Paige Jensen has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is If You're a Tomato I'll Ketchup With You: Tomato Gardening Tips and Tricks.
Leave Me a Lawn: Lawn Care for Tired Gardeners
Summary
How do I make my lawn look like a golf course without all those chemicals? How do I keep up with all the lawn care when I have a million things to do? Leave Me A Lawn is packed with clear, concise information on yard care that is written with a sense of humor and a lot of helpful information on lawn maintenance from a former horticulturist with a trick back. Discover time-saving secrets for better fertilizing, watering and mowing, and helpful hints for those of you who already have too much on your plate. This book also contains advice for those lawn maniacs out there who want that green, lush grass but want to cut back on chemicals and water. You can grow lean and mean grass that fights off insect pests and diseases, and take drought with aplomb.
©2017 Melinda R. Cordell (P)2017 Melinda R. Cordell
Circle of Nine: Beltany
Summary
A multi-award winning coming-of-age story of magic and pagan ritual steeped in the mysticism of Celtic Mythology and the ancient stone circles of Ireland. “Since I was a little girl I’ve been labeled a freak in my small town. There’s no blending in when your mom practices an ancient pagan religion and everyone believes she’s a witch. On my 15th birthday my secret wish is the same as always - to just be normal. But that’s not what I get. Not even close.” (Brigit Quinn) Instead, Brigit is shocked to learn she’s descended from a legendary Celtic tribe - powerful people who serve as guardians of the stone circles of Ireland. A spellbound audiobook of family history reveals the magical powers of her ancestors. Powers that could be hers - if only she wanted them. And when someone sinister and evil returns to steal her family’s strength, Brigit has to make a decision. Fight to keep her unique heritage or reject it for the normal life she’s always wanted. Awards: Kindle Book Award Finalist (Young Adult), Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist (Young Adult-Fantasy), Gotham Writers' YA Novel Discovery Contest Finalist, and BRAG Medallion Honoree.
©2014 Valerie Biel Johnson (P)2019 Valerie Biel Johnson
Perennial Classics: Planting & Growing Great Perennial Gardens
Summary
Perennials are the backbone of the garden - a low-maintenance, long-growing mainstay that the garden revolves around. I've worked with perennials for 20 years, as a manager in the perennials section at the local nursery, and then as a municipal horticulturist in charge of more than 20 gardens around the city. I've grown perennials from seed, potted them bare-rooted, divided them, deadheaded them, treated them for diseases and pests. Everything I've learned over the years I share here in this book - Perennial Classics.
©2017 Melinda R. Cordell (P)2018 Melinda R. Cordell
Circle of Nine: Novella Collection
Summary
Return to the Celtic magic that began with the suspenseful, award-winning novel Circle of Nine: Beltany. Descended from a legendary Celtic tribe that guards the secrets of the ancient stone circles, the Quinn women have a great responsibility to protect their pagan rituals and way of life. As members of the formidable Circle of Nine, they celebrate the holidays of the year from Yule to Samhain, keeping the traditions of the Tuatha de Danann alive through the centuries against insurmountable odds. We first met these women in Circle of Nine - Beltany, and now, a set of three novellas reveals more of their engaging stories. In Bressa’s Banishment, the power struggle between Father Banan and village healer Bressa Gormley unfolds amidst accusations of treachery, heresy, and murder. Can the Circle protect their trusted healer and the path of the Tuatha against a growing religious fervor? Dervla’s Destiny brings us to medieval Ireland where the beloved character Dervla Quinn learns of her gifts and fights tremendous loss, betrayal, and violence, all the while never giving up on finding the love she deserves. In Phoebe's Mission, when an evil force on a quest for ultimate power threatens the Circle of Nine, Phoebe Quinn must leave Ireland for the first time and travel to the United States to protect their way of life. Along the way, she meets the handsome Macklin Scott, taking her mission - and possibly her future - on a far different course than expected.
©2016 Valerie Biel (P)2020 Valerie Biel
If You're a Tomato I'll Ketchup With You: Tomato Gardening Tips and Tricks
Summary
The National Gardening Association has found that, among vegetable gardeners, tomatoes are their favorite plant to grow. One in three Americans have a vegetable garden, and nine out of 10 of those gardens have tomatoes in them. Tomatoes range in size from gigantic beefsteak tomatoes that can weigh up to a half-pound to the smallest cherry tomato about the size of a marble. You can grow heavy-yielding hybrids or open-pollinated heirloom varieties in different colors, shades, and sizes. You can choose early varieties that set fruit when it’s cool outside, mid-season varieties, and late-maturing varieties that will give you the biggest fruits but take 80 to 90 days to do it. Sometimes you’ll need about 120 days to get a decent harvest, but hey, at least you get tomatoes! Tomatoes are so versatile and so good. You can cook them a million different ways or you can eat them, sun-warmed and delicious, straight off the vine. Some people grab a cherry tomato, a leaf of basil, and a slice of mozzarella cheese, and eat them like that. Welcome to the world of tomato gardening. There’s nothing as sweet and good as a sun-warmed tomato fresh from the garden on a hot summer afternoon. It’s no wonder that tomatoes are the most popular vegetable in America (though botanically, tomatoes are a fruit). Cordell’s audiobook walks you through the steps in raising tomatoes – through starting tomato seeds, planting (and tricks for planting tomatoes early), and staking and caging tomatoes. Listeners learn how to fight off diseases and insect pests, decipher the mysterious letters on a tomato tag, how to harvest tomatoes, and how to dry, can, or freeze tomatoes for next year. With plenty of information for advanced gardeners, ready help for beginning gardeners, lots of expert knowledge, and a smidgen of wit, If You’re a Tomato will guide you in the ways of the vegetable garden with a minimum of fuss and feathers. And also with a minimum of weeding. Nobody likes weeding.
©2017 Melinda R. Cordell (P)2017 Melinda R. Cordell