Grow something amazing, and save money doing it, by raising your own plants from scratch. Follow the advice of experts who explain how to grow more than 1,500 plants from seeds and cuttings, by division, grafting, layering, and more. Use the visual step-by-step guides to become an experienced plant parent with your own budding nursery of new plants.
n interactive, illustrated guide perfect for any burgeoning plant lover! Research shows plants can keep us (and our living spaces) happier and healthier. This illustrated guide breaks down everything from basic light and water needs to soil and temperature requirements for over fifty plants, and will help you find the right plant(s) for your personality, regardless of where you live or how much space you have. With an expansive glossary of plant terms, you'll be speaking like a horticulture pro in no time.
Worm sets out to make a sandwich, but first must compost food scraps into soil, to plant a seed in, to grow the vegetables to put into the sandwich. Includes backmatter on composting.
A child plants a mystery seed for a class project and is disappointed when nothing sprouts, but rescues the remaining seeds and decides to plant them.
This variation on the classic counting song "Over in the Meadow" tells the story of a group of children caring for a community garden.
Here are some recently published books related to gardening. If you'd like to get free seeds from Madison Public Library, check out our Seed Library, which is available at all eight of our neighborhood libraries. We've also got printable gardening book lists for kids and adults to use alongside their seeds!
The library owns about two billion gardening books. I’m pretty sure that is hardly an exaggeration. It can be a bit overwhelming.
So let me recommend one as a librarian and a gardener: Emily Murphy’s Grow What You Love: 12 Food Plant Families to Change Your Life. It isn’t the only gardening book you’ll ever need, but it’s a darn good start.
