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Steven A. Frowine. Gardening Basics For Dummies
Gardening Basics For Dummies. To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Gardening Basics For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Preparing Yourself (and Your Garden) for Planting
Getting Ready for Gardening
Playing the Name Game
Getting used to plant nomenclature
Botanical names
Common names
SHARING NAMES WITH DISTANT RELATIVES
Anatomy 101: Naming plant parts
Beautifying with Flowers (and Foliage)
Amazing annuals
Caring for and feeding annuals
Raising annuals from seed
Beholding a one-time show
ANNUALS THAT AREN’T REALLY ANNUALS
Perennial plants
IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR: GROUNDCOVERS
Caring for and feeding perennials
Looking at lifespan
Considering fall planting
Bulbs and roses
Gardening for Your Dining Pleasure
Working with Woody (or Viny) Plants
Shrubs
Trees
Vines
The World Is Flat: Caring for Your Lawn
Creating a Landscape That You’ll Love
Evaluating What You Already Have
Looking at the big picture
Identifying problems and restrictions
You have too much shade
You have too much sun
Your yard is too big
Your yard is too little
The soil isn’t the type or quality you want
Too many weeds!
Taking advantage of your yard’s assets
RECLAIMING THE GOOD GARDEN HIDING IN YOUR YARD
Getting Ideas for Your Garden Space
Gardening with the kids in mind
Establishing a good garden for pets
Designing a dog-friendly garden
Making your garden cat friendly
Creating space for entertainment
Designing a sanctuary
Cooking up an edible garden
SETTING UP YOUR GARDEN FOR INTERNATIONAL CUISINE
Zeroing In on Your Ideal Garden Style
Gardening around a theme
Formal gardens
Japanese gardens
Tropical garden
Cottage gardens
Dry climate gardens
Woodland gardens
Perusing sources for inspired ideas
Keeping Your Budget in Mind
Bringing Your Garden Ideas to Reality
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN: EMBRACING YOUR INNER (GARDEN) ARCHITECT
Sketching out the yard you have now
Making your drawing match your dream
Defining key areas to start
Getting Professional Help
Considering different professionals
Hiring a pro for landscaping help
Getting into the Zone – Your Garden’s Zone
Focusing on Location — Different Hardiness Zone Maps for Different Folks
Looking at the world’s plant hardiness zone maps
WHO ARE THE ZONE WIZARDS?
Warming up to the heat-zone map
Savoring the Sunset zones
Reading plant hardiness zone maps
A HOT ISSUE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ZONE CHANGES
Fathoming Frost Zones and Growing Seasons
Zoning Out: Breaking the Zone and Growing Season Rules
Managing your microclimates
Cheating the system: Creating microclimates
Bending the rules to stretch your growing season
Incorporating warming tricks
JACK FROST AT BAY
Bringing the plants inside
Live Long and Prosper: Giving Plants What They Need
Welcoming the Sun — Let There Be Light!
Facing Fertilizer Facts
AN OFF-SEASON EXERCISE: ADDING ORGANIC MATTER WITH COVER CROPS
What to use: Natural versus chemical
When to fertilize your garden
Composting: More Than Just Fertilizer
Demystifying Soil pH
Matching plants to different pH levels
Finding out your soil’s pH
Adjusting your soil’s pH
Much Ado about Mulch
Knowing your mulches
Applying mulch — how to and how much
Tackling Watering Issues
Providing the right amount of moisture
On the dry side
Bogged down
Determining which watering system to use
DECIDING WHETHER YOU NEED PROFESSIONAL HELP
Cutting back on watering
Dealing with drainage problems
Making Sure Your Plants Get Enough Air
Gathering Your Gardening Gear
Digging into Those Digging Tools
Getting down with shovels and spades
A strong shaft
The correct handle
A good angle or cant
A well-designed frog
Trowels: More than just little shovels
Garden forks: Not for dining!
