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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Encyclopedia of gardening
Brickell, Christopher
All your gardening questions are answered in this updated classic guide to planning, planting, and caring for your outside space. Create and maintain your perfect garden with the world's finest and most authoritative source of gardening tips and advice from the experts at the RHS...
How to garden indoors & grow your own food year round : ultimate guide to vertical, container, and hydroponic gardening
Roman, Kim
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
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
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. ...
The good garden : how to nurture pollinators, soil, native wildlife, and healthy food--all in your own backyard
McLaughlin, Chris
What makes a garden good? For Chris McLaughlin, it's about growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies possible, but it's also about giving back. How can your little patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, sequester carbon, and nurture native plants?
A gardener's guide to botany : the biology behind the plants you love, how they grow, and what they need
Zona, Scott
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
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...
The ultimate flower gardener's guide : how to combine shape, color, and texture to create the garden of your dreams
Carey, Jenny Rose
"Full of practical insights, ideas, and inspiration to help you grow the flower-packed garden of your dreams."--Greg Loades, author of The Modern Cottage Garden   The colors, shapes, and scents of flowers are as ravishing to the senses as to the soul. But...
Prairie up : an introduction to natural garden design
Vogt, Benjamin
Connecting to nature with native plants Landscaping with native plants has encouraged gardeners from the Midwest and beyond to embark on a profound scientific, ecological, and emotional partnership with nature. Benjamin Vogt shares his expertise with prairie plants in a richly photographed...

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