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!

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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!

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The good garden : how to nurture pollinators, soil, native wildlife, and healthy food--all in your own backyard
McLaughlin, Chris
Paper Book
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?
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<...
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...
Prairie up : an introduction to natural garden design
Vogt, Benjamin
Paper Book
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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