Dabbling in dibbles (or dibbers)
TAKING CARE OF YOUR THINGS: GARDEN TOOL MAINTENANCE
Cultivating 101: Clues to Quality Tools
No Santa Claus: Ho, ho, hoes
Weeding out the weeders
Making the Right Cut with Cutting Tools
Getting a handle on hand pruners
Hedging your bets on hedge shears
Branching out with loppers
Moving up to pruning saws
Putting Power Tools to Use
Safety first: Controlling your power tools
Chewing through chores with chainsaws
Working with trimmers and whackers
Tilling soil with rototillers
Rolling Out the Wheelbarrows and Carts
Wading through Watering Tools
Hoses
Materials and construction
Sizes
Storage and placement accessories
REPAIRING A HOSE
Nozzles
Hose-end sprinklers
Water timers
Flowers and Foliage: Growing for Color
Adding Yearly Variety to Your Garden with Annuals
Finding Flowers that Fit Your Garden
Some like it hot: Warm weather annuals
Some annuals like it cool
Mixing and Matching Annuals
Good habits: Taking advantage of shape, height, and structure
Combining colors
Designing annual beds for fragrance
Buying Annuals
Starting with seed packets
Starting with annual, well, starts
An Annual Event: The Whens, Wheres, and Hows of Planting
Filling in the garden after the last frost
Planting in late spring
Planting annuals later in the season
Deciding where to plant annuals
Planting in the sun
Planting in the shade
Getting annuals in the ground
Feeding the Flower Power: Taking Care of Annuals
Watering
Fertilizing
Mulching
Grooming
Dealing with annual pests
Aphids
Cutworms
Japanese beetles
Slugs and snails
Spider mites
Growing Perennials: Plants That Make a Comeback
Looking at the Repeat Performers
Hardy perennials
Tender perennials
Planning Long-Term Strategies for Your Perennial Garden
Timing perennial blooming
The living palette: Keeping colors in mind
Designing perennial beds and borders
Finding and Buying Perennials
Getting perennials in containers
Buying perennials by mail
Potted plants, ready for action
Their roots are showing: Dormant, bareroot perennials
Acquiring free divisions from others
Planting Perennials
Figuring out where to plant perennials
Sunny locations
Shady spots
Dry soil
Wet soil
Clay soil: Soggy soil at its worst
Deciding when to plant perennials
Spring planting
Fall planting
Preparing for the actual planting
Taking Care of Your Perennials
Supporting with stakes or rings
Practicing good grooming habits
OFF WITH ITS HEAD! DEADHEADING YOUR PLANT
Dividing perennials
Preparing perennials for winter
Dealing with perennial pests and diseases
A SLICK TRICK FOR KEEPING OUT MOLES AND VOLES
Brightening Up the Garden with Bulbs
Shedding Light on Bulbs
Defining bulb terms
Looking at early and late bloomers
Getting acquainted with the most popular bulbs
Choosing to Combine Your Bulbs
Combining various types of tulips
Mixing up your daffodils
Combining different kinds of bulbs
The Search: Where to Get Your Bulbs
Buying bulbs — home stores and nurseries
Purchasing bulbs through mail-order
Getting Down and Dirty: Planting Bulbs
When to plant bulbs
Planting spring-blooming bulbs
Planting at the correct depth
KEEPING YOUR COOL: THE SKINNY ON FORCING BULBS
Planting summer-blooming bulbs
Planting fall-blooming bulbs
Where to plant bulbs
Flowerbeds
Containers
Amaryllis
COMPARING DUTCH AND SOUTH AFRICAN VARIETIES OF AMARYLLIS
How to plant bulbs
Step 1: Dig the hole
Step 2: Add a fertilizer
Step 3: Put in the bulb
Step 4: Backfill and water
Taking Care of Bulbs
Watering your bulbs
Fertilizing bulbs
Mulching
Caring for fading leaves
Fighting bulb pests
Coming Up Roses
What Makes a Rose Be a Rose Be a Rose
Checking out blooming habits
Looking at hardiness
Identifying the various rose types
Hybrid teas
Floribundas
Grandifloras
Polyanthas
Species and old garden roses
David Austin or English roses
Shrub or hedge roses
Miniatures
Tree roses or standards
Climbers or ramblers
Groundcover or landscape roses
GRAFTED VERSUS OWN-ROOT ROSES
Deciding Where to Put Your Roses
Planning your beds and borders
Using roses as groundcovers
Screening with roses
Using roses as vines
Buying the Best Roses
Getting a potted rose
Purchasing a bareroot rose
EXPOSING THE TRUTH ABOUT BAREROOT ROSE GRADES
Planting Your Roses
Putting containerized roses in the ground
Planting bareroot roses
Taking Care of Your Roses
Watering
Fertilizing
Keeping roses in shape
Grooming
Deadheading and tidying up leaves
