MONTH-BY-MONTH GARDENING GUIDE

DAILY ADVICE FOR GROWING FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, HERBS AND HOUSEPLANTS

AUTHOR FRANZ BOHMIG PUBLISHER TIMBER PRESS PRICE £21.99 / $27.95 RELEASE OUT NOW

This in-depth gardening book provides tips and season-specific guidance that will give your plants the best chance of thriving. Whether you’re looking for general advice, such as what materials to use to air your compost and how to dig trenches to benefit newly planted trees, or you want to help your plants blossom in a specific month of the year, this book has 1,388 tips to make you a better gardener.

This long list is categorised into months and types of plants to help you find the information you seek, then a detailed series of tables detail how to improve growth in specific soil types and the nutrient, rotation and ph requirements for a large selection of commonly grown vegetables. The extensive second half of the book includes equally vital information about most of the ornamental plants in your garden, labelled with both their botanical species name and common English name.

Month-by-month Gardening Guide provides exactly what it claims in the title and can help a gardening novice give their garden more life or fine-tune the skills of a pro.