PreviewsJanet Melrose
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Staying Alive
The Go-To Guide for Houseplants
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
This handy Q&A guide provides expert advice to ensure houseplants thrive, including information about choosing, repotting, splitting, and training plants, about the types of soil and water to use, and about how to tackle problems like insects, fungus, and general malaise.
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The Houseplanter
Your Go-To Growing Journal
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
The authors of the popular Guides for the Prairie Gardener series are back with this journal for keeping records of and plans for houseplant acquisitions and maintenance. It also includes tips on plant care and facts about houseplant history, names, and folklore.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Grasses
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
The 10th book of the popular series concisely covers what grasses to choose for what purposes, how to plant and protect grasses, and broader environmental issues, such as how grasses are important providers of habitat and food for wildlife and serve an integral role in erosion control.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Herbs
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
The ninth book of the popular series concisely covers what herbs to choose for what purposes, how to plant and protect herbs, and broader environmental issues, such as herbs’ potential for use in pest management and as medicinal and spiritually beneficial plants.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Pests and Diseases
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
This guide to trouble-shooting problems with weeds, insects, micro-organisms, rodents, birds, deer, and other common Prairie gardeners’ issues uses an integrated pest management approach, showing how to identify the problem and how to deter it, while respecting the broader environment.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Soil
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
Providing information on the composition of soil, how to choose appropriate soil, how to compost, and how to care for soil, this fifth book in the Guides for Prairie Gardeners series tells gardeners everything they need to know about soil.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Trees and Shrubs
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
This sixth book in the Guides for Prairie Gardeners series gives advice on how to grow trees and shrubs from the ground up, including information on planting and transplanting, cultivation and maintenance, care and protection from weather, pests, and disease, and choosing the right plant.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Vegetables
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
From planning to planting to harvesting vegetables such as onions, lettuce, carrots, celery, beets, corn, legumes, peppers, potatoes, squash and more, this Q & A–style guide covers common questions about cultivation practices, preventing damage from frost, flood, and drought, and harvest and storage.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To for Fruit
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
Whether interested in growing an orchard in a rural area, planting a couple of bushes or trees in a small urban yard, or growing edibles on a balcony, fruit gardeners will find this book invaluable. The authors cover planning, planting, and caring for fruit plants, dealing with pests and diseases, and harvesting and storing produce, and they provide information on mulching, fertilizing, watering, pruning, and propagation.
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The Prairie Gardener’s Go-To Guide for Perennials
Janet Melrose, Sheryl Normandeau
This new volume in the acclaimed Prairie Gardeners Go-To series focuses on garden flowers and vegetables whose stems and leaves die back to their crowns each fall but whose roots remain alive in the Prairie climate. The authors cover how to select and grow these perennials, and provide tips on watering, fertilizing, mulching, and deadheading them, diagnosing and treating problems, and promoting biodiversity to create a healthy habitat for pollinators and wildlife.
