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Welcome to our Garden Shop! We are so very excited about its potential and possibilities, and we have thoughtfully and conscientiously curated sections for all ages! We have books, gifts, yummy treats and more to help you and others engage with, understand, experience, care for, enjoy and celebrate Mother Nature!
Take time to browse the full collection, and, as with all under Pretty Things & Cool Stuff's sky-blue awning, the Garden Shop will always be a work in progress, so come back and visit often for new discoveries. We also are busy restocking, so if you see a selection that is out of stock, please let us know you are interested, and we will be happy to let you know it is back in stock.
We can't think of a better way to open the Garden Shop than by being an affiliate partner with Botanical Interests, the highly respected, family-owned purveyor of high quality seeds and more for your garden, whether it is on a windowsill, balcony or spread across a yard.
Since 1995, Colorado-based Botanical Interests has been supplying gardeners of all levels with the highest quality seed and the most beautiful and informative seed packets. They have been working for 25 years with much love and commitment to share the beauty, fascination and satisfaction of seed gardening, as well as helping to educate all about how to do so successfully.
Botanical Interests also invested in the rigorous testing and certification to be earn the right to declare every packet of seeds it offers is Non-GMO Project Verified. They have many organic varieties and are working to add more.
There are a lot of reasons why we selected them as a partner for our Garden Shop, and we think you will understand why when you visit them to start or continue your seed gardening adventure. When you shop Botanical Interests with us, you will find seed varieties not available in garden centers, and you can participate in the Packet Points Program to earn free packets of seeds.
Being a Botanical Interests affiliate partner means that when you visit and shop with them through our Garden Shop, we will make a commission from each purchase. Botanical Interests will ship you your seeds and more, and we will use the commission we receive from them to invest in the Garden Shop for you!
Just click on any of the Botanical Interests link here or above to visit them.
For everything else in the Garden Shop, you just add items to your cart here for checkout, and we at Pretty Things & Cool Stuff will happily package your purchase and get it on its way to you.
Let's get growing together for People + Planet!
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You are looking for the perfect gift for someone special, but perhaps you are not...
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The doyenne of gardening herself, Penelope Hobhouse, takes us on a journey through the floating...
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Are you interested in growing your own plants but not sure if you have the...
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Acadia Tucker’s long love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing...
$16.00 USD
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Written by regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker, Growing Good Food: A Citizen's Guide to Backyard Carbon...
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Starting plants from a seed grants earlier harvests, greater variety, healthier seedlings, lower costs, and...
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Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until...
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I'm determined to turn my husband into an organic urban farmer, and this book — highly recommended by my uber-gardener friends — helped get him off to a great start! (See below the 70+ healthy basil seedlings he is growing from seed! And, there still are lots of seeds left in the one packet he used! Just think of all of the money we've saved, and we know that all of the plants are being grown organically. Fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil salads here we come!)
Before it was a book, The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food was organic gardener Tanya L. K. Denckla's highly prized personal database, the distillation of years of careful research and hands-on, real-life, dirt-under-the-fingernails experience in growing her own vegetables, herbs, fruits, and nuts.
Now available to all, this easy-to-read sourcebook offers much to gardeners of all skill levels, answering questions quickly and authoritatively so more time can be spent enjoying the garden.
Six comprehensive chapters cover vegetables, fruits and nuts, herbs, organic remedies, and allies and companions. Within each chapter plants are arranged alphabetically, making needed information eminently accessible.
The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food covers 765 varieties of vegetables, herbs, fruits and nuts. Individual plant entries provide specific information on planting; temperature; soil and water needs; measurements; seed-starting dates; pests, diseases, allies, companions, and incompatibles, as applicable; when to harvest; how to store produce; and overviews of selected varieties.
Fully half of the book is dedicated to organic remedies that can prevent or combat 201 plant diseases and garden pests. Hundreds of common diseases and pests are discussed, as well as which plants are likely to be affected, how to recognize the problem, and tried-and-true natural remedies.
The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food demystifies how to work collaboratively with the complex natural systems of the environment AND makes gardening a little easier and definitely more fun!
Ready to get your organic urban farmer on? Get this and get growing! We are!
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Tanya Denckla Cobb is a writer, a professional environmental mediator at the Institute for Environmental Negotiation, and a teacher of food system planning at the University of Virginia.
She is passionate about bringing people together to find common ground and create solutions for mutual gain. She co-founded a community forestry nonprofit organization, served as Executive Director of the Virginia Urban Forest Council, and facilitated the birth of the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute and the Virginia Food System Council.
At home, she enjoys the restorative energy of gardening and cooking from her garden. She lives in Virginia and is the author of Reclaiming Our Food, The Gardener’s A to Z Guide to Growing Organic Food, and Organic Gardener’s Home Reference.
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We here at Pretty Things & Cool Stuff believe everyone should learn how to grow an organic,...
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“I know of no other person . . . who can produce better results...
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What's up, Doc?, indeed! Bugs Bunny definitely would give a big thumbs-up to this fun...
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Centuries ago, before chemical fertilizers and engineered inputs, the most productive vegetable gardens shared...
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Want to create that farm-to-table feeling even when you haven't had a chance to get...
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We love to cook and eat clean, healthy food, so we grow as many of our own...
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In Lawns Into Meadows: Growing Regenerative Landscape, landscape designer Owen Wormser makes a case for the...
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A stunningly beautiful way to give and enjoy flowers that never fade away and that...
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“ The Reason for Flowers is an extraordinarily good book. It covers the subject with...
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Have you ever wanted to start plants from seed instead of buying seedlings from a local nursery? ...
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"Like life, the flower is fragile and temporary, but we can cherish the beauty of...
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The Most Beautiful Flowers by Kenji Toma brings the inner beauty and essence of the flower as seen through the eyes of the experienced photographer. From his careful selection of paper to how to present flowers in his photographs, Toma revives the concept of the botanical encyclopedia.
This photo series is Kenji Toma's homage to the botanical illustrations in Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, one of the most well-regarded flower encyclopedias of the nineteenth century. Back when color photography did not exist, these images were illustrated with the purpose of replicating the botanic subject as realistically as possible.
In The Most Beautiful Flowers, Toma is interested in doing the exact opposite with the photographic medium which, realistic by nature, can also be used to make a subject look unreal and artificial. The result makes The Most Beautiful Flowers a must have for anyone who loves flowers, photography and art.
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“One of the most gifted botanical artists in history.”— Victoria Magazine The only thing that...
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"Who knew that seeds could be so thrilling and dangerous? Thor Hanson is a lively...
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"The gorgeous imagery, coupled with the luxe packaging, make this feel bespoke. They're perfect for...