Hello Spring: Gardening

Titles to encourage your green thumb.

Updated February 9, 2026
Carver County Library
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All new square foot gardening : the world's most popular growing method to harvest more food from less space
Paper Book
This fully revised and updated 4th edition of All New! Square Foot Gardening brings the world's favorite gardening method to a whole new generation of gardeners.
Beginner's guide to garden planning and design : 50 simple gardening ideas for adding style & personality to your outdoor space
Yoest, Helen
Paper Book
Gardeners are generally always looking for inspiration. In the forward of Planning & Designing Your First Garden: 50 Ways to Add Style for Personal Creativity, P. Allen Smith states, "Helen has outlined 50 ways to add style to express one's personal creativity in the garden--when in fact her 50 will...
The essential guide to bulbs : grow a bounty of beautiful bulbs in gardens and containers
Carey, Jenny Rose
"Infectious and encouraging...this book is indeed "essential" reading for expert gardeners as well as newbies just dipping their trowel into bulb growing." ―The Seattle Times "This beautifully photographed, comprehensive resource...offers deep knowledge and encouragement...
Essential guide to perennial gardening : techniques and know-how for planning, planting, and tending low-maintenance perennial plantings
Paper Book
Learn how to build an enduring, resilient, and biodiverse landscape prized by pollinators and people alike from the foremost authority on gardening in North America. The second book in the American Horticultural Society's series of growing guides, Essential Guide to...
The fragrant flower garden : growing, arranging, and preserving natural scents
Bittner, Stefani
Paper Book
Make your garden and home look and smell heavenly with this accessible gardening guide that explains how to grow fragrant flowers outdoors and bring natural scents indoors by creating floral arrangements, scented beauty products, and more. "A practical guide to a life...
Grow Great Vegetables Minnesota and Wisconsin
Cohen, Bevin
Paper Book
Get the inside dirt, Minnesota and Wisconsin! The ultimate guide to growing food in the North Star and Badger states! This must-have guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs provides you with insider advice on climate zones, average frost dates, and growing...
Martha Stewart's gardening handbook : the essential guide to designing, planting, and growing
Stewart, Martha
Paper Book
An instant New York Times Bestseller "If you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for a decade, get a dog. And if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make a garden."  --Martha Stewart, Martha Netflix Documentary<...
Starter vegetable gardens : 24 no-fail plans for small organic gardens
Pleasant, Barbara
Paper Book
Best-selling gardening author Barbara Pleasant makes organic vegetable gardening easy, fun, and rewarding with detailed planting and care designs for 24 beginner-friendly gardens to fit any site, whether it's a tiny side yard, a border, a trellis alongside the house, or a front yard. ...

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