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

by Better Homes and Gardens (Editor)

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. 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.

Genres: Gardening

359 pages, Paperback

First published December 27, 2011

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Peggy R.]

I will use this always--it is a terrific reference book. This is a great book for the beginning gardener! A friend of mine gave it to me because I am learning how to landscape and garden. This is a completely new area for me as I consider myself an "accomplished indoors-woman"! I can bake it, cook it or knit it but garden?? Me??! I am a city girl at heart but there is hope. I have already learned a lot and refer to this book almost daily to help me get the outside of my house in shape. I have planted using how-tos and suggestions from the book and so far so good. I have also learned how to "amend" the soil and I can now prune with a vengeance!

[Monique]

This book had some really good pointers and ideas if you arean avid gardener...I've been gardening for 9 years and love every second ofit. It's a lot of work, but, the blooms and herbs and vegetables and fruits you get in return make all of the work well worth it...A good read:-)

[Jan]

A great gardening book, great illustrations, great step by step guide. I will be going back to this one again and again.

[Kelly Walton]

Very helpful read for a first time gardener! Lots of information but it’s broken down easily. I liked that there were so many pictures. I was intimidated to grow plants from seeds but this book made it seem so simple and it really is. Will definitely keep this as a resource for future gardening endeavors.

[Sophia Liao]

very beginner friendly