Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture. In gardens, ornamental plants are often grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants, such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits, and herbs, are grown for consumption, for use as dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use.

Gardening ranges in scale from fruit orchards, to long boulevard plantings with one or more different types of shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants, to residential back gardens including lawns and foundation plantings, and to container gardens grown inside or outsi
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The Restoration Garden
The Last Garden in England
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Where You're Planted
How to Talk to Your Succulent
The Twilight Garden
June in the Garden
The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden
How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves
Nice Work, Nora November: A Novel about Second Chances
The Memory of Lavender and Sage
Steeped in Malice (Tea by the Sea Mysteries #4)
The Potting Shed Murder (Hill House Vintage Murder Mystery, #1)
The Gardener's Plot
All New Square Foot Gardening
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest & Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms
Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
The Garden Primer
Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinStories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright Seeing the Past by James T.  PowersSaving the Farm by James T.  Powers
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
421 books — 322 voters
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Being "Green"
389 books — 238 voters

Dungeon Born by Dakota KroutAncient Ruins by Benjamin MedranoThe Slime Dungeon by Jeffrey "Falcon" LogueWe Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. TaylorDungeon Spawned by D.R. Rosier
Protagonist is a Dungeon
68 books — 167 voters

All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel BartholomewFour-Season Harvest by Eliot ColemanWestern Garden Book by Kathleen Norris BrenzelBringing Nature Home by Douglas W. TallamyLasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza
Gardening Books
369 books — 156 voters
A Muddied Murder by Wendy TysonFor Whom the Bluebell Tolls by Beverly  AllenThyme of Death by Susan Wittig AlbertFlowerbed of State by Dorothy St. JamesThe Potted Gardener by M.C. Beaton
Gardening Mysteries
50 books — 20 voters


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Charles Dowding
No dig protects the hidden biological networks that strong harvests depend on.
Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

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