The Four-Season Garden

You know how to garden. But do you know when?

Most gardening books teach you how to plant, prune, water, and feed. But the question that trips up more beginners than any technique is a simpler one: when? When is it safe to plant out? When should you prune, mulch, harvest, or protect your plants from the cold? A garden is a living thing that turns through a whole year-and knowing what it needs, and when, is the difference between a garden that thrives and one that lurches from crisis to crisis.

In The Four-Season Garden, Rachel Beilerwood hands you the missing map: a clear, season-by-season guide to caring for your whole garden across the entire year, so you always know what to do next and never feel a step behind.

And because a garden in Minnesota and one in Florida run on completely different clocks, this book refuses to give you fixed dates that fit nobody. Instead, it teaches you to read your own seasons from your local frost dates and climate zone-so every 'when' inside becomes specific to your garden, wherever you live.

Inside this beginner-friendly guide you'll learn how to:

• Read your seasons from your frost dates and USDA hardiness zone-the one skill that unlocks everything else
• Know what each season is really for, and work a gentle step ahead of your garden all year
• Wake the garden up in spring: prepare soil, prune, and plant at the right moment (and not a day too early)
• Keep everything thriving through summer-watering, feeding, harvesting, and beating heat waves
• Make the most of fall's double gift: the big harvest and a second planting season
• Put the garden to bed and protect it through winter-then plan next year by the fire
• Master the year-round habits that quietly carry a garden through every season
• Bend the whole framework to fit a hot climate, a cold one, or anything in between

You'll also get quick-reference charts, a full season-by-season task directory, and a worksheet for building your own personal garden calendar-plus a clear diagram for every key idea and honest, jargon-free guidance throughout.

Stop wondering what you should be doing out there. Start knowing.

Scroll up, grab your copy, and make this your best gardening year yet.