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BEGINNER

GARDENING

STEP BY STEP

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BEGINNER

GARDENING

STEP BY STEP

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CONTENTS

6 Introduction

GETTING STARTED

10 Which way does your

garden face?

12 Know your soil

16 Improving your soil

18 Choosing the right

potting soil

20 Choosing healthy

plants

FLOWERS

& FOLIAGE

24 Sowing seeds

outdoors

26 Sowing seeds indoors

28 Growing plants that last

30 Growing sunflowers

34 Preparing pots

for planting

36 Plant up a colorful

container

38 Make a spring

hanging basket

40 Planting a shady

window box

42 Planting bulbs in a pot

44 Making a border

50 Making raised beds

and edges

54 Choosing flowers and

foliage for spring

containers

56 Choosing flowers and

foliage for summer

containers

LAWNS

60 Laying sod

62 Sowing grass seed

64 How to make

a lawn edging

68 Growing bulbs in grass

70 Caring for your lawn

CLIMBERS

76 Planting a climber

78 Potting up climbers

80 Planting an obelisk

82 Create a tower of

climbers

84 Make an ivy topiary ball

88 Build a rose arch

92 Pruning a rose arch

94 Pruning a rose on a wall

98 Pruning wisteria

100 Cutting back ivy

102 Raise new plants

by layering

104 Choosing climbers

for spring interest

106 Choosing climbers

for summer interest

SHRUBS

110 Planting a shrub

112 Planting a shrub in a pot

116 Planting a bare-root rose

118 Pruning an early summer-

flowering shrub

120 Lightly pruning shrubs

122 Pruning a shrub rose

124 Pruning hydrangea

Editors Emma Tennant, Jane Simmonds

US Editor Megan Douglass

Project Art Editors

Mandy Earey, Charlotte Johnson

Managing Editor Dawn Henderson

Managing Art Editor Marianne Markham

DK Picture Library Emily Reid

Jacket Creative Steven Marsden

Producer Rebecca Falloweld

Creative Technical Support

Sonia Charbonnier

Art Director Maxine Pedliham

Publishing Director Mary-Clare Jerram

First American Edition, 2019

Published in the United States by DK

Publishing

345 Hudson Street, New York, New York

10014

Copyright 2018 Dorling Kindersley Limited

DK, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC

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001309889Mar/2019

All rights reserved.

Without limiting the rights under the

copyright reserved above, no part

of this publication may be reproduced,

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retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form,

or by any means (electronic, mechanical,

photocopying, recording, or otherwise),

without the prior written permission of the

copyright owner.

Published in Great Britain by Dorling

Kindersley Limited

A catalog record for this book

is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4654-7700-2

Printed and bound in China

A world of ideas:

see all there is to know

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128 Pruning lavender

130 Pruning for winter stems

132 Planting a hedge

134 Trimming a hedge

136 Making a topiary cone

138 Repotting a shrub

140 Choosing shrubs for

year-round interest

142 Choosing shrubs for

autumn interest

GRASSES

146 Planting grasses in

the ground

148 Caring for grasses

152 Cutting back grasses

154 Dividing grasses

156 Choosing grasses

SMALL TREES

160 Planting a tree

166 Removing a branch

168 Moving a tree or shrub

170 Choosing trees for

small gardens

VEGETABLES

174 Growing seeds in trays

178 Sowing seeds in

small pots

180 Growing vegetables

from plug plants

182 Raising lettuces on

a windowsill

184 Growing tomatoes

186 Growing climbing beans

190 Growing root crops

192 Growing early potatoes

194 Growing potatoes in a

trash can

HERBS

198 Growing herbs from seed

204 Planting an herb garden

206 Planting an herb

hanging basket

208 Making a lavender hedge

210 Growing herbs

from cuttings

214 Dividing herbs

FRUIT

218 Planting a basket

of strawberries

220 Planting an apple

tree in a pot

224 Pruning an apple tree

226 Soft fruit in small spaces

228 Tree fruit in small spaces

PRACTICALITIES

232 Watering plants

234 Making your own

compost

236 How and when to prune

238 Caring for your tools

242 Troubleshooting weeds

244 Dealing with pests

246 Preventing diseases

248 Know your garden friends

250 Index

256 Acknowledgments

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Planting up your own patch of earth is a wonderful experience, but deciding what

to grow in the land that lies before you can be a daunting task. For those starting

out, lled with excitement at the idea of growing fruits and vegetables, or planting

trees and owers, this book provides the answers.

Getting Started will help you to get to know your space and choose plants that

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