New Complete Guide To Gardening

For: Mary A. Reid.

Chapter headings include landscaping, trees, shrubs, animals, roses, vegetables, lawns, houseplants and much more.

Provides information on planning, designing, planting, and caring for flower gardens; contains plans for gardens in a variety of styles; features an encyclopedia of over 450 perennials, annuals, bulbs, roses, ornamental grasses, and ferns; and includes advice from gardeners across the country.

Everything you need to know to create the perfect landscape. Loaded with dazzling ideas and clear step-by-step instructions, this book makes is easy to design, build, plant, and care for the landscape of your dreams. Illustrated throughout in full-colour.

A lush, productive vegetable, herb, and flower garden doesn’t have to require endless hours of time and unlimited energy. No-dig gardening methods let you keep the rototiller in the shed and focus on what you like best—planting and harvesting! With the step-by-step instructions in The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening, you’ll discover how to build healthy, easy-to-plant garden soil by adding layers of organic matter using one of several different no-dig techniques. Whether you garden in a small, urban backyard or on several acres in the country, this simple approach lets you grow more food and blooms than ever before, and leave the gas-guzzling tiller behind forever. Plus, when you don't disturb the soil, weed seeds stay buried deep where they can't germinate and carbon is kept sequestered in the ground. No-dig gardening techniques also lead to reduced watering needs and a healthy population of beneficial soil microbes that help feed your plants by breaking down organic matter and releasing nutrients. In addition to extolling the endless benefits of no-dig growing, author and veggie-growing expert Charlie Nardozzi hands you the tools you need to: Create a new no-dig garden from scratch Transition an existing garden to the no-dig method Build the most productive, nutrient-rich soil possible Recycle yard waste by building a Hugelkultur planting mound Discover more about some great variations of no-dig gardening, including raised beds and containers Bring your no-dig garden indoors for a continuous harvest Welcome oodles of fresh, homegrown veggies, herbs, and flowers into your life—with no back-breaking work required!

#4 on Publishers Weekly's Bestselling Gardening Books list! This new, completely revised edition has over 500 new photographs, 400 new illustrations, 400 new plants and trees, the latest pest control recommendations, fruit and vegetable recommendations, new tips and plants specifically for Southern Texas, plus everything in the first edition.

As surely as gardens change with the seasons, gardening is ever changing. New plants, techniques, materials, and lifestyles are constantly broadening the choices you have and reshaping the way you garden in the West. In response to this natural evolution, the editors of Sunset-the West's most trusted source of gardening information for more than 80 years-have completely redesigned and updated The Western Garden Book in this new 2012 Ninth Edition. Following the best-selling success of the previous editions of The Western Garden Book, this edition includes a fresh new look, thousands of color photographs, fresh illustrations, and an easy-to-follow format. Written by experts for gardeners in the West, this book is an indispensable reference for beginning and expert gardeners alike. The New Western Garden Book features include: A photo gallery shows the West's most innovative gardens, from all-edibles front yards to stylish water-wise and fire-wise gardens to living walls and green roofs-all with ideas you can use. Climate Zone Maps and growing-season graphs for all regions of the West including Alaska and Hawaii. A new "Plant Finder" section helps you choose plants for their garden's problem areas or for special effects. "A to Z Plant Encyclopedia" lists some 8,000 plants that thrive in the West, including more than 500 new ones. Gorgeous color photographs illustrate all plant entries-for the first time ever in The Western Garden Book. "Gardening From Start to Finish" is a new visual guide that leads readers through all steps of making a garden, from soil prep through planting, growing and care, with special sections on natives, veggies, grasses and more.

The information you need, when you need it - season by season, throughout the year. Say goodbye to dreary winter gardens and straggly late summer blooms. Create a garden that looks stunning in every season with this gloriously illustrated book, which is packed with advice on everything from flowers, shrubs and trees to fruit, vegetables, herbs, lawns and water gardens. This season-by-season gardening book contains a wealth of practical advice and inspirational ideas to guarantee success in the garden. Find out when to plant new hedges, how to keep your container plants alive while you're away on a summer holiday, how to protect delicate blossoms from frost, and much, much more. There's also lots of problem-solving advice, from keeping slugs at bay to dealing with moss. The book is organised by season and in each section you'll find a plant selector, describing the plants which are at their best during the season, arranged by colour and type, and a practical diary detailing the jobs that need doing at each time of year to keep your garden in tip top condition.In addition a section on gardening basics helps you to select the best plants for different soils and sites, as well as giving helpful information on tools and equipment, watering, feeding and compost. Interspersed throughout the book are 30 features on particular plants and garden tasks relevant to each season, for example, planting a border, creating a vegetable plot or watering a patio. Whether you want a scented haven, a prolific vegetable garden, a productive greenhouse or a vibrant colourful display, the Reader's Digest Complete Guide to Gardening - Season by Season gives you the professional advice you need to plan the shape, colour and fragrance of your garden successfully all the year round.