National Gardening Month
 
The 5-Minute Gardener: Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People by Nicole Johnsey Burke
The 5-Minute Gardener: Year-Round Garden Habits for Busy People
by Nicole Johnsey Burke

This guide encourages readers to cultivate a year-round gardening habit with five minutes of daily commitment, offering quick tasks and seasonal plans that make it manageable for anyone, regardless of space, while also highlighting the benefits of fresh produce and mindfulness through connection with nature.
The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants and How to Eat Them by Linda Ziedrich
The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants and How to Eat Them
by Linda Ziedrich

This book is for cooks and gardeners interested in bringing novelty and variety into their lives and homes. It follows each season of planting and harvesting--featuring nearly 35 often overlooked edibles, with illustrations, and a ... recipe for each, encouraging us to see our gardens as an integrated whole and a year-round practice. Calling upon decades of Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver experience, Linda Ziedrich includes ... cultural context and personal connections to each plant. The result is the story of how and why an adventurous gardener cultivated a unique cuisine for herself and her family--and how you can too--
A garden miscellany : an illustrated guide to the elements of the garden
by Suzanne Staubach

A collection of short essays that describe the history, evolution and modern use of home gardens, explaining how geometry plays a role in garden design, what a ha-ha is and how fairy gardens have their roots in the Tang dynasty. Illustrations.
Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy by Leslie Bennett
Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy
by Leslie Bennett

A visual feast of garden design inspiration and guidance that embraces diversity and teaches you how to create a lush, colorful, magical, and meaningful garden wonderland of your own--
Gardener Scott's Guide to Raised Bed Gardening by Scott A. Wilson
Gardener Scott's Guide to Raised Bed Gardening
by Scott A. Wilson

Gardener's Scott's Guide to Raised Bed Gardening is replete with hundreds of beautiful photos that will both instruct and inspire as you explore the wonderful world of raised bed gardening.
Gardening hacks : 300+ time and money saving hacks
by Jon VanZile

From indoor herbs and container gardens to backyard vegetables, annuals, and perennials, gardening is a rewarding endeavor. You can liven up your home-- and cut down on your grocery list. VanZile provides hundreds hacks to help you go from seed to harvest, whether you're just getting started or trying to improve your output
Gardening step by step / : Step by Step
by Philip Clayton

Drawing from the Simple Steps to Success series, this practical gardening manual shows you how to keep your garden gorgeous year-round with step-by-step instructions, checklists, charts and illustrations covering topics such as high and low maintenance plants and pruning advice.
Gardening with less water : low-tech, low-cost techniques : use up to 90% less water in your garden
by David A Bainbridge

Demonstrates how to use low-tech and repurposed materials, like buried clay pots, wicking systems and other porous containers, to deliver water directly to a plant's roots, discourage evaporation and reduce watering needs. By the co-author of Passive Solar Architecture. Original.
Grow now : how we can save our health, communities, and planet-one garden at a time
by Emily Murphy

A regenerative organic gardener, photographer, podcaster and designer shares her simple principles for regenerative gardening to foster biodiversity and improve soil health by choosing plants that cycle more carbon back into the earth and vegetables that improve soil fertility. 
How to create a wildlife garden : encouraging birds, bees, butterflies and bugs into your outside space
by Christine Lavelle

An inspiring and accessible award-winning book shows how simple gardening techniques can provide a dazzling plant display while helping the native wildlife. Illustrations.
How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own Food Year-Round: Ultimate Guide to Vertical, Container, and Hydroponic Gardening by Kim Roman
How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own Food Year-Round: Ultimate Guide to Vertical, Container, and Hydroponic Gardening
by Kim Roman

A complete guide filled with a host of valuable information and DIY projects, Ultimate Guide to Indoor Gardening details how to grow food in your home. From growing vegetables, microgreens, and herbs to hydroponic gardening, troubleshooting, and more, learn to grow fresh produce all year-round, no matter where you live. With expert tips on composting, container gardening for both root and above ground vegetables, fermentation, and more, this must-have resource is a one-stop shop on everything you need to know about indoor food production and how to maximize your indoor space!
Illinois, Indiana & Ohio month-by-month gardening : what to do each month to have a beautiful garden all year
by Beth Botts

Includes "tips and advice for each month, from January to December; all major plant groups, from annuals and perennials to groundcovers, trees, shrubs, edibles, and everything in between; specific when-to and how-to advice on planning, planting, watering, fertilizing, care, and problem-solving (including pest control); color photographs and illustrations to demonstrate how-to techniques
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More by Katie Elzer-Peters
Kitchen Gardening for Beginners: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More
by Katie Elzer-Peters

