Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Free Outdoor Kindle Books 4-2-13

From the top 100 free list

Raised Bed Gardening: How To Grow Vegetables and Food With Easy, Simple Raised Bed Garden Designs (Gardening Guidebooks)

How To Grow Vegetables and Food With Raised Bed Gardens

I Believe Every Person On This Planet Can Grow Healthy Food Using These Proven Raised Bed Gardening Techniques

You could be just months away from a harvest of delicious, fresh organic food from your raised bed garden. Learn how to:

Grow A Great Raised Bed Garden That Will Make Your Friends Jealous

Whether you have a tiny yard or a lot of space, a raised bed can help you grow delicious, healthy, organic vegetables and foods for youand your family.

Grow Vegetables And Fresh Food With Your Garden

The options are almost endless if you'd like to learn container gardening to grow fresh organic fruits and vegetables for you and your family. You can grow tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, spinach, collards, head and leaf lettuces, bok choy, herbs including rosemary, basil, parsley, cilantro, scallions, green onion and much more!

Fertilize, Water and Care For Your Plants Easily

Included in the book are step-by-step tutorials and instructions for proper fertilizer use, the proven system for proper plant watering and general plant maintenance to make it both easy and fun to care for your new home garden. Gardening doesn't have to be hard!

Fascinating And Unique Container Gardens That Will Dazzle Your Guests

Are you looking for that extra special plant or garden that will wow and amaze your house guests? Included in the book are instructions for unique and beautiful terrariums, japanese gardens, the mystical bonsai trees, scintillating succulent gardens and even cute little cactus gardens. You don't have to grow the same old plants like everyone else - you can grow something entirely new and exciting!

A List Of The Twenty Most Beautiful And Easy To Grow Plants

Some plants just thrive extremely well in container gardens and look gorgeous to boot! Learn about coleus, bogonias, wishbone flower and dozens of other plants that are perfect for growing in containers.

How To Start A Garden For Beginners

Whether you're a complete beginner or just want to learn more, this gardening guidebook will teach you everything you need to know to enjoy the fruits of your own special garden. Every section includes action steps, pictures and step by step tutorials so you will know what to do and how to do it to create your perfect garden.

Special Section On Aeroponic Vertical Gardening

You'll learn how to start your own aeroponics vertical garden for less than a few hundred dollars. In the past, aeroponics and hydroponics systems were only available to the wealthy and those with extensive knowledge of agriculture and hydroponics.

Want A Beautiful Home Garden Like This?

If you're looking for gardening books on kindle and you're ready to start a container garden, this is the book for you!

Ready to start gardening? Let's go!

Learn how to grow an extraordinary container garden now.

[#48 on the list. 3 reviews - all 5 star.]

In this book, I answer the question "is self-sufficiency really possible on one acre of land?" 

One-Acre Homestead features a simplified permaculture design for a one acre farm that produces the majority of the resident's food. This design is not based on fancy, aesthetic gardening techniques, but on practical workable methods that I have used on my homestead. This design is meant to explain the importance of creating zones that will be dedicated to different purposes in the garden, and to encourage planning ahead with slow but steady progress in mind.

The design lays the foundation for a basic one-acre production system. 
Instead of investing in expensive livestock, I recommend that homesteaders raise poultry, practice forest gardening and grow trees for biomass production in order to practice a no-till, sustainable gardening system. I explain why the homestead doesn't have to provide 100% of everything a family uses in order to be self-sufficient, but gardening zones should be established so that production can be maximized to meet the majority of a family's food needs in a crisis year.

I discuss the notion of self-sufficiency in terms financial independence and sustainable food production, urging readers to reconsider their perspectives about the economy, take back their workday and put their energy to use by increasing the value of their own households. The purpose of this book is to help beginners start planning long-term for their one acre homestead. I use my own experience over the past 5 years as a guide, and refer to methods that have worked for me in the humid southeastern US. This book will not go into exhaustive detail of all of the possible methods of alternative gardening. There are many excellent sources already available on these subjects. 

This book is broken into 3 parts
I. My story
II. The basic design process with lots of photos and reasoning for each step of the plan
III. Home economics tips

5 star:(6)
4 star:(6)
3 star:(3)
2 star:(4)
1 star:(0)

[#87 on the list - reviews are pretty mixed. The less flattering ones might be more useful than the 4 and 5 star reviews.]


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