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...

The Beginner's Guide to Dehydrating Food

The Beginner's Guide to Dehydrating Food, 2nd Edition by Teresa Marrone   Drying fruit, vegetables, and beans and creating fruit leather, meat jerky, and herb blends at home is easy, safe, and satisfying. Photographic step-by-step...

100 Plants to Feed the Birds

100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat By Laura Erickson The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends  will learn how they can expand their activity...

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 European...

Botany for Gardeners

Botany for GardenersBy 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...

Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings Of PlantsBy Robin Wall Kimmerer NATIONAL BESTELLER Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition...

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...

Garden Allies

Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and ThrivingBy Frederique Lavoipierre The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards and gardens are overwhelmingly on our side—they...

Gardening with Biochar

Gardening with Biochar: Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal: Grow Healthier Plants, Create Nutrient-Rich Soil, and Increase Your HarvestBy Jeff Cox Bioactivated charcoal — called biochar — is the new darling of...

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...