Raised bed gardening is the perfect simple approach if you want to grow your own fruits and vegetables in an organic, sustainable way. BOOK 1- Introduction to Raised Bed Gardening is the ideal approach for getting started with gardening as many common and tiresome processes are eliminated altogether. In An Introduction to Raised Bed Gardening, you will discover: ● Why a raised bed garden is the right choice for your family ● The most optimum places you can position a raised bed garden ● Secrets for optimal yield that cost nothing to implement ● A comprehensive list of tools and supplies you'll need to get your plants to thrive ● Instruction for constructing your raised beds from scratch, even if DIY isn't your forte ● 10 kinds of plants that beginners can master from their first growth season ● When to plant your cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, and greens if you want maximum yield ● Completely organic fertilization and pest control strategies to keep your plants healthy and increase the quality of the produce ● The best soil care practices to give you amazing crops one season after the other ● 7 raised bed gardening challenges newbies will face, and simple strategies to eliminate each one And much more! And once you master that, you can move on to the next stage of your gardening adventure. BOOK 2- Advanced Raised Bed Gardening is the MUST-HAVE Guide to take your gardening efforts to the next level! In Advanced Raised Bed Gardening Guide, you will discover: ● The secret techniques farmers use to optimize yield that you can even apply to a DIY raised bed garden ● 6 advanced raised bed garden layouts you can master in just a few months ● 5 unconventional materials that can replace timber and stone in raised bed construction ● Advanced plant growing methodologies that improve soil quality and keep your crops healthy ● A foolproof strategy to plan year-round gardening for access to fresh, seasonal produce ● The secret to getting 10 "difficult" fruits and veggies to thrive in your garden ● Succession planting and other excellent raised bed gardening methods that will allow for a quick harvest ● How to enrich your soil without using chemicals or expensive commercial solutions And much more! Introduction to Raised Bed Gardening and Advanced Raised Bed Gardening belong to the GREEN FINGERED GARDENER SERIES that will teach you the ins and outs of all popular (as well as some niche) gardening approaches.

An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Starting your own garden in 5 dummy-proof steps and master and grow over 30 kinds of popular fruits and veggies for complete self-sufficiency. In An Introduction to Raised Bed Gardening, you will discover: ● Why a raised bed garden is the right choice for your family ● The most optimum places you can position a raised bed garden ● Secrets for optimal yield that cost nothing to implement ● A comprehensive list of tools and supplies you'll need to get your plants to thrive ● Instruction for constructing your raised beds from scratch, even if DIY isn't your forte ● 10 kinds of plants that beginners can master from their first growth season ● When to plant your cucumbers, tomatoes, strawberries, and greens if you want maximum yield ● Completely organic fertilization and pest control strategies to keep your plants healthy and increase the quality of the produce ● The best soil care practices to give you amazing crops one season after the other ● 7 raised bed gardening challenges newbies will face, and simple strategies to eliminate each one And much more! In Advanced Raised Bed Gardening Guide, you will discover: ● The secret techniques farmers use to optimize yield that you can even apply to a DIY raised bed garden ● 6 advanced raised bed garden layouts you can master in just a few months ● 5 unconventional materials that can replace timber and stone in raised bed construction ● Advanced plant growing methodologies that improve soil quality and keep your crops healthy ● A foolproof strategy to plan year-round gardening for access to fresh, seasonal produce ● The secret to getting 10 "difficult" fruits and veggies to thrive in your garden ● Succession planting and other excellent raised bed gardening methods that will allow for quick harvest ● How to enrich your soil without using chemicals or expensive commercial solutions And much more! Preliminary planning and a focus on the right techniques will quickly take your efforts to the next level, ensuring complete self-sufficiency and control over your food production. Needless to say, once you master that technique, you can move on to other gardening experiments. Advanced Raised Bed Gardening Guide belongs to a series of 10 books that will teach you the ins and outs of all popular (as well as some niche) gardening approaches. Be in charge of your food production-more natural, cleaner, and nutritionally-superior produce to what supermarkets have to offer await you.

