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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Best Vegetable Recipes
Even if the nearest fresh vegetables are only in the local supermarket, color outside the lines a bit and try something new.The editors at Cook's Illustrated have compiled some of the best recipes tailored to each vegetable.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Complete Book of Gourd Craft
Techniques for attaching handles, hinges and embellishments are easy to understand and even a beginner can follow them without much effort. From the dawn of history, humans have used these hard-shelled cucurbits for many purposes.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: A Rose by Any Name
Regardless, roses were touted to cure everything from baldness, pallid complexions and 'female hysteria', to rabies. This book would make a great gift for any rose lover and a nice addition to every gardening library.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Plants of Colonial Williamsburg
It explains botanical classifications and Latin terms in a way that even the novice will understand.Readers on both sides of the ‘Pond' will be interested in the dates of introduction and in many cases, documentation of the person or persons who were...
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El Segundo
Fun feature: Dave\'s Garden Book Review
Proud British Sheddists show off their individuality and their sheds are singular examples of human creativity. He explains that for sheds to appear, a highly developed civilization must be in place.Sheds have been used through the ages as storage areas...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Rabbit Hill
Their hopes and fears are in character and plausible. We hope this spotlight on some of our members' favorites is a nice change of pace for your Saturday morning. It is well crafted, humorous and heart touching.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Appalachian Basketmaking
One of the most distinctive types of basket is the white oak baskets crafted by the Appalachian peoples and those living in the surrounding region. The color plates show off beautiful natural dyed designs.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Complete Herb Book
There are also suggested designs for various herb gardens and varieties suggested for aromatherapy, herbal bath, salads, medicinal, cooking and natural dyes. She notes each plant's native area and when its first recorded use is noted, so historians will...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: How to Know the Ferns
Most of these guides are devoted to various plants, but I also have guides for birds and insects...and a whole shelf just for weeds!This is where it all started, this humble little book published decades before my parents were born.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Pomegranate Roads
His patience and grit were finally rewarded and he was assigned as a botanist to a remote Soviet agricultural post at Garrigala, in what is now Turkmenistan. We hope this spotlight on some of our members' favorites is a nice change of pace for your Saturday...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Joy of Foraging
Safety is paramount throughout the book and I commend Mr. Lincoff for keeping us aware of this at all times. I didn't know what it was, but it's something that has been a part of my life since I was a child.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden
Add your own review and check out the member reviews of her book. For those unfamiliar with the diversity of tomato flavors, there are even detailed descriptions of how each tomato tastes.
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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Garden Club of America
It is an extraordinary organization that has emerged into the 21This quote from Mrs. They were among the first to refuse to purchase wild-harvested plants and urged garden vendors to disclose their sources.The Garden Club of America standardized flower...
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El Segundo
Fun feature: Dave\'s Garden Book Review
Some insects are ‘double-agents'. At one time or another, all gardeners stand and contemplate a mystery insect, wondering if it is friend or foe. Insects with similar appearance or habit are grouped together.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Pine Needle Basketry
Over forty basket patterns, with images are listed and she even lists materials needed and the page numbers where the particular techniques for that basket are used.There is also a helpful page listing the various pine species, continent of origin and...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Market Gardener
The planning and dedication that takes something from seed to table is staggering and we should thank every farmer's market vendor for their service.He lays out detailed plans for rotating crops, which ones are heavy feeders, which ones are not and even...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: 20,000 Secrets of Tea
Any potential problems or reactions are listed and caution is urged when using a number of herbs. Even before written history, teas were used to heal aliments, attract a lover, or dispel 'demons'.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Tough Plants for Southern Gardens
It would make a great gift for a beginning gardener or one who was downsizing the amount of work they had to put into their property. This book is also unique in that it has a section for plants normally grown in containers, which Mr. Rushing lovingly...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Insect Wonderland
But as her poetry attests;The beautiful pen and ink illustrations, with color, are vintage examples of the type of work popular in the middle of the 20Century and they remind me of the images John R.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Vegetables
There are also categories for Fried Vegetables, Grilled Vegetables, Braised Vegetables, Sauces and Roasted Vegetables.While the cookbook focuses on vegetables, it isn't a vegetarian cookbook.
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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: The Busy Person\'s Guide to Preserving Food
Many books are written on food preservation, but few include instructions on properly drying, freezing or bottling your herb harvest. Bag up the ice cubes and keep them in your freezer.
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: A Guide to the Smithsonian Gardens
The Native American Garden respects traditions and spotlights native plants. For non-gardeners, they are magnificent backdrops for family photos destined to be cherished keepsakes.
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Dave\'s Garden Book Review: America\'s Romance with the English Garden
Both of these traditions can be traced back to traditional English gardens.Marketing efforts by the seed and nursery industry ‘sold' Americans on the idea of a lush, green expanse of turf, dotted with carefully placed trees and shrubs in the Nineteenth...
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El Segundo
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Understanding invasive habits prevents gardeners from introducing something aggressive to their environments.Weeds of the South, is not just for Southerners. It helps to know the name of my enemy.No control measures are offered, but identification is...
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El Segundo
Dave\'s Garden Book Review: Yards
The next thing to do is to make a list of what you want to do outside...do you want to entertain, have play areas, screen a busy street, or attract butterflies and hummingbirds? Personally, I'm looking forward to spring weather so that I can get out and...
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El Segundo
Fun feature: Dave\'s Garden Book Review
The challenges in Rose's life were difficult, but she managed to be successful, even though it was hard. She's a figure that most children would never study in school, but for any child who loves gardening, it would make a lovely little gift.Readers follow...
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El Segundo
Fun Feature: Making Compost in the Self-contained Toter Composter #3
Yep, I'm growing my own tea! Each planter got a nice layer of the new compost to act as mulch and release nutrients into the soil.I used the rest of my compost harvest in my Gronomics planters.
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El Segundo