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No-Waste Organic Gardening

Eco-friendly Solutions to Improve any Garden
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No-Waste Organic Gardening by Shawna Coronado is the second book in the popular No-Waste Gardening series, providing practical guidance on creating a productive and eco-friendly organic garden. The book offers inventive tips on upcycling household waste into garden solutions, from growing seedlings and making compost, to pest control with homemade traps and crafting rain barrels from recycled materials. Readers will discover how to reduce plastic use by mixing their own potting soil and protect plants using repurposed containers, all without needing power tools. The book also addresses common gardening challenges with sustainable, cost-effective methods, making responsible gardening accessible and enjoyable.
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No-Waste Organic Gardening is ideal for home gardeners seeking sustainable, budget-friendly gardening methods and environmentally conscious individuals interested in reducing waste while cultivating their own organic produce.

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Covering dozens of ways to recycle and re-purpose your way to a successful organic garden, No-Waste Organic Gardening shows you how to be a smart, responsible gardener.

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In this second book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, learn how to recycle and re-purpose your way to a successful, productive, and eco-friendly organic garden!

In No-Waste Organic Gardening, author Shawna Coronado guides you toward a more sustainable landscape with dozens of tips, tricks, and solutions that save you time and money—all while saving the planet, too! A revision of Shawna's previous title, 101 Organic Gardening Hacks, this new book tackles waste-reducing gardening in a clever, accessible way.

Learn how to:

  • Upcycle household discards to grow seedlings
  • Turn yard debris into "black gold" in a DIY compost bin
  • Control pests with traps made from household discards
  • Build a rain barrel from an old trash can
  • Mix up your own potting soil to reduce plastic bag waste
  • Protect spring plantings with re-purposed jugs, jars, and containers
  • Build a new raised bed with everyday items—no power tools required!

Plus, you'll find solutions to common garden problems and plenty of innovative and resourceful ways to reduce your outgoing waste. Conquering the increasingly important art of responsible gardening is a whole lot easier than you might think, with help from No-Waste Organic Gardening.

For more advice on living waste-free, explore the first book in the No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.

Series: No-Waste Gardening

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  • No-Waste Composting
    In No-Waste Composting, you'll discover the hows and whys of composting and find over a dozen practical step-by-step plans for building both indoor and outdoor composting systems that require a minimal amount of space. "I don't have enough space to compost." "I don't know what's safe to compost and what isn't." "I live in the city, so I don't think...
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  • No-Waste Kitchen Gardening
    No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colourful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening gives you all the instructions and tricks you'll need...
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  • No-Waste Organic Gardening
    In this second book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, learn how to recycle and re-purpose your way to a successful, productive, and eco-friendly organic garden! In No-Waste Organic Gardening, author Shawna Coronado guides you toward a more sustainable landscape with dozens of tips, tricks, and solutions that save you time and money—all while saving the planet, too! A...
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Budget Earth praises it as "an excellent introductory book to waste-free organic gardening." The Emporia Gazette encourages readers to connect with the author through her newsletter and courses, highlighting the book's value for those aiming to grow their own food and become eco-conscious gardeners.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760367643

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 March 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Shawna Coronado is an author, on-camera spokesperson, newspaper columnist, internationally recognized keynote speaker, and environmental and health correspondent. She has lectured for TEDx and Google, appears regularly on US national television, and spends her time educating the online community about eco-travel, green living, sustainable gardening, inexpensive cooking, and home vegetable production-all from her very own home and ornamental front-lawn garden. Shawnas photographs and stories on organic living have been featured on HGTV.com, in Birds & Blooms magazine, and in the books The Green Garden, Grocery Gardening, The Edible Front Yard, and Garden Up!. She is the author of Cool Springs Press Illinois Getting Started Garden Guide (2014), Indiana Getting Started Garden Guide (2014), The Wellness Garden (2017), and 101 Organic Gardening Hacks (2017).

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