Green by the Yard

The Practical Organic Gardener : Everything You Need to Know with More Than 200 Illustrations
Little, Brenda
635.0484 Lit
An informative guide for anyone wanting to learn all there is to know about organic methods for growing food. Instructions for caring for your organic garden, as well as illustrations, charts, and tables on topics such as watering techniques and proper root depth for vegetables are included.

Create an Oasis with Greywater : Choosing, Building, and Using Greywater Systems, Includes Branched Drains
Ludwig, Art
696.13 Lud
Create an Oasis describes how to quickly and easily choose, build, and use a simple greywater system. Greywater is laundry, shower, sink, and dishwater that may be reused for other purposes, especially landscape irrigation.

Grow your Own Organic Fruit & Vegetables: An Easy-to-Follow Directory of Vegetables, Fruit and Herbs
Lavelle, Christine
635.0484 Lav
This helpful, directory-style guide is perfect for anyone seeking to improve the quality of what they grow and eat, whether on the scale of a large selection of fruit trees and bushes or even if it just a few herbs, radishes, strawberries or tomatoes in a pot.

The Organic Lawn Care Manual : A Natural, Low-Maintenance System for a Beautiful, Safe Lawn
Tukey, Paul Boardway
635.9647 Tuk
A book that offers gardeners tips for avoiding lawn chemicals. Some of the topics explored in the book are how to evaluate lawn-care needs, how grass grows, how to create healthy soil, and how to select grass that is drought tolerant and disease and pest resistant.

Let It Rot! : The Gardener's Guide to Composting
Campbell, Stu
631.875/Cam
A quietly humorous and readable intro to composting. Covers reasons to compost, differing approaches, how decomposition works, various methods, ingredients, and containers, how to speed decomposition, and how to use the end result.