Gardening Books

Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden

By Rhonda Massingham Hart From nibbling on fruit bushes to destroying flower beds, unwanted deer pose a frustrating and challenging obstacle to even the most patient gardeners. Rhonda Massingham Hart provides insights into deer behavior and offers a...

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat By Ruth Rogers Clausen, Alan L. Detrick   Offering a wonderful array of potential plant combinations with other deer-resistant...

A Way To Garden

A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season by Margaret Roach   In this lushly-photographed book, iconic garden voice Margaret Roach shows gardeners how to incorporate lessons from her glorious garden into their own home...

Attracting Native Pollinators

By The Xerces Society, Marla Spivak     A complete action plan to protect bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies, and some beetles by providing flowering habitat and nesting sites.   With the recent decline of the...

Botany for Gardeners: Third Edition

By Brian Capon   The essential overview of plant botany, perfect for both beginning and advanced gardeners. “An outstanding and enjoyable introduction to botany, whether the reader is a gardener, or just a garden visitor.”...

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

By Louise Riotte   For over 30 years, this classic companion-gardening guide has outlined the keys to creating a harmoniously varied and bountiful garden.   Plant parsley and asparagus together and you’ll have more of each, but keep...

Epic Tomatoes

Epic Tomatoes by Craig LeHoullier   From Cherokee Purple to Green Zebra, midgets to giants, solids to stripes, explore the how-to of growing, harvesting, and enjoying flavorful tomatoes, including author Craig LeHoullier’s picks for the top...

Fermented Vegetables

Fermented Vegetables by Kirsten K. Shockey, Christopher Shockey   A healthy gut is a happy gut! Fermented Vegetables offers lacto-fermentation fundamentals, recipes for tasty ferments, and ways to enjoy them during meals...

Freeze Fresh

Freeze Fresh : The Ultimate Guide to Preserving 55 Fruits and Vegetables for Maximum Flavor and Versatility by Crystal Schmidt, Eve Kilcher An in-depth guide to the easiest and most economical way to preserve homegrown or locally...

Gardens Are for Growing

Gardens Are for Growingby Chelsea Tornetto, Illustrations by Hsulynn Pang A wonderful book for garden lovers and growing families. Sunshine is for soaking up,and seeds are meant for sowing.Raindrops give small sprouts a drink,and gardens are for...

Grow More Food : A Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Getting the Biggest Harvest Possible from a Space of Any Size

By Colin McCrate, Brad HalmColin McCrate is an experienced CSA farmer and, together with co-author Brad Halm, founder of The Seattle Urban Farm Company, a business that designs, builds, and maintains edible gardens. The work of McCrate and Halm has won...

Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies: How to Create a Customized Herb Garden to Support Your Health & Well-Being

By Maria Noël Groves   Grow an herb garden for good health! Herbalist Maria Noël Groves offers guidance for cultivating a small garden of medicinal plants curated to personal wellness needs or specific health challenges, from...

Grow Your Own Herbs: The 40 Best Culinary Varieties for Home Gardens

by Susan Belsinger, Arthur O. Tucker   Fresh herbs are a kitchen staple, and this hardworking guide details how to grow and use the 40 most important culinary varieties.  Nothing tastes better than herbs harvested fresh from...

Grow Your Soil!

By Diane Miessler, Elaine R. Ingham  The key to success for every gardening venture is rich soil. Achieving that basic building block is easy with this accessible soil improvement guide, which offers a broad understanding of the science of...

Healing Herbal Teas

Healing Herbal Teas: Learn to Blend 101 Specially Formulated Teas for Stress Management, Common Ailments, Seasonal Health, and Immune Support by Sarah Farr   For the thousands of people who turn daily to herbal tea, Healing Herbal...