Better Homes and Gardens Gardening Made Simple: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Gardening - Softcover

Better Homes And Gardens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470638540 ISBN 13: 9780470638545

Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens, 2011

Synopsis

The ideal guide to getting started for every beginning gardener

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.

• 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

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.

About this title

About the Author

The iconic BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS brand is one of America's most trusted sources for information on cooking, gardening, home improvement, home design, decorating, and crafting. Today, the brand encompasses books, magazines, and digital media.

From the Back Cover

This complete step-by-step guide makes successful gardening easy!

Whether you're a beginner looking for a basic guide to plants, garden tools, and techniques or a seasoned gardener searching for new project ideas, you'll find everything you need in this book. It's chock-full of easy-to-follow instructions, with more than 1,200 colorful photographs to show you how to achieve success with your landscape and edible gardens without a lot of fuss. Gardening has never been this simple, or this fun!

IN THIS BOOK...

• 145 plant profiles of the easiest and most popular flowers, foliage plants, trees, shrubs, vines, roses, groundcovers, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and houseplants to grow

• 65 step-by-step garden projects

• 1,200 color photographs illustrating each how-to step as well as finished projects

• Better Homes and Gardens Test Garden tips throughout provide expert solutions to make gardening easier

• Answers to common garden questions from the Better Homes and Gardens Garden Doctor help solve problems

• Introductory section on essential tools and techniques to ensure success with gardening

Edition details

• Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470638540
• ISBN 13: 9780470638545
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360