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Series: Guides for the Prairie Gardener
The Prairie Gardener's Go-To for Seeds
Paperback
Janet Melrose
9781771513449
$15.00
GARDENING
Mar 02, 2021
The third installation of the new gardening series Guides for the Prairie Gardener is all about seeds, from saving and starting to transplants and even winter sowing.Certified master gardeners Sheryl and Janet offer you all the tools you need to start seeds, ensuring they thrive and grow into beautiful mature plants. They answer your questions on things likehow to determine the viability of seedsthe difference between an heirloom, heritage, and hybrid seedthe best containers and planting media to usewhen and how to use growing lightstroubleshoo...
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Series: Guides for the Prairie Gardener
The Prairie Gardener's Go-To for Small Spaces
Paperback
Janet Melrose
9781771513463
$15.00
GARDENING
Mar 02, 2021
The fourth installation of the new gardening series Guides for the Prairie Gardener will teach you how to maximize your small-space garden in the prairies.Not everyone in the prairies has a big, wide-open space in which to garden, but with a little extra know-how and some specialized techniques, you can maximize your success in the space you have.Lifelong gardeners Sheryl and Janet are here with answers to all of your big questions about small-space gardening includingWhich types of growing media to use in containers or raised bedsHow to proper...
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Series:
The Distilleries of Vancouver Island
A Guided Tour of West Coast Craft and Artisan Spirits
Paperback
Marianne Scott
9781771513326
$25.00
COOKING
Apr 20, 2021
A guided tour that highlights the recent evolution of the 21 craft and artisan distilleries that have sprung up on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.In the past five years the number of craft and artisan distilleries on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands has more than doubled. A change in the provincial liquor laws in 2013 made small-batch distilling a viable business and with this alternative to high-volume, mass-market liquor comes a focus on local ingredients and distinctive flavours.From relative veterans like Merridale and Sheringha...
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Series:
Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures
Paperback
Moira Dann
9781771513487
$20.00
HISTORY
Apr 20, 2021
Told in 21 objects—including furnishings, artwork, and tools—this approachable museum guide takes readers into the family history, local lore, and oddities of one of Victoria's most famous landmarks.Craigdarroch Castle, built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir for his wife, Joan, and their family, was completed in 1890. Following Joan's death, the castle was put up for sale in 1908, and later housed a military hospital and the nascent University of Victoria.Since 1979 the castle has operated as a museum and is one of the top tourist attractions in t...
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Series:
Victoria Unbuttoned
A Red-Light History of BC’s Capital City
Paperback
Linda J. Eversole
9781771513388
$20.00
HISTORY
Apr 06, 2021
A nuanced history of prostitution in Victoria told through newly uncovered stories of women who lived it.From the establishment of Fort Victoria, BC’s capital city has had a long history of prostitution. But little has been written on the lives of the women themselves—some of the most enterprising women in Victoria’s past. Instead, these women’s stories have been relegated to judgmental newspaper headlines. Now historian Linda J. Eversole takes a deeper look at their lives, from the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War and the Moral Re...
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Series: A Lane Winslow Mystery
A Lethal Lesson
A Lane Winslow Mystery
Paperback
Iona Whishaw
9781771513531
$16.95
FICTION
Apr 27, 2021
Shortlisted for the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice AwardAn Indigo Top 10 Best Mystery of 2021A Globe and Mail bestseller#1 Bestselling New Release in CanadaLane Winslow trades crime solving for substitute teaching in the eighth installment of this mystery series that Kirkus Reviews calls “riveting”.Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in December....
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