Organic Gardening: The Classic Guide to Growing Fruit, Flowers, and Vegetables the Natural Way

by Geoff Hamilton

This quintessential guide to creating an organic garden shows you how to grow beautiful plants while turning your yard into a chemical-free haven for children, pets, and wildlife. This beautifully illustrated guide includes practical advice, as well as step-by-step photographs and artworks to help you on your organic gardening journey. 

Whether you want to grow better-tasting fruit and vegetables free of chemicals, find natural methods of pest and weed control, or simply create a safer garden environment,  Organic Gardening  is your practical, easy-to-follow guide to gardening with, rather than against, nature. This comprehensive reference book contains everything you need for cultivating organic trees, flowers, and plants, as well as advice on ponds and aquatic vegetation.  

Hailed as a “Great Book” by  American Gardener , this manual was originally written by organic gardening pioneer Geoff Hamilton, then updated by his son, Nick Hamilton, to include additional modern gardening techniques.  Organic Gardening  an essential reference for experienced gardeners, as well as a user-friendly starter guide for novices. In short, it's everything you'll need to be an organic gardening expert.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Horticulture, Plants, Food, Reference

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2004

About the author

Geoffrey Stephen Hamilton (15 August 1936 – 4 August 1996) was an English gardener, broadcaster and author, best known as presenter of BBC television's Gardeners' World in the 1980s and 1990s.

Reviews

[Teresa]

A good book on organic gardening, one of the best I have seen.

I have grown organically for over 40 years, even owned and operated an organic commercial greenhouse for years.

Good to see that this author gets it right.

[Cliff · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most useful, practical and informative books I know on the practice of organic gardening. A reference we turn to every year come planting season and when diagnosing unusual plant ailments. Every step is well illustrated and explained, making organic gardening accessible to even a rank novice.

[Jeremy Lyon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'll have a better idea in a few months if the advice in this book is substantively effective, but it's presented in an engaging, lavishly illustrated, and easy-to-read style. I was most appreciative of the overall philosophy: one of pragmatism, that looks at the concrete benefits of organic gardening and how the back yard gardener can implement organic practices without inveigling or lecturing.

[The Flipped Page (Susan K) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great color photos. Sections on ornamental and vegetable garden planting. Vegetable gardening section has nice crop rotation directions, and planning. Also has great individual vegetable information, pests and diseases, fruits, herbs, tools, etc...

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous book on gardening for my mid sized home garden. Perfect level of detail.

[trisha · Rating 3 out of 5]

informative, and not overwhelming, but not comprehensive, either. a good start.

[Abbey · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great reference book to buy. I read this from front to back.

[Mark Nicholas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful info for growing my garden.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok book. Good photos: I read the whole book

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

great pictures. good information about treating insects.

[Steph Haze · Rating 3 out of 5]

Useful but intense! A bit scary for someone trying to garden for the first time.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This would be a great, comprehensive gardening book to start with... wasn't a whole lot of super-interesting new stuff after the number of gardening books I've been reading.

[Euan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the best one I have seen to date regarding organic harvesting.