Starting Seeds Indoors: Part 4
Transplanting To reduce injury to young seedlings during transplanting, handle them as carefully as possible. It is better to pick up a young seedling by the leaves (while at the same time supporting the root system) rather than by the stem, ... [... more]
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Tales From The Underground: A Natural History Of ...
 From Amazon.com: Step into your backyard, David Wolfe suggests at the outset of this engaging book, and push your thumb and index finger into the root zone of a patch of grass. The pinch of soil you bring up will be a world of its own: "You will [... more]
CDN$27.50
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Natural Goodness
Brilliant, appealing, ultimately unsatisfying: I agree with most everything in this elegant, well-reasoned book. Unfortunately, I think, it will convince no one not already of like mind--and rightly should not. Foot's thesis is that "good" [... more]
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Orchids: A Complete Guide to Cultivation and Care
True Beginners & Beginners w/ High Aspirations: As a windowsill orchid hobbyist who already owns a few beginner's books, I found this one to be beautifully designed with gorgeous photos and photographic step-by-step directions on full repotting ( [... more]
CDN$22.99
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How To Grow More Vegetables
Disappointed with purchase: First, 1/3 of this book is bibliography, ie. stuff I most probably have no use for. Secondly its a very dated book, lots of line drawings (not very good ones at that) that looks old, and no photos. Also its a very hard book to [... more]
CDN$20.02
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Container Gardening
New Flowers for a New Home: Although I've read a number of gardening books, I seem to have been having terrible luck with one container garden. Finally, I tossed all the soil and read this book. After realizing the draining system was not in place, not [... more]
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Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory
There is a lot here for such a short book: This book is a pretty good introduction to the theory of Lie algebras and their representations, and its importance cannot be overstated, due to the myriads of applications of Lie algebras to physics, [... more]
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How To Grow More Vegetables 7th Ed
Disappointed with purchase: First, 1/3 of this book is bibliography, ie. stuff I most probably have no use for. Secondly its a very dated book, lots of line drawings (not very good ones at that) that looks old, and no photos. Also its a very hard book to [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Kush, the Jewel of Nubia: Reconnecting the Root System ...
Objective Afrocentricity vs Biased Eurocentricity!: Any objecive, unbiased and well argued book on African civilizations or history deserves a 5 star for me: the reason being simple, there are not many of such books in the world! Ms Monges has presented [... more]
CDN$22.87
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The Lie Algebras su(N): An Introduction
An excellent practical guide: This short book covers an important aspect that has been neglected by most textbooks on Lie algebras written for physicists, namely providing a comprehensible introduction for undergraduates based on detailed examples, [... more]
CDN$63.01
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Easy Orchids: Simple Secrets for Glorious ...
Mostly Great Book for Beginners: I think the oddest thing that confronts new orchid owners is learning that, unlike most other types of plants, most orchids cannot all be treated the same way. The various species or varieties of, for example, ferns and [... more]
CDN$17.95
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
Cavorting in the canopy: They're almost impossible to see properly. If you're near the base in a neck-cricking stance, the tops are lost in a maze of foliage. At at distance, its cousins and offspring surround the one you want to consider. One redwood in [... more]
CDN$32.00
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