What is the best book on gardening?

All New Square Foot Gardening

Do you know what the best feature is in All New Square Foot Gardening? Sure, there are ten new features in this all-new, updated book. Sure, it's even simpler than it was before. Of course, you don't have to worry about fertilizer or poor soil ev... read more...

I found this particularly useful when I moved to a big city and had limited space to work with. The book details how to build, grow, and maintain above ground gardens. You can do a lot of cool stuff with limited space!
Very easy, anyone can do it. Definitely worth a look.

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You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening

This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers in... read more...

Great for the young city dweller or the suburbanite. So many fun tips and tricks to help your garden grow.

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Gardening All-in-One For Dummies

"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."--Sir Francis BaconNational surveys show that gardening has become the most popular, least exclusive hobby nationwide. From the balconies of Manhattan to the p... read more...

this is my first time using a '____ for dummies' book and I am quite pleased with it! They obviously hire knowledgable people to write it, and it's put together in such a way that is easy to follow and understand. A great way to learn gardening basics.

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Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidd...

A gardening system that works-- so you don't have to!Turn in your tiller for a stack of old newspapers! Replace your shovel with a layer of grass clippings! Let Pat Lanza show you how you can create lush, successful, easy-care gardens in practical... read more...

I loved this book. It is definitely a new way of gardening but it's been effective I'll never do it any other way. As a test I did two different gardens with the same seedlings. So one garden was traditional with regular moist soil as I would normally use and the other garden went right off of what the author of Lasagna Gardening told me to do. By far less weeds and much healthier crop in the Lasagna garden. I was blown away. It's really a great book.

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The Vegetable Gardener's Bible (10th Anniversary Edition)

The invaluable resource for home food gardeners! Ed Smith's W-O-R-D system has helped countless gardeners grow an abundance of vegetables and herbs. And those tomatoes and zucchini and basil and cucumbers have nourished countless families, neighbo... read more...

if you are at all interested in growing some veggies i can't think of a better book than this one! this guy is a genius and he really knows what he's talking about when it comes to gardening, and especially vegetable gardening.
It's especially useful because it covers every aspect of the gardening process, from building the garden to planting it to growing it to keeping bugs/animals away. Everything you need to know to have fresh tomatoes on your salad, right here!