2024 Garden's Guide Farmer's Alamanac

The Garden Guide’s large, full-color pages are devoted exclusively to gardening with helpful tips, charts, advertisements, and advice from experts for growing the best vegetables, flowers, fruits, herbs, shrubs, lawns, trees and more. This year’s Guide features gardens of creative containers, classic hanging baskets and much more!

Magazine-Style Softcover   |   Printed in the USA   |  128  Pages   |   Size: 8-1/8" × 10-7/8" |  Full-Color Throughout

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL REPORT

• YES, YOU CANNABIS! If it’s high time that you grew your own, these expert tips will help your weed succeed.

LANDSCAPING

• GARDENS OF CONTAINMENT Creative containers provide space solutions.
• UNRAVELING GRAVEL Dramatically less watering and weeding are a stone’s throw away.

ECO-GARDENING

• DESIGN. PLANT. REPEAT. The pleasing patterns of matrix planting

ORNAMENTALS

• FOLLOW YOUR NOSE Regional experts share their favorite fragrant plants.
• FIENDS WITH BENEFITS Most plants are nice. Some are not. Yet in the end they have good points, too.
• SINGULAR SENSATIONS How to keep classic hanging basket plants abloom all season long

HOUSEPLANTS

• EASY-PEASY HOUSEPLANTS These exotic-looking plants are surprisingly low-maintenance.

DO-IT-YOURSELF

• BLOOMING BEVERAGES Freshen up your cocktails, mocktails, and spritzers.

COOKING FRESH

• THE 2023 CARROT RECIPE CONTEST WINNERS

EDITOR’S NOTE GARDENING FOR THE SOUL

GARDENING TRENDS WE’RE GROWING MORE IN ’24! Cultivating flowers, herbs, and vegetables fuels body, mind, and soul.

WEATHER WISDOM NOT SO SILENT SPRING Be careful what you wish for: The effects of an early spring could be chilling

THE PASSIONATE GARDENER GROWING MY COMMUNITY

PLOT PLAN EATING AROUND THE BUSHES A border beautiful enough to eat

EDIBLES THE JOY OF HEIRLOOM TOMATOES How saving legacy seeds and sharing their progeny can bring happiness and enrichment to your life

THE PASSIONATE GARDENER WELCOME TO MY FOREVER GARDEN

DO-IT-YOURSELF COME TO YOUR SENSES! The feel, taste, and smell of plants can have transformative effects.

GARDEN INSPIRATION CULTIVATE MINDFULNESS . . . and harvest benefits for body, mind, and spirit

PRODUCT GUIDE GARDENING GADGETS & GEAR Special ideas for giving and getting

ALMANAC ADVICE pH PREFERENCES OF TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS, AND VEGETABLES

ALMANAC ADVICE FROSTS & GROWING SEASONS