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Create a beautiful, healthy garden that never ceases to amaze with Know Your Soil!
Your soil is filled with unique properties that determine what you can grow and how well.
Without knowing your specific soil type-clay, silty, peaty, or one of the others-you could be devoting your time, energy, and money to a garden that doesn't bring you results.
Understanding your soil and what's living in it, like microorganisms and insects, provides the foundation...
4) Storm front
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Virgil Flowers Novel volume 7
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Minnesota cop Virgil Flowers teams up with an Israeli cop who is tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic -- a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Problems mount when teams of murderous bad guys believe Virgil and the woman cop are getting in their way of claiming the relic for themselves.
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"Virgil Flowers will have to watch his back--and his mouth--as he investigates a college culture war turned deadly in another one of Sandford's "madly entertaining Virgil Flowers mysteries" (New York Times Book Review)"--
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can...
6) Deadline
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2014
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"In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to...
7) Holy ghost
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Virgil Flowers volume 11
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Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle...and a murder...in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of pulse-pounding thrillers. Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will...until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: ©?'ll Do What I Can') comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating...
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In this incredibly comprehensive and gorgeously photographed guide, master gardener Stacy Ling helps aspiring green thumbs achieve success with her easy-to-grow, easy-care, and low maintenance approach to growing beautiful flowers.
Have you never met a plant you couldn't kill? Does maintaining a flourishing flower garden seem intimidating or time-consuming? Have you dug around in the dirt with nothing to show for it except a sunburn and a sore...
9) The Backyard Homestead: The Ultimate Guide to Organic Gardening for Beginners, Discover All The E
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The Backyard Homestead: The Ultimate Guide to Organic Gardening for Beginners, Discover All The Essential Information About Growing Your Own Organic Garden.
More and more families are now deciding to grow their own organic garden. Due to all the news of harmful chemicals being used on the fruits and vegetables that we buy in the stores, the popularity of growing their own food has increased. Knowing that the food you put in the table is safe is not...
10) Deep freeze
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Virgil Flowers volume 10
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"Class reunions: a time for memories--good, bad, and, as Virgil Flowers is about to find out, deadly--in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series Virgil knows the town of Trippton, Minnesota, a little too well. A few years back, he investigated the corrupt - and as it turned out, homicidal - local school board, and now the town's back in view with more alarming news: A woman's been found dead, frozen in a block of ice. There's...
11) Foraging Guide
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If you want to understand the fundamentals of foraging for food, you've come to the correct place!
This Foraging Guide will teach you all there is to know about foraging, gathering, and preserving delicious wild plants all year.
Foraging is often seen as a sophisticated, complex, and even deadly practice.
To some degree, this is undoubtedly true. However, after you've finished this book, you'll understand that foraging is a great hobby to do with...
12) Floriography
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Are you seeking a new, fun, and unique way to express your
emotions and convey messages to your loved ones or
acquaintances? Look no further than the language of flowers, or
floriography, the art of assigning meanings to various flowers,
colors, and arrangements.
13) Mad River
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2012
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"Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what's-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers' cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension...
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Flowering plants, cone-bearing plants, ferns, and mosses make up the four main plant groups. But did you know that each of these groups has a different life cycle? Or that some plants reproduce with seeds and others reproduce with spores? This fascinating book investigates the life cycles of each of the four main plant groups.
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! A plant can form fruit and seeds when it is pollinated. Animals and wind help spread pollen from one plant to another. But do you know how insects pick up pollen from flowers? Or how each part of a flower helps pollination? Let's experiment to find out! Simple step-by-step instructions help readers explore science concepts and analyze information....
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Roots help keep plants alive. They take in water and minerals. But do you know how much of a plant is made up of its roots? Or whether roots always grow down? Let's experiment to find out! Learn more about plants in the Plant Experiments series part of the Lightning Bolt Books collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books bring nonfiction topics to life!
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! A plant's environment helps it grow. Weather, soil, and animals are important to a plant's survival. But do you know what happens to a plant when the seasons change? Or how earthworms help a plant's roots? Let's experiment to find out! Simple step-by-step instructions help readers explore science concepts and analyze information.
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Not all plants smell as sweet as a rose. Carrion flowers smell like rotting flesh to attract flies and other pollinators. Others, like the Venus flytrap and Nepenthes truncata, actually eat animals! Young readers will be amazed by all of the weird and disgusting plants in this interesting read.
19) Growing a garden
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"Simple text and photographs present an overview of growing a garden"--Provided by publisher.
20) Planting
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In Planting, early fluent readers learn how to begin a garden. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they choose their plants, prepare the soil, and start their crop.
An infographic illustrates how a plant grows from a seed, and an experiment offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about planting using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites....
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