A mother and child plant a rainbow of flowers in the family garden.

"BBC Gardeners' World presenter Frances Tophill provides forty-one step-by-step projects for creative and sustainable container gardens. She covers a range of different planting schemes and types of container, from urns and troughs to chimney stacks and hanging baskets. Frances offers expert advice on what to grow and how to grow it, from bonsai, bulbs, and bamboo to tumbling and creeping plants and flowers"--Page 4 of cover.

Promoting a holistic ecological view, Tammi Hartung encourages you to invite wildlife into your garden. You'll be amazed at how a variety of natural pollinators, pest predators, and soil enrichers can promote vibrant and healthy vegetables. Discover how a slug problem disappears once you've introduced a pond housing bullfrogs, how wasps can take care of tomato hornworms, and why skunks aren't so bad after all. Learn how to garden with animals, rather...

"Participating in the grow-your-own movement is important to both reduce your food miles and control what makes it onto your family's table. If you've hesitated to take part because installing and caring for a traditional vegetable garden doesn't seem to suit your life or your sense of style, Kitchen Garden Revival is here to show you there's a better, more beautiful way to grow food. Instead of row after row of cabbage and pepper plants plunked into...

"Are you ready to become a seed-starting and -saving champion? Author and gardening expert Julie Thompson-Adolf will walk you through every step of the journey, making the entire process a joy. In this book you'll find: Extensive plant entries that cover all the most popular vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers; Tips and hints, such as how to encourage stubborn seeds to germinate; Lists to help you find the best plants to add to your garden, whether...

Grow your own delicious food in any space -- no matter how small. Learn how to plan and build your garden -- on balconies, in raised beds, up walls, across parking strips, and more -- as well as how to sow, grow, and harvest an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables all season long.

"Chapter 1 will focus on succession in the landscape, including lessons from prairies and woodlands. Chapter 2 moves on to how succession can work in the garden. Chapter 3 is about how to "layer" succession onto the home landscape, and the final chapter talks about the foundations of successful succession planting. This approach to gardening has not been explored in such depth and detail in other books; the link between natural processes and the garden...

"How to plan your garden carefully, maximize production in every bed, get the most out of every plant, scale up systems to maximize efficiency, and expand the harvest season with succession planting, intercropping, and season extension"--