A beautiful and simple guide to edible gardening
The "garden to table" movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is composting? Is seed saving really worth it? Focusing on sustainable, organic growing practices and plants, The Backyard Gardener is a comprehensive handbook that will help get them started.
Kelly Orzel covers everything from soil selection to growing and harvesting....

Presents advice for growing vegetables throughout the year, discussing such topics as selecting the right vegetables for the season, using succession planting, and building and setting up cold frames.

"Are you ready to become a seed-starting and -saving champion? Author and gardening expert Julie Thompson-Adolf will walk you through every step of the journey, making the entire process a joy. In this book you'll find: Extensive plant entries that cover all the most popular vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers; Tips and hints, such as how to encourage stubborn seeds to germinate; Lists to help you find the best plants to add to your garden, whether...

Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and garden.

A renowned landscape gardener's guide to less expensive, less water-intensive lawns, whether it's a front yard or a fairway. A lush green lawn is one of the great pleasures of the natural world, whether it's outside your front door or on a majestic fairway at a legendary golf course. But anyone who's tried to grow the perfect lawn the conventional way knows it requires an endless cycle of watering and applying synthetic fertilizers and toxic chemical...

If you make good plant choices and create a hospitable indoor environment, you can grow practically any produce you want indoors. Millard shows you how-- with a little patience and the right equipment-- you can grow heartier herbs and produce all year round.

"GrowVeg offers simple recipes for gardening projects that are both attainable and beautiful"-- Vanheems shows how to get your fruits and vegetables off to the very best start. He offers gardening projects that are both attainable and beautiful. From growing salad in a basket to starting a miniature orchard, the projects are suitable for even the first-time gardener. -- adapted from back cover and page 5.

In backyards and all across the world, Straw Bale Gardening has spread with unprecedented speed. The reason? In any climate and on any continent, you can grow beautiful, fresh vegetables where no food has grown before. In Straw Bale Solutions, you will meet dozens of Straw Bale Gardeners who inspire and educate. You will recognize your own gardening challenges and you will see how to use their experiences to write your own SBG success story.--COVER....

"This is the ultimate beginner's guide to establishing and tending an organic kitchen garden in any urban space, no matter how small, written by the YouTuber and TikToker known as Spicy Moustache. Do you live in the city and yearn for the space and time to grow your own food and live more connected with nature and the seasons? Rebel Gardening shows that anyone can grow a garden of delicious organic fruit and vegetables, wildlife-friendly wildflowers...