Pruning
Maximizing winter hardiness
War of the roses: Tackling rose pests
Multiplying Your Plants
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES (ACTUALLY IT’S MORE THE BEES)
Growing Plants from Seeds (Sexual Propagation)
Recognizing the different kinds of seed
Sowing seeds versus buying plants
Buying seed: What to keep in mind
SAVING YOUR OWN SEED
Testing seeds
Floating technique
Wet towel technique
Treating seeds to increase germination
Sowing Seed Indoors
Getting better results
Thinning seedlings
Hardening off
Transplanting seedlings
Sowing Seed Directly Outdoors
Cloning Your Plants — Vegetative Reproduction
Cutting and rooting stems
Air layering
Reproducing Bulbs
Bulb scooping
Reproducing lilies
LEAVE IT TO THE PROS — TISSUE CULTURING
Stretching Your Garden beyond Its Boundaries: The Permanent Landscape
Growing a Perfect Lawn
Patching Up the Lawn You Already Have
Making a Lawn from Scratch
Preparing your yard for a lawn
Start with weed prevention
Improve soil quality
Grade the yard
Check the drainage
Designing the lawn
Seeding and Sodding: Adding the Grass
Determining the grass you want or need
Cool-season and warm-season grasses
Growing lawns from seed
How much seed to use
How to spread seed
Your own turf: Growing lawns from sod
Watering a Thirsty Lawn
Getting the water balance right
Boosting watering efficiency
Fertilizing Your Lawn
Deciding on the kind of fertilizer
Knowing your serving sizes: How much fertilizer is enough
Checking out the fertilizing schedule
Mowing the Lawn, Cutting the Grass, and Otherwise Giving the Yard a Trim
Battling the Weeds
Preventing lawn weeds
Treating already-weedy lawns
Reaching New Heights with Trees
Knowing Your Trees
Exploring evergreen trees
Needled evergreens
Dwarf needled evergreens
Broadleaf evergreens
Falling for deciduous trees
Deciduous shade trees
Flowering deciduous trees
CONSIDER KOREAN OR CHINESE DOGWOOD
Choosing the Right Tree for Where You Live
Getting Treed! Planting Trees
Not just for Arbor Day: Deciding when to plant your tree
Finding a suitable location
Avoiding trouble spots
Designing to conserve energy and block the wind
Planting your tree
Balled-and-burlapped trees
Container trees
Bareroot trees
Taking Care of Your Tree
Giving trees a tall drink of water
Fertilizing trees
Life and limb: Pruning judiciously
Training and pruning young trees
Maintenance pruning of mature trees
Raising the stakes: Offering some support
Going Low with Shrubs
Knowing Your Shrubs
Nonflowering shrubs
Flowering shrubs
HYDRANGEAS ARE GARDEN SUPERSTARS
Planning Practical Uses for Bushes
Planting Shrubs
Deciding when to plant your shrubs
Situating your shrubs
Perfecting your shrub-planting skills
Container shrubs
Bareroot shrubs
Balled-and-burlapped bushes
Caring for Your Shrubs
Watering your shrubs
Fertilizing your shrubs
Pruning for shape and rejuvenation
SHEARING HEDGES: STAY AWAY FROM SHRUB LOLLIPOPS
Climbers and Crawlers: Growing Vines and Groundcovers
Looking at How Vines Hold On
Twining
Tendrils
Adhesive discs
Holdfasts
Sprawling
Choosing the Right Vines
Considering your basic options
Annuals and tender perennials
Hardy perennials
Deciding cold-hardy or not
Sizing up your vines
Examining site considerations for vines
Amount of sunlight
Soil quality
THE CHOOSY CLEMATIS: REQUESTING SUN AND SHADE
Weather exposure
Planting and Supporting Vines
Giving vines a little backup
Evaluating materials and construction
Staying grounded: Anchorage
Using trees and shrubs as living supports
Maintaining Vines through Pruning
Looking at Groundcovers
Examining groundcover varieties
Sunlight
Drainage
Basic appearance
Some special features
Dry shade
Bad actors
Enjoying flowering groundcovers
Taking foliage color into consideration
Seeing how groundcover spreads
Branching out from the crown
Sending out new roots
Self-seeding
Considering what groundcover takes up
Exploring site considerations
Planting and Maintaining Groundcovers
Watering
Fertilizing
Mulching
Keeping groundcovers in shape
Getting weeds out (and keeping them out)
Producing Your Own Produce
Food, Glorious Food! Raising Your Own Veggies
Perusing the Varieties of Veggies
Growing vegetables by seasons
Defining hybrids
Appreciating heirlooms
GMOs (GENETICALLY MANIPULATED ORGANISMS) OR GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS: ARE THESE GOOD GUYS OR BAD GUYS?
