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Author:

Rees-Warren, Matt, author.

Title:

The ecological gardener : how to create beauty and biodiversity from the soil up / Matt Rees-Warren.

Publisher:

Chelsea Green Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

215 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Design: The Soil Test -- The Water Test -- Creating Outline Drawings -- Marking Out a Path -- 2. Soil: The 'Diamond' Compost Bay System -- Making and Using a Bokashi Bin -- Brewing Compost Tea -- The 'Open-Pit' Biochar Method -- Building a Vermicompost Stack-House -- 3. Plants: Turning a Lawn into a Wildflower Meadow -- Planting a Native Country Hedgerow -- Laying a Hedgerow -- Collecting Seed -- Taking Cuttings -- Dividing Plants -- 4. Water: Fitting a Whisky-Barrel Rain Collector -- Starting a Rain Garden -- Making a Bathtub Reed Bed -- Building a Keyhole Garden -- Creating a Hessian-Sack Vertical Garden -- 5. Wildlife: Building a Pallet Bug Palace -- Creating a Natural Clay-Lined Pond -- Making a Raised Nettle Bed -- 6. Materials: Coppicing a Hazel -- Sharpening a Blade with a Waterstone -- Using Hessian Wraps for Plants -- Upcycling Tin Cans for Pots -- Making Mud Mortars.

Summary:

"Transform your garden into a self-sustaining haven for nature and wildlife. Ecological garden designer Matt Rees-Warren shares inspirational design ideas and practical projects to help you create a garden that is both beautiful today and sustainable tomorrow. The Ecological Gardener will give you the tools to create an abundant garden from the soil up - a garden that welcomes birds and bees and showcases native planting and wild flowers, with minimal carbon impact or need for fresh water. It includes practical projects, from rainwater harvesting to vermicomposting, laying a hedgerow to turning your lawn into a wildflower meadow. Matt will help you reimagine how you garden, working with nature instead of controlling it, to create a space that promotes both wildlife and beauty. Design a garden for the future - because what we do as individual gardeners matters"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

164502007X
9781645020073

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1198557957

LCCN:

2020055948

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)