Garden Resources

Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales

Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales: Easy Planting, Less Weeding, Early Harvests. A Storey BASICS® TitleBy Craig LeHoullier Straw bale gardening is an inexpensive, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space. All you need is a...

Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round

Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-RoundBy Barbara Pleasant   Whether selecting the right variety of pumpkin for pie filling or the...

Homegrown Whole Grains

Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and MoreBy Sara Pitzer This invaluable guide shows you exactly how to grow, harvest, process, store, and cook nine of the most common whole grains: wheat, corn, barley,...

Let It Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition)

By Stu Campbell Stu Campbell provides an in-depth explanation of how composting works and offers clear instructions for a variety of both traditional and modern methods for successfully creating your own compost.   Transform leaves, grass, and...

Mini Meadows

By Mike Lizotte   Create low-cost, low-maintenance flower-filled plots around the yard that provide habitat for pollinators, reduce mowing, and address problem areas with special plantings for shady, damp, erosion-prone, or deer-susceptible...

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture

No-Till Intensive Vegetable Culture: Pesticide-Free Methods for Restoring Soil and Growing Nutrient-Rich, High-Yielding CropsBy Bryan O'Hara From a veteran organic grower: a unique agricultural methodology that delivers higher yields, higher...

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat

Plant Grow Harvest Repeat: Grow a Bounty of Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers by Mastering the Art of Succession Planting by Meg McAndrews Cowden   In Plant Grow Harvest Repeat, home gardeners will learn how the principle of...

Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Garden

By Jessica Walliser, Jeff Gillman   Reflecting the latest research on how plants influence and communicate with each other, Jessica Walliser offers a research-based guide to companion planting—a gardening method that uses strategic...

Shallow-Pit Garden Composting: The Easy, No-Smell, No-Turning Way to Create Organic Compost For Your Garden

By Caleb Warnock Learn how to make your own shallow pit garden compost . . . without the smell! Many gardeners give up making backyard compost in frustration—the compost pile smells, it requires too much work to turn the heap, and the...

Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots

By Andrea Bellamy   You can grow vegetables anywhere, including balconies, porches, walls, or wherever you find room. In Small-Space Vegetable Gardens Andrea Bellamy explains how to grow a bounty of delicious edibles in a minimal...

Starter Vegetable Gardens, 2nd Edition

Starter Vegetable Gardens, 2nd Edition: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic GardensBy Barbara Pleasant Best-selling gardening author Barbara Pleasant makes organic vegetable gardening easy, fun, and rewarding with detailed planting and care designs for...

Teaming with Fungi

Teaming with Fungi: The Organic Grower's Guide to MycorrhizaeBy Jeff Lowenfels Teaming with Fungi is the first book to accessibly explain the essential symbiotic relationship between soil-dwelling mycorrhizal fungi and plants. “Accomplishes what...

Teaming with Microbes

Teaming with MicrobesBy Wayne Lewis There is an alternative to the vicious circle of chemical fertilizers: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web—the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions...

Teaming with Nutrients

Teaming with NutrientsBy Jeff Lowenfels Teaming with Nutrients will make you a better informed, more successful, more environmentally responsible gardener and will give you a new appreciation for the plants you grow.​“Gets deep into the...

The Beginner’s Guide to Growing Great Vegetables by Lorene Edwards Forkner

Millions of people started vegetable gardening this year for the first time—this beginner-friendly guide offers them all the information they need to do so successfully.“For new and novice gardeners who want a straightforward, unfussy guide...