First-rate gardening pros share their expertise on designing a garden of any size, as well as fundamentals about soil, irrigation, pest control, crop rotation, and more.

Looks at container gardens, focusing on choosing the right containers, designing container plantings, specialty container plantings, and placing pots in the landscape.

"This book is a true beginner's guide to growing vegetables easily and productively and contains great tips and techniques for even practiced gardeners. These surprisingly easy basics will have your garden filled to the brim with tomatoes, squash, peppers and so many more favourites. Split into 7 chapters, the book shows readers how to plan a vegetable garden and get the most out of their plants. Chapters or Tomatoes, Peppers & Other Vines, Root Vegetables, Squash, Greens and Herbs provide all of the information a reader needs to get growing. A robust Vegetable Index and the appendix offer readers excellent charts and growing information"--Book Depository.

This book covers everything a gardener needs to know about choosing and nurturing the most delicious varieties, including selection, pruning, training, irrigation, and pest and disease prevention. It also includes inspiring ideas for tucking trees into surprisingly small spaces, as well as creative recipes for your incredible harvest. You will want to plant a mini-orchard in every intimate corner.--COVER.

This is a new book in the phenomenally popular Yates series of books. Practical and accessible and highly illustrated, and will be suitable for gardeners of all skill levels.

With beautiful photography and region-specific growing tips, The Edible Asian Garden features delicious recipes and gardening techniques from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia. With plant information and practical how-to, author Rosalind Creasy takes us on a tour of three of her own successful Asian gardens—one suitable for cool weather, another for warmer weather, and a stir-fry garden—to show the variety of vegetables that can be grown in a range of climates and for a variety of purposes. In "The Asian Garden Encyclopedia," Creasy gives information for 108 distinct varieties of Asian vegetables. Looking for a novel ingredient to add to Friday night stir-fry supper? Why not grow it—the Resources section offers many seed sources for Asian vegetables that are easier to plant than to find at your local market. Finally, in the Recipes section, Creasy presents common Asian ingredients and cooking methods. Featured Asian recipes include: Pickled Ginger Lemon Grass Tea Carrot and Garlic Stir-fry Pea Shoots with Crab Sauce Thai Chicken Soup with Pigeon Peas Vietnamese Salad Rolls Winter Squash, Japanese Style Thai Red Vegetable Curry Vegetable Tempura And many more!

This is an information-packed reference book for anyone wishing to grow their own edible garden, whether they have space only for a few pots on a balcony or a dedicated vegetable patch. Elegantly designed and lavishly illustrated throughout with step-by-step, ID and landscape photographs, it also features a detailed plant directory. Herb and Vegetable Gardening provides essential information about cultivating, propagating, maintaining, harvesting and storing, and designing with, a huge range of herbs and vegetables. It also presents recipes and techniques for preparing garden produce, and looks at medicinal, cosmetic and household uses for herbs.