Gardening Basics For Dummies. Steven A. Frowine

Culinary Herbs You Can Grow Planting Herbs: A Lesson in Adaptation Taking Care of Your Herbs Chapter 18: Sweet and Crunchy: Growing Fruits, Berries, and Nuts Choosing the Fruits for Your Garden Finding and Buying Your Fruit Bearers Planting Your Fruit Taking Care of Fruits

      9  Part 5: Designing Special and Fun Gardens Chapter 19: Mini Gardens and Microcosms: Gardening in Containers Exploring Different Kinds of Containers Getting the Container Soil Right Picking Plants for Your Containers Arranging Containers for a Container Garden Taking Care of Your Container Plants Chapter 20: Taking the Plunge: Gardening with Ponds and Fish Planning Your Water Garden Picking Out Your Parts and Supplies Installing and Filling Your Pond Choosing Plants for Water Gardens Adding Goldfish to Your Water Garden Maintaining Your Water Garden

      10  Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 21: Ten Great Perennials for Northern Climate Gardeners Achillea Astilbe False Indigo (Baptisia) Bellflower (Campanula) Coneflower (Echinacea) Ox-Eye Sunflower (Heliopsis) Plantain Lily (Hosta) Rose Campion (Lychnis Coronaria) Catmint (Nepeta) Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia Fulgida) Chapter 22: Ten Garden Projects for Children Create a Dinosaur Garden Grow a Sunflower Fort Make Sunprints Plant Mini-Pumpkins Write with Seeds Trap a Zucchini Make a Home-Grown Salad Grow Paperwhites Set Up a Birdbath Attract Butterflies to the Garden

      11  Appendix A: Basic Gardening Resources Examining Gardening Information Online Turning to U.S. University Resources Referring to Gardening Organizations Canadian Gardening Frost Dates by Region

      12  Appendix B: English-Metric Conversion Tables

      13  Index

      14  About the Author

      15  Advertisement Page

      16  Supplemental Images

      17  Connect with Dummies

      18  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 4TABLE 4-1 Plant Nutrients in the Air and WaterTABLE 4-2 Differences between Natural and Chemical FertilizersTABLE 4-3 Pounds of Limestone Needed to Raise pH (per 1,0000 Square Feet)TABLE 4-4 Pounds of Sulfur Needed to Lower pH (per 1,000 Square Feet)TABLE 4-5 Comparing Mulching Options

      2 Chapter 6TABLE 6-1 Appearance and Habits of Annuals

      3 Chapter 7TABLE 7-1 When Perennials Bloom

      4 Chapter 11TABLE 11-1 Cool-Season, Northern GrassesTABLE 11-2 Warm-Season, Southern GrassesTABLE 11-3 Grass Seed Amounts and Time until Germination

      5 Chapter 12TABLE 12-1 Common Needled Evergreens

      6 Chapter 15TABLE 15-1 Ideal Seasons for Growing Vegetables

      7 Chapter 16TABLE 16-1 Vegetarian Bugs, Grubs, Slugs, and Other Critters

      8 Chapter 17TABLE 17-1 Pests and the Herbs They Dine On

      9 Chapter 18TABLE 18-1 Chill Requirements of Fruit and Nut Plants

      10 Appendix ATABLE A-1 Canadian Frost Dates

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: The basic parts of a perennial plant, above and below ground. FIGURE 1-2: Flowers come