Welcome to the City! - URBAN GARDENING
Introductory Article, explaining the goals of this topic area on Suite101. Gardening in the heart of the city with an Organic bent. Weekly articles on urban gardening, a discussion board, great links and MORE! Home » Plants & Animals » [... more]
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One Small Garden
 Amazon.ca: "We like to think we have the measure of the world. We like things to be tidy." But as Barbara Nichol demonstrates in One Small Garden, it's a jungle out there. A little girl alarms onlookers from the unsafe heights of a treetop; [... more]
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Urban Gardens: Plans and Planting Designs
Author: Ann-Marie Powell Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6 EAN: 9781844031535 ISBN: 1844031535 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2005-05-28 [... more]
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City Gardens: Creative Urban Gardens and Expert Design Ideas
Amazon.ca: City Gardens takes readers on a meandering garden tour of some of the lovely spaces hidden behind private gates across Canada. Editor Liz Primeau has compiled inspiring stories from the pages of Canadian Gardening magazine in a collection that [... more]
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The Urban Gardener: How To Grow Things Successfully On ...
Well focused and practical: The sub-title clearly explains the focus of this book. The writer, a Master Gardener and well-known Canadian garden writer, takes a very practical and down-to-earth (sorry about the pun) approach to the topic. This is a book [... more]
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Small Urban Gardens
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6 EAN: 9783822851418 ISBN: 3822851418 Number Of Pages: 191 Publication Date: 2006-03-01 [... more]
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The Urban Gardener Indoors: How to Grow Things ...
Limited: This book about growing plants indoors follows Sonia Day's highly regarded book The Urban Gardener: How to Grow Things Successfully on Balconies, Terraces, Decks. Growing plants indoors is a much more limited topic and unfortunately this is a [... more]
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Perennial Article Index
An A to Z list of articles in the Perennials topic area on Suite101. You can scan the list by common or latin names. As of April 23, 1999, this topic changed it's name from Urban Gardening to Perennials. Many of the Urban Gardening articles were ... [... more]
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Growing Potatoes -- Beginner Style!
Grow potatoes organically, in ground or in pots PLUS Lots of Links for the Potassium Starved. From Urban Gardening on Suite101, this is a primer on growing potatoes, in soil, or on the patio with straw or shredded paper. Includes potato links, ... [... more]
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Garden Gnomes and Anti-Gnomes
Gnomes in history and a present day look at kitsch in the garden Garden Gnomes; a short history of their use in the garden, why they were ever invented, and a look at the gnomes of tomorrow. From Urban Gardening -- weekly garden articles from the ... [... more]
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Pretty Thistles
Maybe because they're interesting, easy, and repellant in an attractive way? This may not be of much concern to the typical urban gardener, but it will interest some of our more rural friends that deer will not tolerate the prickles of thistles ... [... more]
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Going Native - Plants for the Rural Garden
The use of native plants can help to integrate a rural garden with the surrounding countryside. One difficulty encountered by those planning a rural garden is choosing plants which blend in well with the surrounding area. Urban gardens tend to be ... [... more]
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