Looking for a Beginner’s Gardening Guide for the 21st Century? The Next-Generation Gardener is Here!
We are in the midst of a gardening paradigm shift. Social media is inundated with self-professed indoor plant parents and houseplant influencers. People are growing food at rates not seen since the Victory Garden movement of the World Wars. Lawns are out; pollinator gardens are in. The 2021 Garden Media Trend Report put it best: we are in the middle of A Great Reset. At the center of this Great Reset is a new generation of gardeners – the next generation – whose demographic makeup and gardening philosophy differ vastly from the traditions we know.
Who is this next generation?
They are the renters with little space to garden; the tech masters with a desire to get away from screens; the workaholics with no free time; the environmental activists with an interest in health and wellness. They are also curious, hungry to learn, and passionate about plants.
The Next Generation Gardener is the ultimate book for these 21st-century gardeners. Geared toward beginners, it covers every aspect of gardening a next-generation gardener would need to know – understanding plants, indoor gardening, container gardening, vegetable gardening, and sustainability. Each chapter starts with the absolute basics and provides the foundational knowledge to read plants, grow them, and become a master gardener.
You’ll learn about the basic needs of a plant and how to read its ‘body language’, how to decode botanical plant names, what’s wrong with your indoor plants, propagation techniques, building and maintaining a container garden, how to grow enough food to sustain you throughout the year, how to garden with the planet in mind, and a host of other things to take you from beginner next generation gardener to expert.