{"id":43866,"date":"2022-03-21T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=43866"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:12:52","slug":"hurrah-its-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/hurrah-its-spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurrah! It’s Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"

While an Iowa spring is usually a bit slow and hesitant to appear, it is<\/em> on the way! Time to start planning your garden. Here are the latest books available at the library to inspire you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Four Season Food Gardening<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Misilla Dela Llana. Unlike most other vegetable\u00a0gardening<\/span> books this one approaches the subject through the lens of what you can grow during each of the four seasons, even if you live in a cold climate. Using season-extension techniques, such as cold frames, mini hoop houses, and thick mulches, combined with a thoughtful mixture of annual and perennial crops, you’ll discover that eating from your backyard through all 12 months is possible.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Garden Refresh: how to give your yard a big impact on a small budget<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kier Holmes. This is a thoughtful, accessible, and creative guide for the savvy home\u00a0gardener<\/span>\u00a0on how to create a beautiful, productive and healthy\u00a0garden<\/span>\u00a0without spending crazy amounts of cash or using an excess of Earth’s valuable natural resources.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Grow More Food : a vegetable gardener’s guide to getting the biggest harvest possible from a space of any size<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>by Colin McCrate. How to plan your\u00a0garden<\/span>\u00a0carefully, maximize production in every bed, get the most out of every plant, scale up systems to maximize efficiency, and expand the harvest season with succession planting, intercropping, and season extension<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Grow Now: how we can save our health, communities and planet – one garden at a time<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Emily Murphy. We now recognize that plots in towns and cities are critical to supporting planetary diversity, and by instituting organic, regenerative practices and growing some of our own food, we can sequester carbon as well as shift toward living in a more ecologically responsible way.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Midwest Gardener’s Handbook: all you need to know to plan, plant and maintain a Midwest garden<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Melinda Myers. \u00a0gardeners<\/span> in the north central US are handed all the know-how they’ll need to grow a lush, productive garden<\/span>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Elegant and Edible Garden: design a dream kitchen garden to fit your personality, desires and lifestyle<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Linda Vater. Learn how to create a one-of-a-kind food\u00a0garden<\/span> that’s just as beautiful as it is functional.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gardening for Everyone: growing vegetable, herbs and more at home<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Julia Watkins. An author and sustainability expert shares how to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs in a backyard\u00a0garden<\/span>, providing detailed information on creating and caring for a\u00a0garden<\/span>\u00a0including planning, building, planting, tending, and harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While an Iowa spring is usually a bit slow and hesitant to appear, it is on the way! Time to start planning your garden. Here are the latest books available at the library to inspire you. Four Season Food Gardening by Misilla Dela Llana. Unlike most other vegetable\u00a0gardening books this[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[6143,99,1886,2623],"class_list":["post-43866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-backyard-gardening","tag-gardening","tag-spring","tag-vegetable-gardening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-bpw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43866"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43881,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43866\/revisions\/43881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}