While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Gardening books.
- The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil (2009)
- 101 Organic Gardening Hacks: Eco-friendly Solutions to Improve Any Garden (2017)
- Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use (2012)
- No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More (No-Waste Gardening) (2018)
- All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects – NEW Solutions – GROW Vegetables Anywhere (2018)
- Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics (2019)
- Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Sustain a Thriving Garden (2019)
- Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition (2009)
- All New Square Foot Gardening II: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space (2013)
- Western Garden Book: More than 8,000 Plants – The Right Plants for Your Climate – Tips from Western Garden Experts (Sunset Western Garden Book) (2007)
- The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes (2011)
- Raising Butterflies in the Garden (2019)
- Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (2010)
- Beginner Gardening Step by Step: A Visual Guide to Yard and Garden Basics (2019)
- Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians (Borealis) (1987)
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible, 2nd Edition: Discover Ed’s High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions: Wide Rows, Organic Methods, Raised Beds, Deep Soil (2009)
Smith’s legendary high-yield gardening method emphasizes wide rows, organic methods, raised beds, and deep soil. Succeed with fussy plants, try new and unusual varieties, and learn how to innovatively extend your growing season. With thorough profiles of hundreds of popular varieties, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible provides expert information and an inspiring roadmap for gardeners of all skill levels to enjoy abundant homegrown vegetables.
101 Organic Gardening Hacks: Eco-friendly Solutions to Improve Any Garden (2017)
If you ask garden author Shawna Coronado what a hack is, she might just wave her hand toward her own back yard.
Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use (2012)
Craft a soothing aloe lotion after an encounter with poison ivy, make a dandelion-burdock tincture to fix sluggish digestion, and brew up some lavender-lemon balm tea to ease a stressful day. In this introductory guide, Rosemary Gladstar shows you how easy it can be to make your own herbal remedies for life’s common ailments. Gladstar profiles 33 common healing plants and includes advice on growing, harvesting, preparing, and using herbs in healing tinctures, oils, and creams.
No-Waste Kitchen Gardening: Regrow Your Leftover Greens, Stalks, Seeds, and More (No-Waste Gardening) (2018)
Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen Gardening, gives you all the instruction and tricks you'll need to You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow. You'll also find some helpful general information about growing indoors and .
All New Square Foot Gardening, 3rd Edition, Fully Updated: MORE Projects – NEW Solutions – GROW Vegetables Anywhere (2018)
Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners fresh produce and . Now, based largely on the input and experience of these millions, the system has been even further refined and improved to fully meet today's changing resources, needs, and challenges. With , this new edition makes it easier than ever to achieve nearly-foolproof results in virtually any situation: .
Field Guide to Urban Gardening: How to Grow Plants, No Matter Where You Live: Raised Beds – Vertical Gardening – Indoor Edibles – Balconies and Rooftops – Hydroponics (2019)
If you think it’s impossible to grow your own food because you don’t have a large yard or you live in the city…think again. There is a plethora of urban gardening options to create beautiful, productive edible gardens no matter where you live. The key to succeeding as an urban gardener is to and then . Kevin helps you do just that. But he doesn’t stop there.
Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Sustain a Thriving Garden (2019)
Learn all about raised beds―and up your gardening game.Worried about space? Interested in bigger and better yields? Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners shows you all the amazing advantages of raised-bed gardens―and how easy creating them can be.A complete primer for fresh and experienced planters alike, this book contains everything you need to know to start a happy and healthy raised-bed garden.
Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition (2009)
The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.
All New Square Foot Gardening II: The Revolutionary Way to Grow More in Less Space (2013)
That explains why author and gardening innovator Mel Bartholomew has sold more than two million books teaching . Mel developed his techniques back in the early 1980s and has been teaching them around the world ever since. In the process, he has made , and has continually adapted his practices to keep pace with modern times.
Western Garden Book: More than 8,000 Plants – The Right Plants for Your Climate – Tips from Western Garden Experts (Sunset Western Garden Book) (2007)
Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking 8th edition of the “bible of Western gardening.” With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings–500 of them new–it’s THE essential book for gardeners in the Western states. What plants to grow, how to nurture them, and where they do the very best–it’s all here.
The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes (2011)
The Complete Kitchen Garden is an inspiring collection of garden designs and recipes for the home gardener and cook.
Raising Butterflies in the Garden (2019)
A guide to rearing butterflies and moths in a butterfly-friendly garden. This exciting title is for butterfly lovers and gardeners who not only want to create a butterfly-friendly garden, but also want to support butterflies and moths in order to maintain healthy populations. Author Brenda Dziedzic noticed that there were far fewer butterflies around today than she saw in her childhood. Starting in her own garden she set out to learn why and what she could do to fix this.
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (2010)
Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income. Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require.
Beginner Gardening Step by Step: A Visual Guide to Yard and Garden Basics (2019)
This book shows you the basics you need to get your yard or green space under control and keep it that way, and gives you lots of garden ideas you can do yourself–all with step-by-step photographs.
Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians (Borealis) (1987)
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her fields were near Like-a-fishhook, the earth-lodge village that the Hidatsa shared with the Mandan and Arikara.
Best Gardening Books Worth Your Attention
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some gardening books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Gardening Down-Under: A Guide to Healthier Soils and Plants
Author(s): Kevin Handreck
ID: 2386344, Publisher: CSIRO Publishing, Stylus Publishing, LLC [distributor, Year: June 2001, Size: 35 Mb, Format: pdf
Vertical Vegetable Gardening: Discover the Many Benefits of Growing Your Vegetables and Fruit Up Instead of Out
Author(s): Chris McLaughlin
ID: 2388660, Publisher: Alpha, Year: 31 Dec 2012, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub
Vegetable Gardening for Beginners: Learn to Grow Anything No Matter Where You Live
Author(s): Daniel Johnson, Samantha Johnson
ID: 3576634, Publisher: New Shoe Press, Year: 2023, Size: 22 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely best-sellers according to The New York Times, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.