Garden Planning

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

Updated February 19, 2025
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Starting & saving seeds : grow the perfect vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers for your garden
Thompson-Adolf, Julie
Paper Book
Grow fabulous food and flowers from seeds, thenĀ save seeds to make next year's garden even better. Ā  Creating dinner from food you've grown provides a fantastic sense of accomplishment. Now, imagine the pleasure of starting plants from seeds,...
Growing vegetables : all the know-how and encouragement you need to grow -- and fall in love with! -- your brand new food garden
Sowards, Jessica.
Paper Book
Growing Vegetables (The First-Time Gardener) is an essential tool for newbie gardeners, handing them all the practical and inspirational know-how they need to grow a fruitful garden, even if its their very first time sinking a seed into the soil.
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!Ā  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...
1-minute gardener
Pember, Mat.
Paper Book
The Little Veggie Patch Co. has taken the mystery out of - and put the fun back into - growing fruit and vegetables. No matter how much or how little space you have, whether it's in the sprawling suburbs or an inner-city high rise, the Little Veggie Patch team will have you growing your own food in...
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 modern homestead garden : growing self-sufficiency in any size backyard
Pilarchik, Gary.
Paper Book
Filled with easy-to-employ ideas and lessons for improving your food self-sufficiency no matter how much land you have, The Modern Homestead Garden focuses on planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving food.
Sustainable gardening : grow a "greener" low-maintenance landscape with fewer resources
Simeone, Vincent A.
Paper Book
Sustainable Gardening puts gardeners on the eco-friendly path by providing all the necessary guidance to create and care for a stable, resource-savvy, and gorgeous landscape.
No-waste kitchen gardening : regrow your leftover greens, stalks, seeds, and more
Elzer-Peters, Katie.
Paper Book
Learn to grow and re-propagate produce from kitchen scraps like carrot stumps and apple cores with No-Waste Kitchen Gardening.
The plant propagator's bible A step-by-step guide to propagating every plant in your garden
Smith, Miranda.
Ebook
The food forest handbook : design and manage a home-scale perennial polyculture garden
Frey, Darrell
Paper Book
Create abundance through this unique approach to low-maintenance, high-yield, sustainable food production A food forest is a productive landscape developed around a mix of trees and perennials. Rooted in permaculture principles, this integrated approach to gardening incorporates a...
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 rows...
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 garĀ­dener, 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
Carson Arthur has a wealth of knowledge to guide your gardening decisions and set you up for success with delicious veggies in any space. Six years ago, Carson bought a small plot of land two hours outside of the city to try his hand at having his own farm. To be fair, as a gardener by trade, and...
Charles Dowding's skills for growing : sowing, spacing, planting, picking, watering and more
Dowding, Charles.
Paper Book
The knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles' decades of experience Grow vegetables easily throughout the year Use time creatively to maximize growth Learn cost-effective and productive-per-area methods Learn to...
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...
Composting inside and out : 14 methods to fit your lifestyle
Davies, Stephanie
Paper Book
Rethink Your Refuse Hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste are produced in the U.S. annually, and the landfills simply store it, not eliminate it. Recycling diverts significant amounts of waste, but the fact remains that the majority of landfill space is occupied by...
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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