Have you ever envisioned your dinner table being filled with veggies grown from the comfort and warmth of your own backyard? This vision can become your reality faster than you ever imagined—and it’s all thanks to your local library. Your library card, combined with Hoopla’s vast collection of resources for horticulture, provides the perfect launching pad for gardening for beginners. Some of the resources capable of delivering key insights related to gardening for beginners include:
Gardening for Beginners: Grow Your Garden with These eBooks
There’s an abundance of literature available geared toward helping novice gardeners develop a green thumb. A few eBook suggestions that provide valuable insights on gardening for beginners include:
Seasoned home gardeners may be familiar with Joe Lamp’l through the public television show Growing a Greener World, or the joe gardener Show podcast. In The Vegetable Gardening Book, he’ll provide you with all the information necessary for producing better produce than you thought possible from your own backyard or balcony. From maintenance reduction plans to best practices for extending the growing season, Joe covers it all.
In Bailey Van Tassel’s Kitchen Garden Living, she provides readers with best practices for creating a kitchen garden that showcases the personality of the gardener. This recently published guide allows you to follow a few necessary steps toward establishing and maintaining a kitchen garden, from planning through harvest.
Don’t underestimate what you can accomplish within a 30-minute time frame. Author Greg Loades’s The 30-Minute Gardener unveils all the tasks you can accomplish with as much dedicated time in the garden as your busy schedule allows. You’ll even come away with new ideas for your garden that may have never even occurred to you before!
Gardening for Beginners: Audiobooks to Help Your Garden Grow
Let’s say you’d prefer to listen to an audiobook while you’re at work, so when you arrive back home, you’re eager and ready to apply what you’ve learned. We’ve got you covered with a few audiobooks you’ll love, including:
Having more than four decades of horticulture experience makes Robert Pavlis’s audiobook Soil Science for Gardeners an invaluable resource for beginners. This science-based primer on soil fertility, biology, and chemistry could serve as the perfect building block for expanding your gardening knowledge. Whether you’re starting your garden out of recreation or necessity, Soil Science for Gardeners is a great starting point.
Beginners Guide to Successful Container Gardening
Resources that are capable of helping a home garden thrive are all around you, and author Sophie McKay is here to help you identify them. As an emerging voice within the sustainability and gardening spaces, her Beginner’s Guide to Successful Container Gardening provides readers with simple methods for designing a vegetable garden. She’ll also deliver valuable insights on creating spaces that cater to specific plants, harvesting tips, watering techniques, and more.
Fundamentals are always a great place to start. Steven A. Frowine’s Gardening Basics for Dummies delves into the many rudimentary aspects of horticulture you’ll encounter on your journey to grow your own garden, from laying down a lawn to keeping pests at bay. Whether your goal is to beautify your lawn with additional landscaping or to begin growing your own fruits and veggies, Gardening Basics for Dummies can help.
Go from Gardening Novice to Pro with Hoopla!
Ready to have the best home garden in the neighborhood? The first step is getting started—which means visiting your local library and signing up for Hoopla. Then you can begin the journey of growing your own home garden today by exploring our gardening collection. Before you know it, you’ll have more fresh fruit, flowers, and veggies than you’ll know what to do with!
Get Inspired to Grow Your Garden with These Instructional Videos and Educational Series
Suppose you’d like to break up your typical Netflix routine with something new. In this case, you could use your free time to learn how to grow your own garden from scratch, or gather up the motivation and inspiration to do so. A few suggestions to get you in the spirit include:
Gardening with Monty Don (BingePass)
The world contains gardens of all shapes and sizes. Travel across the pond and explore 10 seasons of Gardening with Monty Don as he traverses the UK while helping home gardeners of all skill levels grow crops and landscapes they’ve always hoped for. With more than 300 family-friendly episodes available, it’s the perfect show to binge when you’re bored.
If you’re a visual learner, you’re in for a treat. How to Grow Anything: Your Best Garden and Landscape in 6 Lessons provides viewers with just what the title says—a master class on growing crops of all kinds. This section of The Great Courses series answers just about any question you might have related to growing a garden of your own.
If you’ve ever looked out the window to a view of factories instead of farmland, gathering the inspiration to start a home garden might be tough. But that didn’t stop the protagonists in Urban Roots, who have taken on the task of planting seeds in the fields the factories have abandoned. This film documents the story of how citizens everywhere are reclaiming space and spirits by growing food, flowers, and more, using just the space they’re given.
**Titles may vary by library
How to Start a Garden?
The three main steps to start a garden entail choosing what to plant, selecting a location with a considerable amount of sunlight that also provides suitable drainage, then beginning with a small and manageable plot size.
How to Plant?
Purchase the right type and amount of soil, dig a hole for the plant, and then place it inside and cover it.
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