Garden Resources

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...

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...

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...

The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible : How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers

The Vegetable Gardener's Container Bible : How to Grow a Bounty of Food in Pots, Tubs, and Other Containers By Edward C. Smith Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Best-selling...

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...

Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook: Perfectly Timed Gardening for Your Most Bountiful Harvest Ever

by Jennifer Kujawski, Ron Kujawski   Whether you’re a seasoned gardener determined to increase crop yields or starting your very first vegetable garden, the Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook will help you...

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...

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...

Homegrown Whole Grains

Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and MoreBy 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,...

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...

Weedless Gardening

By Lee Reich Garden like Mother Nature, with an organic system that’s good for plants and good for people.Say good-bye to backaches and weed problems! Lee Reich’s organic Weedless Gardening eschews the traditional yearly digging up...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...