How To Garden

Whether you are an experienced gardener or a complete beginner, this book contains everything you need to know about designing and maintaining your garden. It covers all the key skills, from planning to planting, and includes ideas for more adventurous projects such as building a pond.

Basic essentials: The book begins with simple design ideas and advice about planning your garden, with straightforward instructions on laying paths and patios, putting down decking and erecting fences, building raised beds and creating beds and borders. The sections that follow are packed with useful advice, including how to improve your soil and how to achieve a perfect, weed-free lawn.

Adventurous ideas: The book then builds on this basic knowledge to suggest more spectacular ideas for gardens. It explains how to create ponds and incorporate simple water features, and gives advice on planting a bog garden and a rock garden.

Key skills: The final sections cover the skills you will need to keep your garden in tip-top shape, from weeding and feeding to mulching and pest control, and includes an at-a-glance checklist of tasks to do throughout the year.

Packed with dozens of illustrated step-by-step techniques, this classic compendium will help you plan, plant - and enjoy - your perfect garden.

About the Author

Jonathan Edwards is an experienced garden writer and editor. He began his career as a garden journalist, working as a feature editor for Amateur Gardening magazine before becoming deputy editor of Gardening Which? magazine. He now works on gardening books full time and has a particular interest in making gardening accessible for all.