Explore the basic principles underlying successful, environmentally friendly gardening, including the structure and physiological processes of plants and their relationships to the settings in which they grow. Students learn not only what to do, but why. Topics include soils and their improvement, seed sowing, vegetative propagation, planting, pruning, watering, weeding, mulching, and disease and pest control. This New York Botanical Garden online class takes place Saturdays, July 25 – August 29, 10 – noon, and is $325 ($295 for NYBG members). Register at https://www.enrole.com/nybg/jsp/session.jsp?sessionId=211GAR301GO&courseId=204GAR301O&categoryId=8AEA8481

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The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, Daryl Beyers
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Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon
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Start with the Soil, Grace Gershuny
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Plant Propagator’s Bible, Miranda Smith
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Cass Turnbull’s Guide to Pruning, Cass Turnbull
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