Beginner's Guide to Gardening

by Creative Homeowner

Overview

All the info you need to be a better gardener, whether you’re just starting out or needing to brush up on your skills.

You don’t have to have a green thumb to have a healthy thriving garden! Inside The Beginner’s Guide to Gardening, you’ll learn:
 

• Skills and Techniques: Valuable expert guide to developing new gardens and taking care of those you already have
• Getting Started: How to choose healthy plants and build productive soil
• Garden Care: Easy-to-follow, time-saving methods and the least toxic disease & pest controls
• Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs: Advice on growing, propagating, and caring for flowers in containers and the garden, with plant encyclopedias
• Roses: How to select, grow, and prune healthy roses, as well as control pests & diseases
• Ground Covers, Trees, Shrubs: Fundamentals on planting, growing, and maintaining, plus detailed plant directories
• Vegetables and Herbs: Introduction to growing and care, including informative directories
• Specialty Gardens: Basics on creating water gardens, butterfly gardens, and gardens for birds

Few pastimes are as rewarding as gardening. With a little bit of ground and a few seeds or plants, anyone can be a gardener, and almost any collection of plants can be a garden.

Gardening can be a refreshingly simple activity in an increasingly complex world. But you’ll have greater success and more fun if you start with an understanding of basic gardening practices. The techniques in this book are easy to follow and suitable for all gardeners—from beginners to advanced. Ecologically friendly methods are included so that you can create a garden that eventually helps to sustain itself.

The tools and materials you’ll need are included with each step-by-step project, and each is rated for difficulty. With well over three hundred photos and illustrations to guide you through each step of the process, this is your essential starter’s guide to beginning gardening!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607654421
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/15/2021
Series:	Gardening
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	103 MB
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About the Author

Consumers recognize Creative Homeowner as their leading and trusted source for the best information, inspiration, and instruction related to the house and home. Creative Homeowner is the preeminent publisher of books on all aspects of decorating and design; home repair and improvement; house plans; gardening and landscaping; and grilling. Creative Homeowner's books stand out from other publications with their complete and easy-to-follow instructions, up-to-date information, and extensive use of color photography. Among its best-selling titles are Ultimate Guide to Home Repair and Improvement, Updated Edition; Ultimate Guide: Plumbing, 4th Updated Edition; and Ultimate Guide: Wiring, 8th Updated Edition.

Table of Contents

Ch 1: Design Basics The fundamentals of garden design   Ch 2 Getting Started How to select the right plants   Ch 3 Garden Care Routine maintenance, plus disease and pest control   Ch 4 Annuals&Perennials How to choose them; create a cutting garden from them; prpoagate them   Ch 5 Roses The various types of roses; how to landscape with them; pest and disease control   Ch 6 Flowering Bulbs Bulbs in the landscape and in containers; bulb gallery   Ch 7 Herbs Growing and harvesting herbs; herb gallery   Ch 8 Ground Covers Growing ground covers; ground cover gallery   Ch 9 Trees&Shrubs Deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs; chossing the right type for your site; planting and pruning pointers   Ch 10 Specialty Gardens Gardens that attract birds and butterflies; water gardens   Ch 11 Vegetables Choosing a site and creating good soil conditions; laying out the beds; planting and care   Glossary Index