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    Gardening For Beginners Book
    Gardening For Beginners Book
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    Gardening For Beginners Book

    By Alastair R Agutter

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    A very big welcome to Gardening for Beginners, a book I was inspired to write from having a real passion since my childhood for gardening. On the book cover you see the words "go green" and having a creative mind, I have provided many great ideas on utilizing old household items that can be transformed and used in the garden. As a result doing your bit recycling and helping the environment. 

    Gardening for Beginners Book is a fabulous gift for friends, family and loved ones of any age seeking to take up the free and healthy pastime of Horticulture.


    As we become more aware of our environment and wild life, with this book you can take the plunge of creating a mini eco-system around your home for a healthier lifestyle and creating a blaze of colour. Blooming Marvellous!


    The book comes with many great gardening ideas including the growing of your own organic vegetables for healthier eating and giving new life to items around your home that can be recycled and given a new lease of life as part of the garden landscape. Also a new lease of life for yourself, with healthy free exercise, ensuring a more healthier lifestyle and remaining in good health, both physically and mentally. 


    Gardening for Beginners has been 2 years in the making by Alastair R Agutter Best Selling author of specialist books and found within this publication only encouragement with step by step guides and many great ideas for making your home into a little piece of Eden.

    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Chapter One – Garden Tools

    Chapter Two – Garden Equipment

    Chapter Three – Garden Soils     

    Chapter Four – Garden Soil Preparation

    Chapter Five – Container Recycling

    Chapter Six – Hanging Baskets

    Chapter Seven – Garden Pots and Tubs

    Chapter Eight – Plant Conditions

    Chapter Nine – Growing Strawberries

    Chapter Ten – Healthy Roses

    Chapter Eleven – Growing Organic Vegetables

    Chapter Twelve – Garden Plants in Sunny Areas

    Chapter Thirteen – Garden Plants in Shaded Areas

    Chapter Fourteen – Propagating Plant Cuttings

    Chapter Fifteen – Growing and Pruning Fruit Trees

    Chapter Sixteen - Gardening Good Life and Ideas

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlastair Agutter Digital Publications
    Release dateOct 16, 2015
    ISBN9781518680731
    Gardening For Beginners Book
    Author

    Alastair R Agutter

    Alastair R Agutter was born in Farnborough, Kent, England in 1958. He is a Best Selling Author of more than 30 specialist books. He is a Philosopher, Logistician, Theoretical Physicist, Writer, Publisher, Naturalist, Environmentalist, Computer Scientist, Creative Digital Artist and Proud Father of Five Children. His first specialist book was published in 1989 and writing on the South American Marine species the symphysodon that he managed to breed successfully in captivity after a great deal of heartache. In the book introduction over 25 years ago, he wrote about climate change concerns and with warnings. From the age of just 6 years, Alastair took up Gardening, being taught by his Grand Father, William Agutter. At 9 years of age, and as a young boy, Alastair also took up the hobby and past time of Tropical Fish Keeping, and became a very successful Aquarist , breeding countless species of cichlids and other tropical fish for over 46 plus years. Still today Alastair remains one of a select few in the world to breed Wild Discus (symphysodon) in captivity, and remains an authority on the subject ,and also as an accomplished author. As a writer of over 25 years today, Alastair never knew he would become a specialist books author. But then on reflection of his life's journey today, such a path does now make absolute sense!

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      Gardening For Beginners Book - Alastair R Agutter

      Gardening For

      Beginners

      Digital Book Edition

      Written by Alastair R Agutter

      ––––––––

      Gardening for Beginners

      Digital Book Edition

      Go Green, Great Recycling Ideas and

      Being Environmentally Friendly

      Written and Designed by

      Alastair R Agutter

      Published by

      Alastair Agutter Digital Publications

      Digital Book Edition Published 16th October 2015

      ISBN-10: 1518680739

      ISBN-13: 978-1518680731

      ASIN: B016RN65AM

      All Rights Reserved

      © Copyright 

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One – Garden Tools

      Chapter Two – Garden Equipment

      Chapter Three – Garden Soils

      Chapter Four – Garden Soil Preparation

      Chapter Five – Container Recycling

      Chapter Six – Hanging Baskets

      Chapter Seven – Garden Pots and Tubs

      Chapter Eight – Plant Conditions

      Chapter Nine – Growing Strawberries

      Chapter Ten – Healthy Roses

      Chapter Eleven – Growing Organic Vegetables

      Chapter Twelve – Garden Plants in Sunny Areas

      Chapter Thirteen – Garden Plants in Shaded Areas

      Chapter Fourteen – Propagating Plant Cuttings

      ––––––––

      Chapter Fifteen – Growing and Pruning Fruit Trees

      Chapter Sixteen - Gardening Good Life and Ideas

      Reference

      Introduction

      Hello and a very big welcome to Gardening for Beginners Digital Book Edition and a very special thank you for acquiring this book.

