I am gardening, but it’s very confusing and I want to become familiar with the ins and outs of gardening. Things like soil prep, watering and plant nutrition, companion planting, creating a garden ecosystem… etc.
I feel like there is so much to know and so much information on the internet. I’m in usda hardiness zone 9b, if that helps at all.
Thanks!
by D3s0lat0r
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I really liked Vegetable Gardening for Beginners by Jill McSheehy. It isn’t overwhelming and has helpful content to not bombard you with all of the things at once. It is the only vegetable gardening book I have and will probably buy. It was a great starting point and from there, I use online resources.
I do have other books for native plant gardening and cut flowers, though. But started with Jill’s before branching out.
There are only a couple that I have kept over the years and most others end up rehomed to the used book store.
If you can find it at a used book store I’d suggest **The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible** by **Tony Lopez** around $15 new
**Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook** this is a spiral bound, weekly to do list for the entire year. you can get this for about $5 used on Amazon
If you live on the West Coast of the US**, The Sunset Western Garden Book** is phenomenal. Abebooks has it for around $5.00-8.00 or it can go up to $50 new. I think it was rebranded as the New Western Garden Book but even an older edition is fine. The hardback does make a nice coffee table book.