Soil - Part Ii - Subsoil & Topsoil: Improving Your Soil
Subsoils are either porous or non-porous. Nonporous subsoils do not drain well. The worst condition is a hardpan subsoil. This type has an impervious layer that will not drain. This layer can be relatively shallow or quite deep. The lack of ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
 The Land Strikes Back In Dust Bowl, Donald Worster masterfully transports the reader to a time when the land seemed to rise up in protest against those who would try to dominate it. The author points out in the introduction that the Dust Bowl and the ... [... more]
CDN$20.95
Amazon CA |
How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
My 7 year old loves this book! The day this book arrived, my daughter read it on her own cover to cover. It opened up a great dialogue regarding the composition of the Earth. I sometimes have trouble getting her to read regular science books, but this ... [... more]
CDN$7.50
Amazon CA |
Short History of Progress
No hope, just an awareness of what's being done now and what's been done in the past, is what Ronald Wright will permit in A Short History of Progress, his grim, ammoniacal Massey Lectures, the 43rd in the series. In five lucid, meticulously documented ... [... more]
CDN$25.77
Amazon CA |
Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite ...
Trilateralism - A Biased But Worthwhile Read As a subscriber to the view that capitalists, for the most part, are heroes and that capitalism, for the most part, is the best of breed, I could have done without the editor's spin. This aside, trilateralism ... [... more]
CDN$21.46
Amazon CA |
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and ...
Difficult to beat this book Practical idealists, the Shakers demonstrated that it is possible for man to create the environment and way of life he wants, not by complaining about the system but by building their own domain arranged to their liking. Eliot ... [... more]
CDN$32.50
Amazon CA |
Belly Button Boy
Belly Button Boy This book is great! It's about a boy who gets a plant grown in his belly button. At first, he didn't want anyone to know, but then he wanted help. Read the book to find out what happens. It's AWESOME!
ALL four of my kids love this This is ... [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
Russia Under The Old Regime
Who's Who and What's What. After reading many books on Russian history this one tells me who the players are and how they became players. An excellent book that presents a lot of information on the day to day life of everyone in early Russia. This is a ... [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Landscaping On Top Of Rock
1. Make your own topsoil. If you live in the Maritimes, where you have access to lots of seaweed, go get it, lots of it! Pile it high and mix it with sand and soil approximately in the following proportions: one part sand, one part average to ... [... more]
HGTV.ca |
Great Garden Gadgets
· A beautiful, well-grown garden is often only as organized as your garden shed. Eventually, regardless of how much space you've got to work with, you'll need somewhere to store your dirty tools, topsoil, seeds, and fertilizer. If you don't have .. ... [... more]
HGTV.ca |
Moving My Daffodil Garden - Continued
Daffodil Cocktail I kept thinking it was like making a dry "daffodil cocktail" as I added the ingredients. Being that there is no significant amounts of topsoil at our new home, we would have to haul everything in by the truck load. In that I .. ... [... more]
Suite101 |
How I Beat The Blues..
3. August is a great month to stock up on gardening supplies like topsoil, peat moss, composted manure, tools, etc. While you are at it, terrific bargains on plants can be had, as most places would love to get rid of ... [... more]
Suite101 |
