"Want to create a garden you can enjoy? Not sure where to begin? Beginner Gardening Step by Step is your foolproof companion to creating a flourishing garden. Packed full of creative ideas with simple step-by-step instructions and clear images, this book teaches the basics you need to care for lawns, shrubs, flowers, and vegetables. Just pick up this books and get gardening!"--

"With over 30,000 heirloom rose bushes, Grace Rose Farm is the rose destination, whether you're a florist looking for that just-so hue of rose for a high-end wedding, a customer who wants to find a one-of-a-kind bouquet to ship to their mom, one of Poulson's 25,000 newsletter subscribers looking for tips on growing their own roses, or among the nearly 200,000 followers who swoon over her images on Instagram. The farm, based in Santa Ynez, California,...

"Get all the indoor and outdoor gardening tips and advice you need to start growing herbs today! From soil preparation, lighting, how often to water, pests and disease prevention, important things to know when planting indoors verses outdoors, and more, expert gardener and author Kim Roman shares invaluable tips inside this book to help you produce high-yield quality herbs at home. Kim also shares quick reference charts and plant profiles for 51 of...

"Do you love having a balcony but aren't sure how you can use it as a space to grow? Do you feel that being a few stories up in a building stops you from growing delicious crops? If the answer is "yes," then it's time you read this book. Patrick Vernuccio is a small-space grower with a big message-and even bigger Instagram following. Building on Patrick's popular 60-second reels, Tomatoes and Basil on the 5th Floor will showcase easy and informative...

« "Ben Hartman is a true innovator for the small farm."-Curtis Stone, author of The Urban Farmer It's time to think big about small farms. Award-winning author and "green leader" (Grist) Ben Hartman shares practical how-to tips, personal stories, and surprising examples of cutting-edge farmers and innovators around the world to show us how. In the early 1970s, US Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz infamously commanded farmers to "get big or get out."...

"With hundreds of North American bird species facing population decline or at risk of extinction, right now is the perfect time to create a home-based habitat garden that offers birds the resources they need to safely feed, migrate, breed, and thrive. Thankfully, making your outdoor space a secure and comfortable haven for many different bird species isn't a Herculean task. It's a matter of understanding the needs of our avian friends and how native...

A modern and practical guide to growing your own cut flowers, The Grower's Guide will gently guide you through all the essential steps from sowing and germination to sprouting, re-potting and harvesting your glorious blooms. Including beautiful photography that demystifies the growing process in Milli Proust's unique style, discover how to plant with confidence and fill your life with flowers. Including floral features and seasonal highlights as well...

"This lushly photographed idea book proves that it is possible to create a glamorous outdoor space of ever-changing color, teeming with life, in the smallest of spaces, whether a patio, terrace, or front porch. This inspirational guide demonstrates how a glorious outdoor space is possible, even with only a small patio and a few pots. Featuring detailed photos and text by Parkinson who has been named a rising gardening star by Architectural Digest,...

A cookbook of vegetable-forward recipes celebrating the beauty of freshly grown produce. The Side Gardener is the story of how Rosie Daykin—a bestselling and award-winning cookbook author who also happens to garden a little on the side—turned a languishing patch of land beside her home into an informal working garden. With love and attention, the garden blossomed with a bounty of fresh vegetables and fruit, a near endless supply of beautiful...

Jekka is the authority on herbs. She grows over 400 different culinary and medicinal herbs at her herb farm in SouthGloucestershire, UK. In this comprehensive guide, she details how to grow herbs in the garden, in containers and from seed, and guides you through propagation, division, cuttings, harvesting and yearly maintenance. During the past forty years of gardening, Jekka has witnessed the change in climate and pests and diseases, and how they...