Discover how to easily regrow vegetable discards and scraps and turn them into harvestable, edible plants--even if you have no gardening experience. Learn how to grow indoors and maintain your regrown plants until they are ready for harvest. The accompanying photos highlight each step of the process, showing you what the root section, seed, leaf, stem, or other plant part should look like when you replant it and then what it should look like when it's ready for harvest. Many of the featured vegetables can be regrown in water or in soil. Full instructions are supplied.--
The lifelong gardener : garden with ease & joy at any age
by Toni Gattone

A Master Gardener offers a vast array of tips and tricks for gardening smarter, not harder, through her tried-and-true methods that help eliminate the physical strain of gardening. 10,000 first printing. Illustrations.
Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman
Love Letter to a Garden
by Debbie Millman

Debbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener--a garden is a journey that develops over time, through space, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden--and the plants she has collected along the way--a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony--
Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing by Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: The Essential Guide to Designing, Planting, and Growing
by Martha Stewart

An instant New York Times BestsellerIf you want to be happy for a year, get married. If you want to be happy for a decade, get a dog. And if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make a garden. --Martha Stewart, Martha Netflix DocumentaryThe first fully comprehensive gardening guide from the legendary Martha Stewart in more than 30 years, with everything you need to know to curate a beautiful, thriving gardenMaster the art of gardening with Martha Stewart's Gardening Handbook: an in-depth guide that will teach you the knowledge and skills to cultivate a flourishing garden. From understanding soil composition to learning about different types of plants and gardening methods, you'll discover the secrets to creating a stunning outdoor oasis.Martha covers: the nuances of careful planningsoil testingdrainagewatering and rainfallunderstanding plant hardiness zonesthe art of choosing the healthiest plants for your specific climatePlus, all different kinds of plants like: annuals, perennials, and bulbssucculents and cactivegetable and herb gardenstrees and shrubsFrom designing your garden to selecting the right varieties for your region, this manual has every detail covered. Whether you're a green thumb or a gardening novice, this gorgeous book, filled with practical tips and detailed explanations, will arm you with the knowledge to help your garden thrive. As Martha likes to say, gardening is a never-ending opportunity for growth.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Micro food gardening : project plans and plants for growing fruits and veggies in tiny spaces
by Jen McGuinness

"Not everyone has room to grow a full-sized tomato plant or a melon vine that takes up more room than your car, but everyone has space for a micro tomato that tops out at the height of a Barbie doll or a dwarf watermelon with vines that won't grow any longer than your leg. From miniature herbs and salad greens to tiny strawberry plants, baby beets, and mini cabbages, you'll quickly discover that micro gardening offers a surprisingly diverse and delicious array of edible opportunities. Plus, with step-by-step instructions for a plethora of DIY micro food gardening projects, you'll be up and growing in no time at all. Whether you micro garden on a high-rise balcony, an itty bitty patio, a front porch container, or even in a basket on the handlebars of yourbicycle, there are mini food plants ready to start cranking out fresh produce just a few weeks after planting"
My Gardening Life by Mary Berry
My Gardening Life
by Mary Berry

More than a memoir. A lifetime of gardening inspiration. Well-known and celebrated as a cookery writer and presenter, in My Gardening Life Mary Berry shares her second great love: gardening. From a passion that was sparked in her childhood as she helped her father in their vegetable patch, gardening has become a source of great joy to Mary. In this deeply personal account, she reveals all that she has learned through a lifetime of growing, including: The gardens she has loved and tendedThe plants she loves to growThe people who have inspired and influenced herHow she gardens through each seasonWhat gardening means to herFull of anecdotes, pearls of wisdom, and beautiful photos of Mary's own garden, My Gardening Life is a unique memoir told through the gardens Mary has loved. As she says, In another life, I may have been a gardener.
The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-Round Harvests by Huw Richards
The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-Round Harvests
by Huw Richards

Explores regenerative methods to create a sustainable, productive kitchen garden year-round, with advice on growing diverse edible plants, incorporating perennials, optimizing garden design, and enhancing aesthetics and environmental benefits through seasonal planning and mixed planting techniques.
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living: Season by Season by Linda Vater
A Year of Garden-Inspired Living: Season by Season
by Linda Vater

Bring simplicity and grace into your life, garden, home, and community with this treasured collection of ideas and daily inspiration from garden lifestyle guru Linda Vater. Whether it's connecting with a neighbor over a bowl of homemade soup, displaying a much-adored collection of books, creating personalized seed packets, setting a beautiful seasonal tablescape, or compiling a basket of comforts for someone in need, author Linda Vater (@potagerblog) has gathered a wealth of reflections on how to make the ordinary extraordinary and bring the joy of the garden's seasons back into your life. 
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