      Gardening is a great pastime for folk of any age and I hope such an interest will bring you many years of joy and happiness. William Agutter my Grandfather first taught me to Garden as a small boy in the early 1960’s, a period now spanning over 50 plus years and just as enthusiastic today as I was then.

      Horticulture as a pastime provides countless benefits in our lives, one especially being living a healthier and more rounded lifestyle from free exercise, fuelling the body, mind and soul in this frenetic technology driven world of virtual reality today. Your gardening is also a great contribution towards the health of the environment by providing micro eco systems to filter out toxins, provide habitats for many wild life friends and reducing the risk of flooding to your home and community by having a fusion of colour around your house instead of paving and concrete.

      Having a great passion and interest for Gardening, I wanted to write a book on the subject to help and encourage more folk to take up the hobby with confidence, so they can grow an array of plants for family and loved ones to enjoy in magnificent colour and organic vegetables for a far healthier eating lifestyle.

      So please enjoy this book and I hope it becomes a valuable friend and companion.

      Sincere Best Wishes,

      Alastair Agutter

      Garden Tools

      Today there are many different types of tools and products on the market in our consumer driven world to choose from. But gardening tools become very special companions and the more you use them they almost become a part of you.

      Garden Tools that last: Garden Fork, Hoe and Rake - Photograph by Alastair R Agutter

      When acquiring Gardening tools, it is wise from the very outset to buy tools that will last a life time and by doing so, helping towards this fragile environment we all know as home, Mother Earth we are being an environmentally friendly humanitarian.

      If you like a bargain in the real extreme, you can sometimes buy old garden tools from boot sales, bric-a-brac markets and antique shops.

      Garden Tools: Garden Sheers and Secateurs - Photograph by Alastair R Agutter

      If you are unable to attain tools from any of the above venues, always try your local ironmongers, garden nursery centre or finally your DIY store.

      Always look out for sturdy well-made metal and wooden handled tools made in England, USA or Germany.

      Do not buy cheap tools that will not last and especially ones that are plastic, for such materials today never have enough oil properties in the material and very often over cooked in the injection moulding process, thus removing all the oils. As a result, these inferior tools are very brittle and break. You are also helping the environment by not buying such cheap and useless products made from fossil oils.

      With Wooden and metal tools they are easier to maintain and repair. For example, if a hoe shaft breaks you can always replace the wooden shaft with another acquired from your local ironmongers.

      Garden Tools: Garden Hand Fork with Wooden Handle and Sieve - Photograph by Alastair R Agutter

      In the two previous pictures above they show garden sheers, secateurs, sieve and a small stainless steel wooden handled fork. These tools will become essential companions in your gardening exploits and frequently used.

      So as to preserve the health of your tools if you do have a little extra spare space in your Garden is to invest in a shed. As they can be extremely helpful work areas if benched out properly, where you can plant seeds in boxes, winter bulbs, pot on plants and take cuttings. 

      Tools do become very personal items and over the years there seems to be something magical about them when stored in the garden shed, retaining priceless memories of season’s gone bye.

      Garden Tools: The Mystery and Magic of a Garden Shed - Photograph by Alastair R Agutter

      A Garden shed is always a venue Grand Children like to venture and explore, especially where I am sure they pick up those vibrations of family history and traditions that hopefully serve them well in the future!

      Here I have listed items I describe as essential Gardening Tools to get you started, please always remember to try and acquire metal and wooden handled tools that will last a life time and help towards saving the environment. Thank you!

      Essential Garden Tools List: Fork, Hoe, Rake, Small Hand Held Fork, Sieve, Sheers and Secateurs.

      Garden Equipment

      As you further engage in your new gardening pastime, you will invariably find you require more items in addition to essential tools.

      Garden Equipment: A Garden Propagator and Handheld Spray Container - Photograph by Alastair R Agutter

      A good sized ‘Watering Can’ is an essential gardening piece of equipment and it is wise again to invest in a metal galvanized type that will last a life time and can be purchased from your local ironmongers, garden or DIY centre.

      Garden propagators as seen in the picture above will become a regular useful piece of gardening equipment for seedlings and cuttings. Garden propagators

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