It’s never too early to start thinking about your plans for next year’s garden or, in the short term, Christmas presents for the soil worker in your life.

The Times of London has put together a great list of the best gardening books of the year.

I am not what you would call a green thumb, in fact if plants could talk I’m sure they would shout black death which is why I cut the grass and make the compost and my partner guards the plants from my cursed spade.

Times Bestselling Gardening Books

1. Grow Your Own Veg by Carol Klein
2. The Allotment Book by AM Clevely
3. RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers by Christopher Brickell
4. Alan Titchmarsh’s The Gardener’s Year by Alan Titchmarsh
5. Small Garden: Hundreds of Brilliant Ideas for Small Spaces by John Brookes