Beginner gardening step by step A visual guide to yard and garden basics

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Subjects
Genres
Handbooks and manuals
Published
New York, New York, DK Publishing 2019.
Language
English
Corporate Authors
Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain), DK Publishing, Inc
Corporate Authors
Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) (-), DK Publishing, Inc
Edition
First American edition
Item Description
"This book is adapted from the following titles in the previously published RHS Simple step series: Planting a small garden / Phil Clayton ; Plants for shade / Andrew Mikolajski ; Family garden / Lia Leendertz ; Easy-care garden / Jenny Hendy ; Containers for patios / Richard Rosenfeld ; Climbing plants / Charles Chesshire ; Lawns and ground / Simon Akeroyd ; Bamboos and grasses / Jon Ardle ; Gardening step by step / Phil Clayton, Jenny Hendy, Colin Crosbie, Jo Whittingham ; Easy pruning / Colin Crosbie ; Vegetables and fruits in pots / Jo Whittingham ; Vegetables in a small garden / Jo Whittingham ; Herbs / William Denne." -- page [256].
Includes index.
Physical Description
255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781465477002
  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Which way does your garden face?
  • Know your soil
  • Improving your soil
  • Choosing the right potting soil
  • Choosing healthy plants
  • Flowers & Foliage
  • Sowing seeds outdoors
  • Sowing seeds indoors
  • Growing plants that last
  • Growing sunflowers
  • Preparing pots for planting
  • Plant up a colorful container
  • Make a spring hanging basket
  • Planting a shady window box
  • Planting bulbs in a pot
  • Making a border
  • Making raised beds and edges
  • Choosing flowers and foliage for spring containers
  • Choosing flowers and foliage for summer containers
  • Lawns
  • Laying sod
  • Sowing grass seed
  • How to make a lawn edging
  • Growing bulbs m grass
  • Caring for your lawn
  • Climbers
  • Planting a climber
  • Potting up climbers
  • Planting an obelisk
  • Create a tower of climbers
  • Make an ivy topiary ball
  • Build a rose arch
  • Pruning a rose arch
  • Pruning a rose on a wall
  • Pruning wisteria
  • Cutting back ivy
  • Raise new plants by layering
  • Choosing climbers for spring interest
  • Choosing climbers for summer interest
  • Shrubs
  • Planting a shrub
  • Planting a shrub in a pot
  • Planting a bare-root rose
  • Pruning an early summer-flowering shrub
  • Lightly pruning shrubs
  • Pruning a shrub rose
  • Pruning hydrangea
  • Pruning lavender
  • Pruning for winter stems
  • Planting a hedge
  • Trimming a hedge
  • Making a topiary cone
  • Repotting a shrub
  • Choosing shrubs for year-round interest
  • Choosing shrubs for autumn interest
  • Grasses
  • Planting grasses in the ground
  • Caring for grasses
  • Cutting back grasses
  • Dividing grasses
  • Choosing grasses
  • Small Trees
  • Planting a tree
  • Removing a branch
  • Moving a tree or shrub
  • Choosing trees for small gardens
  • Vegetables
  • Growing seeds in trays
  • Sowing seeds in small pots
  • Growing vegetables from plug plants
  • Raising lettuces on a windowsill
  • Growing tomatoes
  • Growing climbing beans
  • Growing root crops
  • Growing early potatoes
  • Growing potatoes in a trash can
  • Herbs
  • Growing herbs from seed
  • Planting an herb garden
  • Planting an herb hanging basket
  • Making a lavender hedge
  • Growing herbs from cuttings
  • Dividing herbs
  • Fruit
  • Planting a basket of strawberries
  • Planting an apple tree in a pot
  • Pruning an apple tree
  • Soft fruit in small spaces
  • Tree fruit in small spaces
  • Practicalities
  • Watering plants
  • Making your own compost
  • How and when to prune
  • Caring for your tools
  • Troubleshooting weeds
  • Dealing with pests
  • Preventing diseases
  • Know your garden friends
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

Gardening is one of those hobbies that people are perennially keen to pick up, but it can be challenging to discern the vital things one needs to know as a beginner from the wealth of detailed information available. The wide range of full, in-depth books on the many specific aspects of gardening can make it challenging to know where to start, which makes this all-in-one introduction so useful. Chapters on getting started and on practicalities bookend nine sections on particular types of plants, each of which consists of two-to-four-page guides to the most common tasks required for that plant. Each of these guides includes a list of required tools and supplies, step-by-step instructions accompanied by large color photographs, and references with page numbers to related tasks. Jargon-buster tips define key terms and phrases and explain in a few words why they are important. For those wishing to get started growing flowers and foliage, lawns, climbers, shrubs, grasses, small trees, vegetables, herbs, or fruit, this is an excellent and easy-to-use resource.--Anne Heidemann Copyright 2019 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.