Gardening is a fulfilling and enjoyable hobby that is gaining popularity in our current economic climate as more people discover the value of growing their own food. Check out these books and acquire your own green thumb!
Organic Gardening
All-New Illustrated Guide to Gardening: Planning, Selection, Propagation, Organic Solutions by Fern Marshall Bradley and Trevor Cole
Written by experts, this edition contains all-new illustrations, photos, tips, and tricks for everything from organic fertilizing and composting to rotating a vegetable garden.
Grow Great Grub: Organic Food From Small Spaces by Gayla Trail
Gayla Trail shows you how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere - including your patio, balcony, or rooftop.
Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensible Green Resource for Every Gardener by Fern Marshall Bradley, Ellen Phillips, and Barbara Ellis
This is the best tool to help novices start applying organic methods to their plants.
Container Gardening
Garden Anywhere: How to Grow Gorgeous Container Gardens, Herb Gardens, Kitchen Gardens, and More - Without Spending a Fortune by Alys Fowler
This book shows how anyone can create a garden oasis in the smallest of spaces.
Alternative Gardening
American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn by Saxon Holt and John Greenlee
Find out how to transform your resource-sucking lawn into a beautiful and environmentally-friendly meadow.
Year-Round Gardening
Winter Harvest Handbook: Four Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century by Eliot Coleman
A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally-grown produce during the winter season in any climate.
Flower Gardening
Right Rose Right Place by Peter Schneider
When it comes to roses, it's all about location. The right rose will thrive when planted in the perfect spot, and weeks of bountiful blooms are the garderner's reward.
Conscious Gardening
Ask Mother Nature: A Conscious Gardener's Guide by Ellen Vande Visse
A different kind of gardening book, this functions as a spiritual-development manual as well as a beginner's gardening guide.
The Gardener's Life
Down to Earth: Practical Thoughts for Passionate Gardeners by Margot Rochester
This book speaks to the soul of the passionate gardener of any experience level, exploring and detailing all the pleasures that gardeners enjoy from this hobby.
Our Life In Gardens by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd
These renowned garden designers have written an entertaining, fascinating, and unexpectedly moving book about the life and garden they share.
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