Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden

By Jessica Walliser, Jeff Gillman   Reflecting the latest research on how plants influence and communicate with each other, Jessica Walliser offers a research-based guide to companion planting—a gardening method that uses strategic...

Shallow-Pit Garden Composting: The Easy, No-Smell, No-Turning Way to Create Organic Compost For Your Garden

By Caleb Warnock Learn how to make your own shallow pit garden compost . . . without the smell! Many gardeners give up making backyard compost in frustration—the compost pile smells, it requires too much work to turn the heap, and the...

Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots

By Andrea Bellamy   You can grow vegetables anywhere, including balconies, porches, walls, or wherever you find room. In Small-Space Vegetable Gardens Andrea Bellamy explains how to grow a bounty of delicious edibles in a minimal...

Teaming with Fungi

Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower's Guide to MycorrhizaeBy Jeff Lowenfels Teaming with Fungi is the first book to accessibly explain the essential symbiotic relationship between soil-dwelling mycorrhizal fungi and plants. “Accomplishes what...

Teaming with Microbes

Teaming with MicrobesBy Wayne Lewis There is an alternative to the vicious circle of chemical fertilizers: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web—the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions...

Teaming with Nutrients

Teaming with NutrientsBy Jeff Lowenfels Teaming with Nutrients will make you a better informed, more successful, more environmentally responsible gardener and will give you a new appreciation for the plants you grow.​“Gets deep into the...

The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables by Lorene Edwards Forkner

Millions of people started vegetable gardening this year for the first time—this beginner-friendly guide offers them all the information they need to do so successfully.“For new and novice gardeners who want a straightforward, unfussy guide...

The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs

By Robert E. Gough, Cheryl Moore-Gough   Learn how to collect, save, and cultivate seeds from more than 300 types of plants.   Enjoy your favorite varieties of garden plants year after year with this comprehensive guide to...

The Modern Cottage Garden: A Fresh Approach to a Classic Style

The Modern Cottage Garden: A Fresh Approach to a Classic StyleBy Greg Loades This design-forward guide teaches gardeners how to blend the best aspects of two important styles: the traditional cottage garden and the New Perennial movement...

The New Gardener’s Handbook

The New Gardener's Handbook  By Daryl Beyers   From one of the experts at the New York Botanical Garden, this guide shares the science of good gardening in a design-forward, beginner-friendly way that will appeal to new gardeners everywhere...

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in Southern California

by Geri Galian Miller   This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in Southern California and provides basic care and maintenance for each. Grow your own food...

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest

by Michael VanderBrug   This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Midwest and provides basic care and maintenance for each.   How to grow your own...

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Northeast

by Marie Iannotti   This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Northeast and provides basic care and maintenance for each. Grow your own food...

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

by Lorene Edwards Forkner   This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Pacific Northwest and provides basic care and maintenance for each...

The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast

by Ira Wallace   This Timber Press Guide features an A–Z section that profiles the 50 vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow best in the Southeast and provides basic care and maintenance for each.   How to grow your own...