Garden Resources

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...

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 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...

Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round

Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-RoundBy Barbara Pleasant   Whether selecting the right variety of pumpkin for pie filling or the...

Homegrown Whole Grains

By Sara Pitzer This invaluable guide shows you exactly how to grow, harvest, process, store, and cook nine of the most common whole grains: wheat, corn, barley, millet, oats, rice, rye, spelt, and quinoa. Cultivating these crops is surprisingly easy,...

Let It Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition)

By Stu Campbell Stu Campbell provides an in-depth explanation of how composting works and offers clear instructions for a variety of both traditional and modern methods for successfully creating your own compost.   Transform leaves, grass, and...

Mini Meadows

By Mike Lizotte   Create low-cost, low-maintenance flower-filled plots around the yard that provide habitat for pollinators, reduce mowing, and address problem areas with special plantings for shady, damp, erosion-prone, or deer-susceptible...

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat: Grow a Bounty of Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers by Mastering the Art of Succession Planting by Meg McAndrews Cowden   In Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, home gardeners will learn how the principle of...