Nowadays, distributed software development has become more common. In a distributed project setting, managing experience is even more crucial than in a co-located project. Problems like ineffective communication, lack of awareness and trust and restrictive information flow policies impede experience exchange and raise the overall effort for software engineers to collaborate. Moreover, sharing experiences is usually not part of the development process and considered additional effort. This often leads to failure of the experience management initiative due to a lack of participation. This thesis proposes a framework for qualitative and quantitative assessment of light-weight experience collection. Light-weight methods primarily aim at lowering the perceived effort and return a reasonable benefit to the experience bearers. This thesis proposes characterizing criteria of light-weight experience collection and a measurement system to measure gradations of expected effort and benefit of an experience collection method. To support knowledge managers in choosing the appropriate collection method, this thesis provides a catalogue of strategies from different categories and areas of application in distributed development projects.

This digital edition features a stunning selection of the winning photographs from the sixteenth International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition. This book is for anyone who values the beauty and importance of a green planet. Inside you will discover some of the latest and greatest botanical photography, and a gateway to the wonderful worlds of flora, fauna and fungi. IGPOTY exists to celebrate the achievement of all the awarded photographers, and to acknowledge the stunning majesty of natural and man-made gardens. This volume features every awarded image from the main categories as well as Portfolios, and a selection of higher-placed images from the five Photo Projects and select Special Awards. We hope you become inspired by the images within, and decide to enter one of our competitions or rediscover your love of plants and gardens – you never know how it may blossom! Find out more, at: www.igpoty.com

This collection bundles two contemporary Christian novels by the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece. Leota’s Garden plus And the Shofar Blew are combined into one e-book for a great value! Leota’s Garden: “An emotionally compelling story” (Library Journal) about the devastation secrets can unleash on a family and the power of grace to bring second chances. Leota’s garden was once a place of beauty, where flowers bloomed and hope thrived. Now, eighty-four-year-old Leota Reinhardt is alone, her beloved garden in ruins. All her efforts to reconcile with her adult children have been fruitless, and she voices her despair to a loving Father, her only friend. Then God brings a wind of change through unlikely means. “Rivers is a master gardener . . . using poignant humor and bittersweet revelation to open hearts to reconciliation.” —Romantic Times And the Shofar Blew: He seemed like the perfect pastor to lead Centerville Christian Church. She was the perfect pastor’s wife. When Paul Hudson accepted the call to pastor the struggling church, he had no idea what to expect. But it didn’t take long for Paul to turn Centerville Christian Church around. Attendance was up-way up. Everything was going so well. If only his wife could see it that way. Still, he tried not to let her quiet presence disturb him. She knew something wasn’t right, and it hadn’t been for a long time. . . . Eunice closed the bedroom door quietly and knelt beside her bed. “I’m drowning, God. I’ve never felt so alone. Who can I turn to but you, Lord? Where else does a pastor’s wife go for help when her marriage is failing and her life is out of control? Who can I trust with my anguish, Lord? Who but you?” “This book is a powerful and almost-prophetic statement of the church in America. . . . And the Shofar Blew is a must-read.” —Anne Graham Lotz, bestselling author and speaker

Kra uses storytelling to connect medicine with the human condition, resulting in tales of love and loss, triumph, and disillusionment. From post-war France and Switzerland to a modern private cardiology practice and the teaching hospitals at Yale, Kra diagnoses rare diseases, falls in love, and even survives a plane crash on a frozen lake. An exploration of the Golden Age of Medicine coupled with vivid moments of unusual, captivating stories with a cast of compelling characters. Now with 18 engaging, delightful, interesting, and surprising additional stories, most never before published. “I take care of people’s hearts so they can go on loving. I can think of no greater privilege.” "Kra came to America in 1938 as a boy when his family fled the Nazis. After working his way through CCNY, he found himself blackballed by U.S. med schools in the 1950s because he’d been marked as an agitator, so he went to Europe to study medicine in France and Switzerland. One of the best and most moving pieces here dates back to his med student days in Switzerland, where he lost his heart to a beautiful young dancer, a tb patient in a sanatorium high in the Swiss Alps (“Gabrielle’s Dance”)…. I suspect Siegfried Kra must have been a damn good doctor. And, after reading DANCER IN THE GARDEN, I know he’s a good storyteller too. Kudos to Pleasure Boat Studio publisher for printing this lively collection. Very highly recommended.” -TimBazzett, Librarything