A Gardeners Handbook: Volume 1

A Gardeners Handbook: Volume 1 is the ultimate guide to help you create your dream garden. This handbook is divided into 10 easy to read chapters packed full of Do-It-Yourself gardening and landscaping tips, information and cost-saving advice. You could even increase the value of your home!

Have you ever wanted to make your own vegetable garden or wild-flower garden? A Gardeners Handbook: Volume 1 provides all the inspiration, tips and ideas for you to get started. Perfect for the experienced and novice gardener alike.

At a glance...

Making a Garden
From planning to spot selection, this chapter has everything you need to know about making your own garden. Topics include sun direction, tools, money saving tips, and other practical advice.

Landscape gardening
Learn how to design your own landscape garden with ideas on tree selection and where to plant them, shrubs and hedges, garden paths, drainage, vines, flowers, and more.

Wild flower gardens
All you need to know to grow your own including plant selection, soil, conditions, planting, transplanting, and more.

Vegetables
Several chapters cover everything you need to know to grow your own delicious and nutritious vegetables. Within months you could be making your very own home cooked recipes! Or why not make money selling produce? Topics covered include making your own vegetable garden, vegetable selection, how to grow, crop rotation, sunlight, soil, watering, frost, cultivation, weeding, rotation, and more. Vegetables mentioned include beans, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, carrots, cucumber, lettuce, melons, pumpkins, and others.

Soil - Everything you need to know about the three types of soil.

Seeds - Planting, selection, impurity, tips, and other topics.

Pests - Tips to avoid and control common pests including grasshoppers, caterpillars, plant lice, mosquitoes, cutworms, slugs, beetles, and others.

Fighting plant enemies. Perfect should you want to fight plant enemies.