The Weekend Gardener Ebook

Table of Contents

Please See This First
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Weekend Garden

• Weekend Gardening Goals
• A Better Weekend Gardening Experience
• Making Your Choices
• Slow But Sure Does It!
• Looking For Easy Solutions

Chapter 2: Easy Lawns

• Sloping Lawns
• A New Vision Of Lawn Care
• What About Lawn in Shade?
• Mass Planting Ground Covers
• Let's Line up Our Lawn
• My Big Three Suggestions!
• Handling Unruly Ground Covers
• Oh! The Tangled Webs Of Deceitful Ground Cover!
• Mowing And Lawn Care Freedom
• Shaded Grass
• Grass Choices
• Helping Grass In The Shade
• A Mowing Strip To The Rescue!
• Grass Vs. Tree Trunks & Roots
• Conclusion: Easy Lawns!

Chapter 3: Fast Flowers

• Flowers: A Short Course
• The Perfect Weekend Flower Garden
• Three Cheers For Annuals!
• Those Bang-Up Biennials!
• Easy Care Annuals
• Keep 'Em Comin' Perennials
• Roses, Oh! Roses
• Bang Up Bulbs!
• The Season Long Bloom
• Taking The Outside Inside
• Color In The Flower Garden
• Enjoy the Loveliness Of Your Care Free Flower Garden

Chapter 4: Delicious Weekend Vegetable Gardens

• Step One- The Soil
• Intensive Gardening
• Yearly Chores
• Designing Your Bed
• Making The Bed
• How To Select Vegetables
• Weekend Vertical Gardening
• Harvesting Vegetable Plants
• Spacing Crops For Weekenders
• Keep 'Em Moving Crop Rotation
• Vegetable Roommates
• Coming Back For Seconds And Thirds And
• Those Everlasting Perennial Crops

Chapter 5: Fruits Made Easier

• How To Care For Blueberries- The Basics
• Blueberries: The Friendliest Of All
• Planting And Feeding Blueberries
• Scrumptious Strawberries
• Pruning Blueberries
• Whoa! Strawberry Stampede!
• Big Show Brambles!
• Strawberry Planting & Feeding
• Which Brambles?
• Brambles Basic Care
• A Trellis and A Bramble
• Is your Bramble Sick?
• Caring For Currants and Gooseberries
• Currants and Gooseberries
• A Fruity Conclusion

Chapter 6: Natural Landscapes

• Native Or Natural?
• A Few Basic Principles
• Your Woodland Garden - A Shaded Paradise
• Shaded Areas
• Check The Soil pH And Other Considerations
• Choosing Your Site
• Let's Get Some Woodland Plants
• Let's Spark Up The Soil
• A Word Of Caution
• Ferns Are Lovely Here
• Let's Place Our Plants Now
• House Keeping Is A Breeze!
• What About Seed Mixes?
• An Introduction To Meadow Gardening
• Weeds And Your Meadow

Chapter 7: Easy Care Plants for Weekenders

• Weekender Small, Medium & Tall Deciduous Tree Recommendations
• Weekender Groundcover Recommendations
• Weekender Evergreen Tree Recommendations
• Weekender Evergreen Shrub Recommendations
• Weekender Deciduous Shrub Recommendations
• Weekender Annuals Recommendations
• Weekender Bulb Recommendations
• Weekender Perennial Recommendations

Chapter 8: Matching The Tool and Task In Your Weekend Garden

• Dig In and Plant With These Tools
• Don't Take Your Tools For Granted
• Power Tillers
• Weekend Pruning Tools
• Weekend Weeding & Cultivating Tools
• Weekenders Raking And Blowing Tools
• Weekenders Edging Tools
• Weekenders Leaf Eating And Brush Chomping Tools
• Weekenders Lawn Mowing Tools
• Weekenders Wheelbarrows, Carts, And Garden Cloths
• Weekenders Garden Hoses And Attachment Tools
• Weekenders Mulch
• Weekenders Compost

Appendix A: Weekender's Year Long Calendar Of Activities
Appendix B: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Appendix C: Weekend Gardeners' Resources
Afterword
About the Author
Other Ebooks By The Author