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, then save seeds to make next year's garden even better.   Creating dinner from food you've grown provides a fantastic sense of accomplishment. Now, imagine the pleasure of starting plants from seeds,...
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...
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
In The Urban Garden you'll find dozens of inspiring and creative ways to grow flowers, shrubs, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in small spaces and with a limited budget.   Whether you want to grow on a balcony, rooftop, front stoop, or a tiny urban...
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
With this accessible and indispensable gardening reference, discover how little land and effort it takes to start growing and preserving your own healthy organic food. Modern homesteading is a lifestyle focused on living lightly on the land and increasing self...
No-waste kitchen gardening : regrow your leftover greens, stalks, seeds, and more
Elzer-Peters, Katie.
Paper Book
The debut book in the internationally successful No-Waste Gardening series, No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop...
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
This updated third edition of the best-selling gardening book in North America continues to inspire with planting charts, growing tips, and the know-how you need to grow more veggies than ever before. Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced by Mel Bartholomew in...
Growing perfect vegetables : a visual guide to raising and harvesting prime garden produce
Paper Book
Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables is a practical guide that answers the age-old question for gardeners: How do you know when a fruit or vegetable is ripe? Square Foot Gardening is the most popular alternate gardening method<...
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...
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 know who...
Raised bed gardening : all the know-how you need to build and grow a raised bed garden
CaliKim.
Paper Book
Setting up your first raised bed garden? With help from YouTube gardening star CaliKim, you'll soon be growing your own fresh, organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers like a pro. Whether your yard is big or small, raised beds are the perfect fit. They allow...
Field guide to urban gardening : how to grow plants no matter where you live
Espiritu, Kevin.
Paper Book
Join Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening to learn the basics of growing plants, choose the right urban gardening method for you, and troubleshoot any problems you might encounter. If you think it's impossible to grow your own food because you don't have a large yard or you live...
Raised bed revolution : build it, fill it, plant it... garden anywhere!
Nolan, Tara
Ebook
A comprehensive manual to gardening in raised beds, with information on everything from construction, maximizing space and maintaining your garden. Raised bed gardening is the fastest-growing garden strategy today, and Raised Bed Revolution is the definitive guidebook to mastering...
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
With practical information aimed at home DIYers, author Tyler Baras (Farmer Tyler to his fans) shows exactly how to build, plant, and maintain over a dozen unique hydroponic systems, some costing just a few dollars to make. No soil? No sunlight? No problem. A...
Home hydroponics : small-space DIY growing systems for the kitchen, dining room, living room, bedroom, and bath
Baras, Tyler.
Ebook
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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