Manifest personal growth in your garden! Growing Vegetables with a Smile takes you where no other book has, cultivating happiness one garden bed at a time. Unlock your creative abilities by understanding plants and the soil, and use your garden as a model for achieving success in life.

Full-color photos and more than 100 funny illustrations make for an amazing reading and growing experience.

The 3-Tine Cultivator is perfect for either light and loose soil or clay and rock. It’s ready to take your abuse! Hand-forged to finish, the tool will help you amend your soil. It’s great for tidying up your beds for fall or amending your soil for springtime planting.

The cultivator is handmade in the United States!

The Diamond Head Scuffle Weeder makes short work of your weeding chores. Sharp on all sides, it cuts on both the push and pull stroke. The tool’s fine points allow for close detail work around tender plants.

Specifications:

• Weight: 15 ounces
• Length: 16 inches
• Blade width: 5 inches
• Blade length: 3 inches

The Scuffle Weeder is handmade in United States!

Spend less time in the garden … and get more results! This book demystifies the growing of fruit and vegetables and shows that, with the right approach, it can be done successfully as a weekend project or slotted into a busy week. This book will appeal to the complete novice planning a new vegetable garden as well as the more experienced gardener who is looking to save time and increase productivity.

With the Mother Earth News Guide to Herbs A to Z you will learn all you need to know about the different types of herbs that are all around us. Whether it’s finding out how to use a certain herb in a recipe or how to grow the herb itself, this is your one-stop resource for herb gardening tips, delicious recipes, natural remedies, and more.

This unique chart presents gardening events in a "time phased" format so that it is possible to see at a glance the entire planting, growing and harvesting period. It shows proper indoor and outdoor planting times relative to spring and fall frost dates for 22 common garden vegetables. Since frost dates vary from region to region, the chart will slide, making it useful in most parts of the northern Hemisphere where frost is a critical gardening factor. The front of the chart shows the spring season, and the other side acts as a guide for fall gardeners. Frost dates are included in the directions. A must for new gardeners. View the video to see how it works!

Finding the right body, bath, and hair products can be a daunting task, and trying to pick out the best option in a sea of labels with ingredients you’re not sure how to pronounce is never easy. However, with the help of Janice Cox and her book, Natural Beauty from the Garden, finding the right products to fit your needs is not only easy but fun!

If you’re interested in homesteading, livestock, natural health, gardening, DIY projects, renewable energy, or cooking, you don’t want to miss this issue! Mother Earth News has compiled more than 45 articles into The Best of Mother Earth News, 2018 to help guide you through whatever project you’re currently tackling or that you plan to take on in the future. From learning how to grow an aquaponics aquaculture to building a beehive and keeping bees to making homegrown olive oil, this issue is here for you.

Around the world, everyone is talking about environmental issues and the concept of “going green.” Natural organic gardening and landscaping are among the most important parts of that movement. Some organic proponents only say to stop using the chemicals. Howard Garrett, in the Organic Manual, explains in detail what to do instead. His “what to do” is the organic method. The book opens with the advice to stop the use of toxic chemicals, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers, but Garrett then goes on, in great detail, about the practical alternatives. This is one of the few books effective for use coast to coast and border to border. The organic method has no geographic boundaries.

The best kept secret of all (uncovered in this book) is that the organic program is better in every way. Whether it’s growing beautiful landscaping or delicious, healthy food crops, the Organic Manual explains bed preparation, planting, pest control, and compost making. It also covers natural living advice. The organic method is the most efficient, most cost effective, and most fun of any approach. It also produces the best trees, shrubs, flowers, fruits, and vegetables that you’ll ever grow.