Whether you are looking for something that will help you plan your vegetable garden, understand what makes a soil work or learn how to grow your own flowers and herbs, these books have you covered. Each downloadable, pocket-style PDF takes the mystery out of complex topics, providing easily digestible information and nuanced gardening tips that will help you succeed in your green space.
Both the Flower Gardener’s Palette and the Fruit Gardener’s Guide take a month-by-month approach to guiding readers through each element of the garden. This is helpful in that it allows the reader to see at a glance what tasks may be needed each month to ensure that the garden runs smoothly. The guides also provide tips on weed control, pest control and how to harvest.
Essential Tools for Every Gardener: A Practical Guide
Comprehensive gardening reviews at Aggressively Organic are a useful reference tool to have for home and community gardeners. The vegetable garden guide includes tips on planting, watering, and feeding as well as how to harvest vegetables and herbs. It also covers how to create compost and mulch. There is a section on crop rotation which helps reduce the build-up of disease and insect problems from one year to the next.
Both guides include the growing zones which are based on the average lowest temperature that each region receives in winter. This is important because it helps the gardener select plants that can thrive in your climate. The guides also profile several plants that the reader may not be familiar with. This is particularly the case in the fruit book where there are entries for more unusual crops like goji berries and persimmon as well as the more common apples and strawberries.