures.

Sheds and other landscape shelters have never been out of style, but they are now seeing a remarkable surge in popularity, and are being used in creative new ways. The common garden shed is now just as likely to serve as a workshop for an artist to pursue his or her hobby; or may be used as a writerÆs retreat; or may even be equipped with a satellite dish, high definition television, recliners, and used as a meeting spot for Sunday afternoon football parties. In many parts of the country, spacious sheds are being fully appointed with furnishings and used as detached rooms for everyday living or as backyard offices.

This book offers readers fuel for their aspirations but also provides practical information for planning and building sheds of all types. Although the basics of stick-building are covered, the book focuses more on the most common consumer option: ordering and buying a kit shed, working from blueprint plans, and customizing the shed to individual needs.

  • Features a planning and design section to help readers create unique shed projects
  • General technique chapter provides an in-depth overview of each step in shed construction
  • Includes easy-to-follow plans and directions for 12 sheds covering all design options
  • Bonus appendix includes a dozen advanced shed plans that can be special-ordered
  • More than three times as many complete plans than any other sheds book
A modern guide to classic outdoor structures.

Sheds and other landscape shelters have never been out of style, but they are now seeing a remarkable surge in popularity, and are being used in creative new ways. The common garden shed is now just as likely to serve as a workshop for an artist to pursue his or her hobby; or may be used as a writerÆs retreat; or may even be equipped with a satellite dish, high definition television, recliners, and used as a meeting spot for Sunday afternoon football parties. In many parts of the country, spacious sheds are being fully appointed with furnishings and used as detached rooms for everyday living or as backyard offices.

This book offers readers fuel for their aspirations but also provides practical information for planning and building sheds of all types. Although the basics of stick-building are covered, the book focuses more on the most common consumer option: ordering and buying a kit shed, working from blueprint plans, and customizing the shed to individual needs.

  • Features a planning and design section to help readers create unique shed projects
  • General technique chapter provides an in-depth overview of each step in shed construction
  • Includes easy-to-follow plans and directions for 12 sheds covering all design options
  • Bonus appendix includes a dozen advanced shed plans that can be special-ordered
  • More than three times as many complete plans than any other sheds book

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Our E-Z Frame kit comes with 98 plastic resin brackets. Easy to assemble instructions! (2×2 lumber and cover material not included) Our easy to assemble kit makes it easy for anyone to assemble in less than a couple of hours, with no angle lumber cuts necessary. Just stop by your local Hardware store and pick up a couple bundles of 8 foot 2×2 lumber, make the required cuts off the cut list, and put it together. Think you might need to move it in the future? The shed is fastened using screws making it just as easy disassemble in the future. Featured here is our basic E-Z Frame 8X16 structure with 6 foot high sidewalls and door assembly. Kit as shown here comes complete with all brackets – made of UV resistant, very durable plastic resin material and easy to follow assembly instructions. Once assembled, cover in your choice of materials, plastic, Plexiglas, or corrugated plastic panels. The basic E-Z Frame structure can be used for other purposes also….. cover in tarps, metal, wood siding or chicken wire for use as storage or your things or equipment, cars, boats, chickens or a playhouse. We are always available for questions. Please feel free to contact us anytime. If you do not see a size that suits your needs on any of our listings, please feel free to contact us to place a custom order.

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