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Format:	Book
Title:	Beginner gardening step by step.
Edition:	New edition, American edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : DK, 2024.
Description:	255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	Want to create a garden you can enjoy? Not sure where to begin? Beginner Gardening Step by Step is your foolproof companion to creating a flourishing garden. Packed full of creative ideas with simple step-by-step instructions and clear images, this book teaches the basics you need to care for lawns, shrubs, flowers, and vegetables. Just pick up this books and get gardening!
Target Audience Note:	0 Lexile.
Subjects:	Gardening -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other Title:	Beginner gardening step by step : a visual guide to yard and garden basics
Notes:	Includes index.
ISBN:	9780744092318
Other Number:	1401654912
System Availability:	1
# Local items:	1
Call Number:	635 Beginne, Beginner
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Gardening is one of those hobbies that people are perennially keen to pick up, but it can be challenging to discern the vital things one needs to know as a beginner from the wealth of detailed information available. The wide range of full, in-depth books on the many specific aspects of gardening can make it challenging to know where to start, which makes this all-in-one introduction so useful. Chapters on getting started and on practicalities bookend nine sections on particular types of plants, each of which consists of two-to-four-page guides to the most common tasks required for that plant. Each of these guides includes a list of required tools and supplies, step-by-step instructions accompanied by large color photographs, and references with page numbers to related tasks. Jargon-buster tips define key terms and phrases and explain in a few words why they are important. For those wishing to get started growing flowers and foliage, lawns, climbers, shrubs, grasses, small trees, vegetables, herbs, or fruit, this is an excellent and easy-to-use resource.--Anne Heidemann Copyright 2019 Booklist

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Are you surrounded by weeds? Is your lawn forlorn? Are your bushes diseased? Do you long to create an outdoor space you can enjoy with friends - a garden you can proudly show off?

Beginner Gardening step by step shows you the basics needed to get your green space under control and keep it that way. Drawing on the world-renowned expertise of the Royal Horticultural Society, the book is packed full of creative ideas with lots of simple step-by-step instructions and clear images to help you realize your garden's potential, no matter the size and scale.

Get to know your garden and choose plants that will grow well in particular soil types and conditions year after year. From planting and training decorative climbers to designing seasonal hanging basket displays and growing your own tomatoes, these are the small jobs that will make a huge difference to how your garden looks and feels.

Get your gardening gloves on and dig in to discover:

-Bitesized visual content broken down into sections such as flowers, lawns, shrubs, and herbs, the book contains over 100 photographic step-by-step sequences.
-A gardening book ideal for first-time gardeners looking for guidance and inspiration as they start out on their own gardening

Take the anxiety out of planting, potting, and pruning, and make the most of your precious patch of land.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	6
	Getting Started
	Which way does your garden face?	10
	Know your soil	12
	Improving your soil	16
	Choosing the right potting soil	18
	Choosing healthy plants	20
	Flowers & Foliage
	Sowing seeds outdoors	24
	Sowing seeds indoors	26
	Growing plants that last	28
	Growing sunflowers	30
	Preparing pots for planting	34
	Plant up a colorful container	36
	Make a spring hanging basket	38
	Planting a shady window box	40
	Planting bulbs in a pot	42
	Making a border	44
	Making raised beds and edges	50
	Choosing flowers and foliage for spring containers	54
	Choosing flowers and foliage for summer containers	56
	Lawns
	Laying sod	60
	Sowing grass seed	62
	How to make a lawn edging	64
	Growing bulbs in grass	68
	Caring for your lawn	70
	Climbers
	Planting a climber	76
	Potting up climbers	78
	Planting an obelisk	80
	Create a tower of climbers	82
	Make an ivy topiary ball	84
	Build a rose arch	88
	Pruning a rose arch	92
	Pruning a rose on a wall	94
	Pruning wisteria	98
	Cutting back ivy	100
	Raise new plants by layering	102
	Choosing climbers for spring interest	104
	Choosing climbers for summer interest	106
	Shrubs
	Planting a shrub	110
	Planting a shrub in a pot	112
	Planting a bare-root rose	116
	Pruning an early summer-flowering shrub	118
	Lightly pruning shrubs	120
	Pruning a shrub rose	122
	Pruning hydrangea	124
	Pruning lavender	128
	Pruning for winter stems	130
	Planting a hedge	132
	Trimming a hedge	134
	Making a topiary cone	136
	Repotting a shrub	138
	Choosing shrubs for year-round interest	140
	Choosing shrubs for autumn interest	142
	Grasses
	Planting grasses in the ground	146
	Caring for grasses	148
	Cutting back grasses	152
	Dividing grasses	154
	Choosing grasses	156
	Small Trees
	Planting a tree	160
	Removing a branch	166
	Moving a tree or shrub	168
	Choosing trees for small gardens	170
	Vegetables
	Growing seeds in trays	174
	Sowing seeds in small pots	178
	Growing vegetables from plug plants	180
	Raising lettuces on a windowsill	182
	Growing tomatoes	184
	Growing climbing beans	186
	Growing root crops	190
	Growing early potatoes	192
	Growing potatoes in a trash can	194
	Herbs
	Growing herbs from seed	198
	Planting an herb garden	204
	Planting an herb hanging basket	206
	Making a lavender hedge	208
	Growing herbs from cuttings	210
	Dividing herbs	214
	Fruit
	Planting a basket of strawberries	218
	Planting an apple tree in a pot	220
	Pruning an apple tree	224
	Soft fruit in small spaces	226
	Tree fruit in small spaces	228
	Practicalities
	Watering plants	232
	Making your own compost	234
	How and when to prune	236
	Caring for your tools	238
	Troubleshooting weeds	242
	Dealing with pests	244
	Preventing diseases	246
	Know your garden friends	248
	Index	250
	Acknowledgments	256

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