Gardening Made Simple is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to creating beautiful gardens, including all the basics of planting, growing, and caring for trees, shrubs, flowers, fruits, vegetables, lawns and other greenery. With plenty of clear and explanatory full-color photographs, it gives beginners the inspiration and simple guidance they need to achieve their green-thumb dreams.
A helpful introductory section covers basic tools and techniques and shows you how to choose the right garden plans and plants for your Zone, prepare your soil, manage pests, and prune, mulch, fertilize, and water with ease.
No matter your gardening experience and skill level, Gardening Made Simple provides the inspiration, insight, and advice you need to grow the garden of your dreams.
Key Features
- Includes more than 65 step-by-step gardening projects.
- Features 145 easy-to-grow plants, including sections on container gardening, growing your own vegetables, fruits, and herbs, flower gardening, landscaping with trees, shrubs, vines, and groundcovers, and foolproof houseplants.
- Features more than 1,200 color photographs throughout, including step-by-step photos and shots of finished projects, as well as colorful illustrations and easy plant-by-number diagrams.
- Includes handy Ask the Garden Doctor question-and-answer content, and Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden tips throughout.
Contents
- Chapter 1. Getting Started
- Chapter 2. Understanding Plants
- Chapter 3. Choosing and Using Tools
- Chapter 4. Preparing and Improving Soil
- Chapter 5. Growing Turfgrass
- Chapter 6. Growing Flowers and Foliage
- Chapter 7. Growing Trees, Shrubs, and Vines
- Chapter 8. Growing Vines and Climbers
- Chapter 9. Growing Edibles
- Chapter 10. Making More Plants
- Chapter 11. Mulching and Fertilizing
- Chapter 12. Watering and Irrigating
- Chapter 13. Pruning
- Chapter 14. Gardening in Containers
- Chapter 15. Managing Weeds, Pests, and Diseases
- Resources
- Index
Product Details
- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (November 15, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470638540
- ISBN-13: 978-0470638545
List Price: $24.99