Gardening Complete: How to Best Grow Vegetables, Flowers, and Other Outdoor Plants [Hardcover]

InGardening Complete, eight of North America’s top gardening experts—and Cool Springs Press authors—present 19 subjects of critical interest to anyone who wants to learn or broaden gardening skills.

Whether your main interest is in designing landscapes and gardens, ornamental gardening to make your yard more attractive, or gardening to provide nutritious edibles for the family table, this book will become your definitive source of information. It is intended for serious beginning to intermediate gardeners, but even veteran gardeners will be intrigued by what these experts have to say aboutcore gardening skillsandcommon horticultural subjects.
 
Alarge-format bookboasting376 pagesand600 photos,Gardening Completedemonstrateshow to accomplish the routine activities of gardening and beyond, including:

• Planning and planting your garden
• Essential care for the garden during the growing season
• Dealing with pests and diseases
• Harvesting fruits and vegetables
• Attracting pollinators
• Container, vertical, and raised bed gardening techniques

While many gardening books focus on regional plant species or devote large sections to some form of plant catalog, this book is different.Gardening Completeserves not only as a self-containedmanual for gardening skills and information in all regions, but also as a sampler that mayhelp you determine where to focus your gardening hobbyin the future or even help you identify authors you’d like to explore further. Each of the eight authors has an impressively broad background in publishing and lecturing on gardening, and you may discover a new favorite writer in these pages. We haven’t just allowed these authorities to express their individual views—we’ve encouraged them to do so. As is true in a healthy garden, we’ve aimed at diversityl²