Great book which would of great interest to gardeners, written for the Northern hemisphere, it can easy be used worldwide, with just a flip of the months and seasons. After all gardening is universal.
The first part of the book talks about the seasons with jobs and tips along the way. The second part of the book is more specific with plant and planting such as vegetables, flowers, ornamental plants such as trees, cacti, water plants and shrubs.. There a lots of list with all the information one needs to choose plants for any space.
There are no photographs to confuse the eye and head - just good solid information and hand drawings where necessary with explanation

I loved how approachable this was - it can seem overwhelming to start gardening but this broke it down beautifully!

This gardening how-to has been an absolute blessing! Easy to read and understand and breaks planting down into easily manageable steps. Thanks to this book, my planning for my garden has gone seamlessly this year.

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Full of useful information and tips. An excellent guide for everyone from novice to experienced Gardner’s. Highly recommended

This is a pretty valuable gardening resource. It's divided into manageable segments, month-by-month and general, trees/bushes, vegetables, and ornamental plants, along with a lot of numerical information at the end detailing soil types, pH, and fertilization charts.

For the most part I would ignore any advice from this book on when to sow seeds/harvest vegetables since it cannot pertain to every climate/zone out there. For that you should get more local information, such as a farmer's almanac.

I did find a vast majority of the tips to be extremely helpful along with some tips I wouldn't have thought about before, such as building birdhouses, introducing ladybugs, or making a fishpond to kill potentially harmful insects. It also has great information on composting, building different garden structures, tool maintenance, and how to garden in greenhouses, rock gardens, and potted gardens.

The index is pretty detailed but it would be invaluable to have an electronic copy with a keyword search function. I think this is a gardening resource more for intermediate to experienced gardeners than it is for beginners.

The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide is a phenomenal source for any gardener. There is a treasure trove of wealth in useful and actionable information that make this book an important part of any gardener's library. Many books out there have isolated or highly specialized content which has its own value. This book is like sitting down with your great-grandma who used to live off the land and who knows a lot about everything.

Amazingly complete month by month - item by item how to book for avid gardeners!

This will be my go to present for all my gardening friends (or even those that WiSH they were gardeners!!

Thank you for this pre-look - can't wait to get my hands on the hard copy!

This book is incredibly thorough, like, if we wanted to leave a record of all human knowledge of gardening tips before they were lost to end of time, this book might do the trick. It offers two organizational schema, which helps readers navigate the plethora of tips either by season or by type of plant. This helps cut through the overwhelm but doesn't fully solve the problem. Some readers might enjoy poring over the tips as listed. For me, a full-text searchable digital copy would be preferable.

This book was absolutely adorable and I will be purchasing a hard copy to share and have on my bookshelf (once again!!). Amazing information for beginner gardeners like me!! Beautiful illustrations too. A must read for all gardeners and folks who are interested in dabbling!

This book is SO visually pleasing - I'd totally get a physical copy to have as a coffee table book. Plus it's come just in time for me to start my summer garden planning! I appreciate that the book is broken up into months and each month has sections within it for general advice, vegetables, ornamental plants, etc. Some of the illustrations are more decorative and some of the illustrations are informative guides. The end includes reference tables for use such as recommended fertilizer quantities and recognizing various plant diseases.

This book is incredibly informative and great for a novice, or an experienced, gardener. Packed full of diagrams and month by month breakdowns of how to tend to your plants and gardens, this book answered any question I had as a beginning vegetable gardner. I suggest this book if you are looking to get started in the world of gardening, or are wanting to build on what you have already created!

This excellent gardening compendium with over 1,300 tips for gardening throughout the year, is an English translation of Franz Böhmig's original work in German. Böhmig was a plant nursery owner and instructor for professional gardeners. This work can help the budding gardener, or someone more advanced in gardening skills, to learn new information, refresh one's knowledge, and successfully create the garden one wants - whether one's garden is for herbs and vegetables, or ornamental flowers and shrubs.