Designing for Dining and Getting Your Vegetable Garden Ready
Working with the sun: Where to plant vegetables
Sketching your plan
Using planting patterns and systems
Natural garden beds
Raised garden beds
Prepping your soil
Finding Your Vegetables
Buying seeds
Buying nursery transplants
Planting Your Vegetables
Deciding when to plant your veggies
When to plant transplants
When to sow seeds directly
Sowing and planting your veggies
Starting your own seeds indoors
Planting transplants in the garden
THE SCOOP ON LIGHTS
Sowing seeds directly into the garden
Taking Your Veggie Garden to the Next Level
Composting Your Vegetable Garden
Making your own compost
Knowing what to include and not include in your compost pile
Fertilizing Your Vegetable Garden
Using Frames and Supports for Veggies
Dealing with Vegetable Pests
Rodents, rabbits, and other miscreants
Deer
Birds
Bugs
SHOW THE GOOD BUGS THAT YOU CARE AND APPRECIATE THEM
Adding Flavor to Your Garden with Herbs
Recognizing Common Culinary Herbs You Can Grow
Planting Herbs: A Lesson in Adaptation
Getting the timing right
Helping herbs find their place in the world
Inviting herbs into your current garden
Creating an herb garden
Potting your herbs
GOING SOLO
Putting herbs in their place: How to plant
Raising herbs from seed
Taking Care of Your Herbs
Providing an herb’s basic needs
CARING FOR POTTED HERBS INDOORS
Dealing with herb pests
Sweet and Crunchy: Growing Fruits, Berries, and Nuts
Choosing the Fruits for Your Garden
Examining the types of fruits
Getting the lowdown on chill factors
Studying your size accommodations
CONSIDERING THE TYPES OF STRAWBERRIES
Going solo or in pairs: Pollination
Finding and Buying Your Fruit Bearers
Planting Your Fruit
Making the soil deep and wide enough
Choosing the best time to plant fruits
Deciding where to plant your fruits
Getting your fruit in the ground
Container plants
Bareroot plants
Balled-and-burlapped plants
Brambles are the berries!
Taking Care of Fruits
Watering
Fertilizing
Cutting back on mulch
Supporting and training your fruit
Pruning
Tree fruits
Shrub fruits
Vine fruits
Dealing with fruit pests
Targeting birds, bugs, and beasties
The blanket effect: Spraying fruit trees
Designing Special and Fun Gardens
Mini Gardens and Microcosms: Gardening in Containers
Exploring Different Kinds of Containers
Examining standard container materials
Thinking about alternative choices
Getting the Container Soil Right
Purchasing a potting mix
Whipping up your own mix
Picking Plants for Your Containers
Up close and personal displays
DESIGNING YOUR CONTAINER COMPONENTS WITH THRILLER, FILLER, AND SPILLER
Tucked in attention-grabbers
Containers of mixed company
Arranging Containers for a Container Garden
Taking Care of Your Container Plants
Tending to the most vulnerable plants
Gauging your garden’s water needs
Fertilizing your container plants
Taking the Plunge: Gardening with Ponds and Fish
Planning Your Water Garden
Looking at location
Aboveground or in-ground gardens?
Aboveground water gardens
In-ground water gardens
Choosing the best lining
Picking Out Your Parts and Supplies
Identifying what you need (and don’t)
Pumps
Bubblers and fountains
Filters
Installing and Filling Your Pond
Choosing Plants for Water Gardens
Waterlilies
Lotus
So-called marginal plants
Floaters and submerged plants
Adding Goldfish to Your Water Garden
Maintaining Your Water Garden
Taking care of the plants
Winterizing your plants and fish
Controlling algae in troubled waters
The Part of Tens
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)
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
Basic Gardening Resources
Examining Gardening Information Online
Turning to U.S. University Resources
Referring to Gardening Organizations
Nonprofit organizations
U.S. plant associations and societies
Canadian gardening resources
Plant associations in the UK
Organic gardening experts
Canadian Gardening Frost Dates by Region
English-Metric Conversion Tables
Index. A
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About the Author
Dedication
Author’s Acknowledgments
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