Shawna Coronado

No-Waste Organic Gardening

Eco-friendly Solutions to Improve any Garden

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Produktbeschreibung

In this second book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, learn how to recycle and repurpose your way to a successful, productive, and eco-friendly organic garden!

In No-Waste Organic Gardening, author Shawna Coronado guides you toward a more sustainable landscape with dozens of tips, tricks, and solutions that save you time and money-all while saving the planet, too! A revision of Shawna's previous title,101 Organic Gardening Hacks, this new book tackles waste-reducing gardening in a clever, accessible way.

Learn how to:
Turn yard debris into "black gold" in a DIY compost binFoster rich, healthy soil with no-till techniques and all-natural fertilizersUpcycle household discards to grow seedlingsControl pests with traps made from household discardsBuild a rain barrel from an old trash canMix up your own potting soil to reduce plastic bag wasteProtect spring plantings with repurposed jugs, jars, and containersBuild a new raised bed witheveryday items-no power tools required!
Plus, you'll find solutions to common garden problems and plenty of innovative and resourceful ways to reduce your outgoing waste. Conquering the increasingly important art of responsible gardening is a whole lot easier than you might think, with help from No-Waste Organic Gardening.
For more advice on living waste-free, explore the first book in the No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.

Produktdetails

• No-Waste Gardening
• Verlag: Cool Springs Press / Quarto Publishing Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 334684
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 171mm x 245mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780760367643
• ISBN-10: 0760367647
• Artikelnr.: 57121977

Autorenporträt

Shawna Coronado is an author, on-camera spokesperson, newspaper columnist, internationally recognized keynote speaker, and environmental and health correspondent. She has lectured for TEDx and Google, appears regularly on US national television, and spends her time educating the online community about eco-travel, green living, sustainable gardening, inexpensive cooking, and home vegetable production—all from her very own home and ornamental front-lawn garden. Shawna's photographs and stories on organic living have been featured on HGTV.com, in Birds & Blooms magazine, and in the books  The Green Garden, Grocery Gardening, The Edible Front Yard, and Garden Up! . She is the author of Cool Springs Press' Illinois Getting Started Garden Guide (2014), Indiana Getting Started Garden Guide (2014), The Wellness Garden (2017), and 101 Organic Gardening Hacks (2017). 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Concept of No-Waste Gardening
Soil Secrets
Garden Maintenance
Pollinator Power
Seeds and Seedling Starting
Florific Blooms
Growing Edibles
Container Gardening
Landscape Ideas
Outdoor Living Ideas
Tool Tips
Dedication and acknowledgments
Meet Shawna Coronado
Index

Rezensionen

"...an excellent introductory book to waste-free organic gardening." Susan Bewley Budget Earth 20200331