"Niki Jabbour, author of the best-selling The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, has collected 73 plans for novel and inspiring food gardens from her favorite superstar gardeners, including Amy Stewart, Amanda Thomsen, Barbara Pleasant, Dave Dewitt, and Jessi Bloom. You'll find a garden that provides salad greens 52 weeks a year, another that supplies your favorite cocktail ingredients, one that you plant on a balcony, one that encourages pollinators,...

"Just a couple of years ago almost no one in the gardening world had heard about Straw Bale Gardening. Today, it is the hottest new method for veggie growing, with tens of thousands of dedicated followers across the globe. ... Straw Bale Gardens: Get high yields; Never need weeding; Do not require soil; Extend the growing season by weeks; Can be conventional or 100 percent organic: Your choice; Can go anywhere--even balconies and driveways"--

A medical herbalist and certified organic grower, through gentle, smart methods, shows gardeners how to create a peaceful co-existence between their vegetable garden and the wildlife who consider it part of their habitat.

The most comprehensive book on greenhouse gardening available today. Today, greenhouses and sunrooms are real living spaces where gardeners spend as much time with a book and a cup of coffee as they do with a watering can and a pair of pruning shears. In this fully revised edition of a best-selling classic, veteran gardener Shane Smith embraces this new "lifestyle" approach to greenhouse gardening. Through lively writing that balances wit with commonsense...

Edibles continue to be popular choices for gardeners, and beginning gardeners are no exception. Author William Moss takes a beginning gardener through all the steps needed to grow vegetables and fruits in any setting, regardless of the available (or desired) size. This book covers container gardening, vertical gardening, raised-bed gardening, and traditional methods to help gardeners everywhere bring a taste of homegrown freshness to their gardening...

Recommends labor-saving techniques for planting a garden, tending the soil, eliminating weeds, controlling garden pests, and harvesting.

Advice on growing vegetables and herbs, flowering and nonflowering hosueplants, and flowers that can be harvested in quantity.

After planting the garden he has dreamed of for years, Mr. McGreely tries to find a way to keep some persistent bunnies from eating all his vegetables.

"Make your garden flourish with rich soil you produce yourself! Written in clear and simple terms, understand everything you need to know about compost, how it works, and how you can make it and use it! Whether you have a large backyard, a small garden space, or only a balcony, composting can be customized to fit you and your lifestyle. With detailed chapters on the benefits of composting, getting started, making compost, various methods and techniques,,...

"'A garden should be easy and fun to care for -- don't complicate things unnecessarily.' This is the slogan of author Inger Palmstierna. In Greenhouse Vegetable Gardening, she helps readers find the joy of cultivating in their very own greenhouses. Palmstierna is a gardening authority with vast knowledge on everything that grows. With infectious enthusiasm, this garden writer and horticulturist explains how to cultivate a successful garden or orchard....