RHS How To Garden When You're New To Gardening: The Basics For Absolute Beginners

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This will depend somewhat on your USDA hardiness zone. Plants that grow outdoors in Florida might need to be grown as houseplants in Maine. Generally speaking, low-maintenance, easy-care plants will include annual flowers such as marigolds and perennials like daisies and asters. Plants native to your area are often easy to cultivate. Although all plants need some attention, root vegetables like radishes, carrots, and potatoes and annual herbs like basil, parsley, and dill are relatively low maintenance. Photogenic TV gardeners like Monty Don tend to dominate the displays of gardening books in bookstores and lists of the best gardening books for beginners, but don’t forget the classics – the writers who more or less invented the genre.

Another good month-by-month guide is Allotment Month by Month: How to Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg. You’ll find information on just about every fruit and veg under the sun, so it’s excellent for helping you eat your 5-a-day. Gardening under cover New Vegetable Garden Techniques: Essential skills and projects for tastier, healthier crops by Joyce Russell Joe Swift, the expert gardener, has written a no-nonsense, practical guide on how to create your own small garden. From courtyards to rooftops, Swift promises to help transform even the most awkward and unexciting places. In this book, Joe covers a vast range of exciting, impactful and innovative ways to stamp your personality on your outdoor space. We approve of gardening books that tell you what to do each month – they’re great for beginners and have useful reminders for experienced gardeners too.

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Grow what you and your family like to consume. If no one likes green beans, don’t bother planting them. However, if your kids love carrots, put more effort into growing a big crop of carrots.

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Why do I want an allotment?

Plants to Feed to Bees" is a simple, photo-based book with plant profiles and growing information for each plant. This book is a great way to get plants that you know will help the bee population while supporting a nonprofit at the same time.

We’ve scoured the internet and found the top-rated (and best) gardening books for beginners on the market. From colourful flowers to vegetables – and beyond, especially if you're completely clueless about your garden - and have no idea where to start. Allotment month by month notebook – this planner, allotment journal and plants journal is great – lots of space for personal notes! It is a great complement to any beginners guide to allotments Buy this gorgeous gardening journal here.

Best gardening books for beginners at a glance:

RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch: A Foolproof Guide to Every Stage of Growing Fruit and Veg: Lucy Chamberlain Unlike many gardening books, which are used more as reference materials than as enjoyable reads, this one is both useful and beautiful enough to be read from cover to cover. You can learn some helpful tips for planting shrubs, Mediterranean perennial herbs, bulbs, and more.