Abhishek Agarwal asked:


You needn’t catch hold of your aunt who wins the neighborhood best garden ribbon or read up loads of thick books on gardening to come up with the best blooms; you can do all this on your own without bribing or even threatening to poison beautiful flowers in your neighbor’s garden if they don’t let you in on their secret for floral blooms every year. Yes, you can – with the help of some useful and practical gardening tips you can easily have access to when you pick up a good gardening book!

It’s true: gardening books are a great source of useful tips by experienced gardeners about the varieties of plants, including flowering kinds, veggies, fruit and herbs, that a beginner can start laying their garden down with besides telling them about the kind of precautions needed to ensure the garden grows each season and what kind of tools to use for the care of the plants and the upkeep of the garden. A good gardening book is also a great resource center for beginner gardeners who are on the look-out to gain knowledge about the various seasons to grow different kinds of plants in, the kind of soil each type requires, how big they will grow with the right effort, what kind of containers to use and how much water and sunlight they need to direct to the plant to ensure its health.

Since gardening books can sometimes be an expensive proposition also, especially the glossy, hard-bound collector’s edition ones, you can start off with purchasing a magazine for the same purpose or buy a starter’s guide, which is not too costly and serves well-enough as an initial guide to gardening. Or else, you can borrow one of these good gardening books from a good friend or the library. You can also read tips online.

Now, that we have covered ground for finding gardening books, you can move to the next step i.e. reading the book. Do not skip parts as you will need to read, remember and follow all the directions to plant a garden, how to break up the dirt and the quantity of water, manure mix, sun protection or energy the chosen plants will need. For every variety of plant, all these factors are different as are the season for sowing their seeds, frequency of watering them and nutrient values deemed fit for them, so read with care and follow to the T.

It is not important whether your gardening book is a mere pamphlet or a manual with over 100 pages; what is vital for your knowledge of gardening is that it should provide reliable and adequate information on sowing, protecting and growing a beautiful, insect-free garden, fighting plant diseases, keeping the garden free of weeds and ensuring you have the healthiest blooms every year!