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Fringed waterlily Nymphoides peltata pencil drawing of flowers, buds, and leaves

Fennel Foeniculum vulgare pencil illustration showing the fennel and the highly branched leaves

Cucumber Cucumis sativus pencil drawing showing three types of cucumber along with leaves, flower, and tendrils

Canadian waterweed Elodea canadensis pencil drawing with an emergent flower and more of this invasive weed grwoing below the water surface

Common Alder Alnus glutinosa Cones and catkins pencil study with outline of the leaf behind

Common Alder Alnus glutinosa roots showing their distinctive growth habit

Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta Pencil illustration with three flowers and floppy leaves showing paralell veins

Branched bur reed Sparganium erectum pencil illustation showing fruits

Broccoli Brassica oleracea italica pencil study showing edible head and a few leaves

Brussels sprout Brassica oleracea gemmifera pencil drawing of the plant showing how the sprouts grow up the stem and detail of a couple of sprouts

Arrowhead Sagittaria sagittifolia pencil image showing plant above and below wtaer and the different leaves in both habitats, in flwoer

A hand pinching out the growth tips on a cucumber plant to encourage lateral growth and more cucmber fruit

Brownstone house with back yard full of a diverse array of containers all of which are growing different edible food crops from herbs to fruit thorugh salads and vegetables.

Corner of a raised bed showing how to attach the plants to one another when building the bed

Three illustrations showing compost as it degrades into organic matter, from recognizable leaf litter through to earth like mulch

Set up with two compost bins in rotation

Vegetable garden in a raised bed showing taller crop plants behind the shorter ones in the front including beans, borage, chives, and salad crops

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

Container growing herbs including marjoram, chives, basil, chervril, salad, lettuce, and nasturtium

Raised bed growing chives, nasturtium, lavender, chili, cabbage, lettuce, rosemary, parsley, and violets

Lasagna garden cross section showing the layering of paper, organic matter such as compost, topsoil, and crops

Study of leaf litter showing dead decaying leaves

Pepper seedling in a lump of soil, held in the hand of a gardener