Garden Resources

Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden

By Rhonda Massingham Hart From nibbling on fruit bushes to destroying flower beds, unwanted deer pose a frustrating and challenging obstacle to even the most patient gardeners. Rhonda Massingham Hart provides insights into deer behavior and offers a...

100 Plants to Feed the Birds

100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat By Laura Erickson The growing group of bird enthusiasts who enjoy feeding and watching their feathered friends  will learn how they can expand their activity...

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs that Deer Don't Eat By Ruth Rogers Clausen, Alan L. Detrick   Offering a wonderful array of potential plant combinations with other deer-resistant...

A Way To Garden

A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season by Margaret Roach   In this lushly-photographed book, iconic garden voice Margaret Roach shows gardeners how to incorporate lessons from her glorious garden into their own home...

Attracting Native Pollinators

By The Xerces Society, Marla Spivak   A complete action plan to protect bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies, and some beetles by providing flowering habitat and nesting sites.   With the recent decline of the European...

Audubon Birds in the Garden Wall Calendar 2024

Audubon Birds in the Garden Wall Calendar 2024: Use Native Plants to Attract Birds and Pollinators to Your BackyardBy National Audubon Society “Be merry, all birds, to-day, be merry on earth as you never were merry before.”...

Botany for Gardeners

Botany for GardenersBy Brian Capon The essential overview of plant botany, perfect for both beginning and advanced gardeners. “An outstanding and enjoyable introduction to botany, whether the reader is a gardener, or just a garden...

Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening

By Louise Riotte   For over 30 years, this classic companion-gardening guide has outlined the keys to creating a harmoniously varied and bountiful garden.   Plant parsley and asparagus together and you’ll have more of each, but keep...

Epic Tomatoes

Epic Tomatoes by Craig LeHoullier   From Cherokee Purple to Green Zebra, midgets to giants, solids to stripes, explore the how-to of growing, harvesting, and enjoying flavorful tomatoes, including author Craig LeHoullier’s picks for the top...

Garden Allies

Garden Allies: The Insects, Birds, and Other Animals That Keep Your Garden Beautiful and ThrivingBy Frederique Lavoipierre The birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that inhabit our yards and gardens are overwhelmingly on our side—they...

Gardening with Biochar

Gardening with Biochar: Supercharge Your Soil with Bioactivated Charcoal: Grow Healthier Plants, Create Nutrient-Rich Soil, and Increase Your HarvestBy Jeff Cox Bioactivated charcoal — called biochar — is the new darling of...

Groundbreaking Food Gardens

Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your GardenBy Niki Jabbour Follow your zany muse and get creative with your vegetable garden. Niki Jabbour brings you 73 novel and inspiring food garden designs that include a...

Grow More Food : A Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Getting the Biggest Harvest Possible from a Space of Any Size

By Colin McCrate, Brad HalmColin McCrate is an experienced CSA farmer and, together with co-author Brad Halm, founder of The Seattle Urban Farm Company, a business that designs, builds, and maintains edible gardens. The work of McCrate and Halm has won...

Grow Your Own Herbs: The 40 Best Culinary Varieties for Home Gardens

by Susan Belsinger, Arthur O. Tucker   Fresh herbs are a kitchen staple, and this hardworking guide details how to grow and use the 40 most important culinary varieties.  Nothing tastes better than herbs harvested fresh from...

Grow Your Soil!

By Diane Miessler, Elaine R. Ingham  The key to success for every gardening venture is rich soil. Achieving that basic building block is easy with this accessible soil improvement guide, which offers a broad understanding of the science of...