The format of the book is easy to follow, with concise and clear instructions or facts to help the reading gardener. Illustrations also enhance what the author shares, making it easy and demonstrable in a simple way. The set up is also pleasing and easy to read. Even just reviewing the book, I learned some information that I needed for my own garden. The book also contains a reference set of tables with a comprehensive guide about soil, herbs, vegetables, flowers - and how to improve growing conditions individually tailored to the plant. The reference also contains common problems and garden pests, and how best to solve these issues. My only criticism is that this book is very much targeted to gardening and growing conditions of the Northern Hemisphere, and for climates like those in Europe and parts of North America. It lacks a guide for adaptations to different climates, or for the Southern Hemisphere. It could definitely still be used in those contexts, but with perhaps another book or source to help.

This is an excellent addition to any gardener's book collection.

Thank you to NetGalley and Timber Press for this free eARC in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

Gardening tips and tricks. Over a thousand different tip to help you garden better. Clearly a wealth of information! Read it by month to month or all at once. Some great ideas! Thanks to the publisher for an ARC to read. Four stars.

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I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. Very informative book! I can't wait to go back and read more about this book. Hight recommend!

I don’t have much of a green thumb, so this is a guide that would be really great to have on hand. It is very comprehensive and includes pretty much every detail that is needed to plant, prune, and prepare your garden year-round. The month-by-month layout makes for a perfectly accessible reference guide!

Love the colors! Such vibrant colors that are clean yet calming.

Talks about gardening as a way to relax. I think people are having a garden as a chore sometimes. It definitely isn’t easy! But you can find such peace when working with dirt and plants.

Gardening isn’t just a spring/summer activity. There is work to be done year round to ensure a healthy, successful garden. This books discusses how best to use your time to make all aspects of your garden work. Full of info on top quality items from the soil to the tools to the plants you select. I’m so excited to reread each month’s chapter as a new month begins.

One of my favorite things about gardening is seeing the wild life react around it and get involved. I’m not one that complains when a critter has gotten some of my plants because they are there to be enjoyed! This book gives a lot of information of taking care of birds. It shares that having birds near your garden acts as a natural pest control! So true!

This book is so full of helpful tips. I think I need to invest in a physical copy so I can really take advantage of all it has to offer and keep near my gardening supplies. This would make a perfect gift for plant lovers in your life!!
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First of all, absolutely gorgeous book that I would love to have as a coffee table book.

The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide is without a doubt, the ultimate beginner's guide to gardening. This work is perfect for me because I have always had an interest in gardening, but have felt too overwhelmed to start. This book solves that problem by going month by month and breaking down everything you need to know to get started including even square footage needed as well as the purpose for each type of garden.

One other aspect that really stood out to me as a total newbie to gardening was how easy the language is to understand. Also, there are multiple graphics/instructional pictures included so I felt like I could actually understand everything they were describing even if I wasn't already familiar with it.

3.25 stars!

An incredibly useful guide for those looking to seriously get into gardening. I really appreciated its organization; the book is split into each month of the year, but there exist different categories within each month with specific advice for that category (i.e. ornamental gardens, indoor gardens, etc). This, I feel, was an excellent decision. If a reader is looking for specific advice, they know exactly where to go to find it and bypass the need to read the entire 400 pages.

There was a multitude of interesting facts and tidbits of knowledge that were news to me, including the fact that slugs are actually harmful to gardens (who knew?). As a biologist, I appreciated the care given to environmental health as well. One moment of care I noted lay in the mention of peat - peat is a rarer soil type that many consider to be good for gardening, but this book mentions that removal of peat from its natural habitat can have devastating effects on the wetlands it is a part of. It was little mentions like that that helped to sell me on this book.

Additionally, I thought the tables at the end a good add as well. They help to summarize information in a way that isn't as wordy. This leads to my main critique of the book: it does tend to err on the wordy side. Though the organization certainly helps, the sheer size of the book feels intimidating, and the breadth of knowledge displayed within it could deter a novice gardener looking to delve deeper. Overall, however, I found it to be an interesting and informative read, and it left me a little bit sad I didn't have the room to garden like this myself.

The Month-by-Month Gardening Guide is one of those books that is vital in a time when we can’t quite be sure what exactly is in our food. There are tons upon tons of incredibly helpful tips for getting the most out of your garden. I know this is a book I will be utilizing more often than not in the future.

This helpful guide is for more experienced gardeners, but I could see intermediate gardeners finding their footing with this book too.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for this eARC in exchange for an honest review!