
There are a lot of new gardening books to help you get ready for planting and landscaping. Gardening books make great gifts or inspire you to improve your own backyard garden no matter your age or physical ability.
There are a lot of good authors who will help inspire you to decorate, cook, preserve food, or craft using your home grown flowers and vegetables. Be adventurous and at least try a new idea once a month.
I always like to visit books.google.com to find out of print gardening books. There are so many wonderful books there.
This book shows how older gardeners can enjoy gardening even with
mobility problems. Author Patty Cassidy gives plenty of good and simple ideas
and techniques on how to create and maintain gardens according to your
lifestyle, how to choose plants that will awake all of your senses, and how to
easily use every day containers, raised garden beds and boxes. Even if you’re
not elderly or have mobility problems, this book is full of great garden
landscape ideas too.
This is author Mel Bartholomew’s newest edition of his popular
book series. He gives you step-by-step instructions for becoming a successful
gardener. He’s “weeded” through what works and doesn’t for the typical backyard
gardener. He’s totally improved and refined techniques for vertical gardening,
pest control, herb and vegetable gardening. It’s a good and easy read for any
age.
This is a good book and is specifically written for urban
gardeners who can only use patios, balconies and small garden spaces to grow
delicious vegetables and herbs. Author Jeff Haase shows you how to make a small
urban space into an impressive garden that will make your neighbors envious of
you.
This book is full of recipes using vegetables and herbs that most
backyard gardeners grow. Most of the recipes are simple and foods that we all
commonly eat. What makes Miche Bacher different than most garden authors is
that he shows you how to use flowers in your recipes too. I didn’t know that
you can make violet jam, lavender lemonade or pansy petal pancakes. I’m going
to try the carrot sunflower cake recipe.
This book has everything you need to know about plant combinations, interesting garden
structures and easy to make planting beds. Author Emily Tepe shows you how you to
grow tomatoes directly into your landscape beds. It’s a fun way to incorporate
the edible landscape techniques. I like how she incorporates color schemes of
flowers and includes companion planting into her garden beds.
This experienced author will show you how to turn your vegetable
and flower gardens into easy and pretty edible gifts for family and friends.
You can even use her ideas for selling at farmers markets. Her ideas are
definitely show stoppers. The book is an easy read and will give you great
ideas on how to group herbs, flowers and vegetables into a garden and gift
basket. She’ll show you how to grow flower bulbs like tulips in pretty teacups,
how to personalize your own seed packets as give-a-ways, how to make your own
bubble baths using your home grown chamomile, lavender, roses and other flowers
and herbs. You’ll be very excited to find her recipe for fruit lip balm or how
to make your own Italian pizza window box. Look for this on Amazon or Google
Books.
Authors Culp and Levine always give great garden, landscape and
plant care ideas. He writes books for folks who often struggle at choosing
plants for their particular landscape. He always enjoys creating easy to care
for colorful plants. He’s an expert at companion planting flowers and
vegetables. For instance, marigolds pretty much are the bug repellent for any
vegetable plant. His idea is to use pretty flowers that are useful but create a
mood or inspiration amongst boring vegetable gardens.
This is an absolutely great read. You’ll learn how to save money
and time when it comes to buying plants and maintaining your gardens and lawns.
It’s the perfect book for beginning gardeners too. You’ll learn about drought
tolerant plants, no mow grasses, lawn alternatives, the best ground cover plants
for your hardiness zones, artificial turf, the perfect mulch for particular plants
and the difference between landscaping and hardscaping.
I love this book. The author shows you how to create flower
gardens that will invite birds, bees and will completely transform your idea on
how your own backyard can be part of and benefit your local ecosystem. You’ll
learn how to transform trees into bird and animal habitats too. She has so many
great ideas on how to create a haven for birds, bees and butterflies. I often
wonder where butterflies go to rest.
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