Recipes for homemade tonics, salves, and poultices that can prevent, heal, and cure common health ailments are featured in this reference to folk medicines. Products in the kitchen cabinet, refrigerator, medicine chest, and garden can replace or supplement many expensive medicines through the innovative formulas detailed. Easing arthritis with a ...
What do antacids, baby shampoo, and vodka have in common? They are all super powerful, money-saving solutions described in this home-improvement guide to solving common health, home, and garden problems with products found on any supermarket's shelves. Aside from their traditional usage, these and other well-known supermarket products have secret ...
Whether used in backyards, acre properties, or patio container gardens, the simple and natural gardening tricks in this resource incorporate common household products and down-home ingenuity to combat common gardening problems.
Anyone can have a lawn even greener than a neighbor's envy with this definitive guide to improving the attractiveness of grass from seed to sod, using Baker's proven tips, tricks, and tonics.
Baker shows how to grow, protect, and store vegetables that are bursting withflavor--using the unique ideas and methods he learned from Grandma Putt's owngardening philosophy.
Questions like these haunt every amateur gardener. But the expert answers in this classic guide are designed to make the grass greener on everyone's side of the fence. Jerry Baker, America's master gardener, understands all your hopes and dreams and fears about your garden. And in the pages of this practical, inspiring handbook, he gives you, the ...
The grass is always greener on Jerry Baker's side of the fence. And thanks to this complete step-by-step guide designed to save its users time, money, and effort, anyone can have a thicker, healthier lawn fast. Featuring: -- A state-by-state guide to the best kind of grass -- and the best lawn care for location and climate -- A complete ...
From carpet stains and sore throats to puny plants and joint pain, hundreds of daily problems can be resolved economically and easily with the 1,001 practical solutions offered in this guide. Chemical-free cleaning options using ordinary household products are described, as well as alternate uses for a plethora of other common items. Readers can ...
Fun and innovative ways to save money on items such as groceries, electronics, pet care, travel, and clothing are revealed in this indispensable savings handbook. Features such as "Online Steals & Deals," "Bargain Alerts," and "Fantastic Formulas" uncover easy ways for anyone to become a thrift expert without sacrificing personal pleasures or ...
Jerry Baker answers thousands of questions sent to him from gardeners in every climate, and tackles such tough questions as how to lay out the vegetable garden for maximum efficiency, how to pick the right spot, how to improve the soil, and what and when to plant. Along with his practical, safe, and easy tips for growing a fabulous vegetable ...
Gardeners can turn a bare plot into a beautiful paradise with the 1,050 miracle-working solutions, tonics, and tricks collected in this power-packed garden resource.
Jerry shares is secrets on soil preparation, selection, fertilizing, pruning, composting, and weed and pest control. In addition, you get Jerry's list of favorite tried-and-true plants. You'll also learn about your favorite plant's soil, sun, and watering needs, along with its height, blossom color, and flowering time, all of which will make your ...
America's Master Gardener offers secrets to growing big, juicy, prize-winning vegetables using common products such as beer, dish soap, and cola. 511 line drawings.
Revealing more than 1,000 surprising gardening secrets, this innovative book shows how to grow big, bright, blooming beauties using common household products. 125 line drawings.
Expert advice, practical shortcuts, inspiration and time-tested tips for house plant lovers everywhere -- Even the recipe for Grandma Putts' Homemade Plant Food! Jerry Baker has included everything the house planter needs to know including fool-proof tips on growing seeds and young plantings, 14 drinks plants prefer to tap water, the perfect light ...
* It's the biggest collection of grow-your-own healing plants and herbs ever packed into one giant book! * 1,347 remarkable remedies for hundreds of home, health, and garden problems * A wealth of miracle medicines, botanical breakthroughs and terrific tonics * Amazing new ways to grow, store and use herbs If plants are like people, then herbs are ...
Learn how to grow perfectly green and gorgeous grass without toxic chemicals and expensive lawn care treatments using methods in this compendium of thousands of lawn care tips, tricks, and tonics. Say goodbye to weeds, disease, and bare spots with these simple yet effective homemade remedies for improving the lawn, such as using beer, baby shampoo ...
In this all new collection of cures and controls for unsavory yard invaders, Jerry Baker shares simple tips and tricks to banish bugs and other critters from lawns and gardens--and almost all the ingredients can be found in the average cabinet. With homemade mixes, common products, and "old-fashioned grow-how," gardeners learn how to eliminate ...
Providing fast pain relief for everything from stiff knees and migraines to muscle spasms and hemorrhoids, the treatments in this health guide use natural and inexpensive products to alleviate common discomforts. Pain specialists and practioners of natural health offer suggestions for relieving angina with garlic and onions, tendonitis with ginger ...
Using common household products, gardeners can create a variety of quick tricks, super shortcuts, and terrific tonics that will turn a hum-drum landscape into a flourishing botanical wonderland. Readers will discover more than 1,400 garden secrets, including Jerry's beer-and-tea tonic for roses, how to turn sandy soil into dandy dirt, a seed ...
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