Garden Planning

Recommended reads to help you prepare, plant, and harvest nutritious food.

Updated February 19, 2025
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Beginner's garden : a practical guide to growing vegetables & fruit without getting your hands too dirty
Mitchell, Alex
Paper Book
This book offers a fun and lighthearted guide to growing your own salads, herbs, vegetables, and fruit, armed with little more than a trowel and some seedlings. Aimed at complete beginners, it de-mystifies the gardening process with sound practical and seasonal advice, lots of hints and tips for...
Rebel gardening : a beginner's handbook to creating an organic urban garden
Vitale, Alessandro (Gardener)
Paper Book
This is the ultimate beginner's guide to establishing and tending an organic kitchen garden in any urban space, no matter how small, written by the YouTuber and TikToker known as Spicy Moustache. Do you live in the city and yearn for the space and time to grow your own food and...
Grow food for free
Richards, Huw
Paper Book
Zero cost, low effort and a long-term solution to your fresh produce needs!  Grow your own food in your home garden, acreage or container, and look forward to a bountiful harvest year-round. You can plant fruit and veggies at home without spending a penny, and Huw Richard's...
The urban garden : 101 ways to grow food and beauty in the city
Jentz, Kathy.
Paper Book
The Urban Garden features dozens of ways city dwellers can creatively grow food, flowers, and fun, no matter how much-or how little-space you have.
Gardening for everyone : growing vegetables, herbs, and more at home
Watkins, Julia
Paper Book
A guide to creating and growing a backyard garden simply and sustainably--from planning to planting to harvest, with profiles of essential vegetables and herbs, ecological tips, and fun and creative projects Growing food in your backyard (or even on a porch or windowsill!)...
The plant propagator's bible A step-by-step guide to propagating every plant in your garden
Smith, Miranda.
Paper Book
With her reader-friendly, easy-to-follow directions, a veteran horticulture teacher demonstrates all the ways to cultivate new plants--whether from seed or cuttings or with techniques such as layering, grafting, and budding Creating new plants from existing ones is one of the most...
All new square foot gardening : more projects, new solutions, grow vegetables anywhere
Bartholomew, Mel.
Paper Book
Square Foot Gardening is the most practical, foolproof way to grow a home garden, whether you're growing an urban garden, or have an entire backyard.
Growing perfect vegetables : a visual guide to raising and harvesting prime garden produce
Paper Book
Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables is a practical pocket guide that answers the age old question for gardeners: when is a fruit or vegetable ripe?
Edible spots & pots : small-space gardens for growing vegetables and herbs in containers, raised beds, and more
Hirvela, Stacey.
Paper Book
It's time for home gardeners to rethink the traditional garden and explore the wide variety of options for growing edibles in "anywhere" gardens--from decorative pots and raised beds to unusual growing bags, hanging pouches, and tomato rings. These contained gardens are more manageable than long...
Life in the Garden : Tales and Tips for Growing Food in Every Season
Damrosch, Barbara.
Paper Book
"Drawing on a lifetime of organic gardening, Barbara Damrosch collects her lessons learned and wisdom gained into an easy-to-read-and-enjoy overview of kitchen gardening. For the new gar­dener, there is encouragement on top of nuts-and-bolts advice. For every gardener, there is inspiration to...
The vegetable grower's handbook : unearth your garden's full potential
Richards, Huw
Paper Book
Garden efficiently and grow more food - Huw Richards shows you how. Following the success of Veg in One Bed and Grow Food for Free, in The Vegetable Grower's Handbook Huw shares his tried-and-tested approaches from his own garden so you can unearth your garden's potential. ...
Growing under cover : techniques for a more productive, weather-resistant, pest-free vegetable garden
Jabbour, Niki.
Paper Book
Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today's vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold...
Vegetables, chickens & bees : an honest guide to growing your own food anywhere
Arthur, Carson.
Paper Book
Everyone's in the garden! And there's no better time to grow your own vegetables than now. For gardening success--in any space!--this is the only book you need. Want to grow your own veggies but don't know how? Whatever type of space you have (backyard, front yard, balcony, patio...
The healthy vegetable garden : a natural, chemical-free approach to soil, biodiversity and managing pests and diseases
Morgan, Sally
Paper Book
Whether you're an experienced gardener, homesteader, or market farmer, this A-Z, soil-to-table guide shows you how to reduce chemical inputs; naturally enrich your growing ecology; and create a hardy, nutrient-dense, and delicious crop. "There are few gardeners (or farmers) I...
Raised bed gardening : all the know-how you need to build and grow a raised bed garden
CaliKim.
Paper Book
Raised Bed Gardening (First-Time Gardener) is an essential beginner's guide to building, filling, and growing a raised bed vegetable garden.
Field guide to urban gardening : how to grow plants no matter where you live
Espiritu, Kevin.
Paper Book
Field Guide to Urban Gardening helps you choose the best methods to match your unique small-space challenges and growing goals, and provides the nuts-and-bolts information you need to participate in any method you choose.
Raised bed revolution : build it, fill it, plant it... garden anywhere!
Nolan, Tara
Paper Book
Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is the definitive guidebook to mastering this consistently proven and effective gardening method. Raised Bed Revolution provides you with information on size requirements for...
The Raised Bed Book
Hurrion, David.
Paper Book
Whether you want to garden at a more accessible height, improve soil fertility, nurture plants with needs, or simply enjoy a closer sensory experience, growing in raised beds will help you reach new heights in the garden. Raised beds are possible in any-size garden, even on...
DIY hydroponic gardens
Baras, Tyler.
Paper Book
Farmer Tyler show home DIYers how to build over a dozen hydroponics growing systems, some of which cost only a few dollars to make.
Home hydroponics : small-space DIY growing systems for the kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, and bath
Baras, Tyler.
Paper Book
Home Hydroponics presents fully illustrated plans for building over a dozen different beautiful, home-based DIY hydroponic growing systems to cultivate your own food indoors.
Tiny space gardening : growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs in small outdoor spaces
Pennington, Amy
Paper Book
" A n an incredibly handy manual full of information on how to grow plants insmall spaces." -GOOP The beginner's complete guide to urban, small space and container gardening from "our windowsill guru." -Bon Appetit This vibrant updated 2nd...

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