Gardening Tips for Adults

April showers bring May flowers, along with the start of an exciting summer gardening season. Get tips, tricks, advice, and ideas from these great books about gardening!

Updated May 3, 2024
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How to garden indoors & grow your own food year round : ultimate guide to vertical, container, and hydroponic gardening
Roman, Kim
Paper Book
No room to garden outside? No problem! A complete guide filled with a host of valuable information and DIY projects, Ultimate Guide to Indoor Gardening shares all the knowledge on how to grow a variety of foods inside your home. From growing vegetables, microgreens, and herbs to hydroponic...
How to create a wildlife garden : encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and bugs into your outside space
Lavelle, Christine
Paper Book
This inspiring and accessible hands-on book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. This new updated edition of the award-winning book (Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the Year) gives easy-to-follow instructions backed up...
The new heirloom garden : designs, recipes, and heirloom plants for cooks who love to garden
Ogden, Ellen
Paper Book
The best-tasting vegetables are heirlooms, the most fragrant flowers are heirlooms, and the most interesting plants are heirlooms. But heirlooms are more than just delicious ingredients or beautiful flowers--their seeds offer us a connection with the earth, and each one tells a story. ...
Fruit : essential know-how and expert advice for gardening success
Farrell, Holly
Paper Book
Discover the secret to successfully growing a wide variety of fruits. Ideal for first-time gardeners, Grow Fruit contains everything you need to know to grow delicious, seasonal fruit at home. From pots of berries to mini-orchards, fruiting plants bring...
A gardener's guide to botany : the biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need
Zona, Scott
Paper Book
A fascinating look at the inner workings of the plant kingdom, written for gardeners.
The backyard homestead guide to growing organic food : a crop-by-crop reference for 62 vegetables, fruits, nuts, and herbs
Cobb, Tanya Denckla
Paper Book
This essential guide to growing a bountiful food garden includes detailed seed-starting, growing, and harvesting information for 62 vegetables, fruits, and herbs, a complete companion-planting guide, and organic pest-control handbook. The latest addition to Storey's bestselling...

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