Do you dream of having an amazing edible garden? For many of us, nothing is better than growing your food. There is something special about taking control of your food choices by growing your food and being involved in the entire process. You don’t have to worry about pesticides and can ensure it tastes as unique as possible. The only real issue is that you can quickly run out of space, leading to careful plant management. It doesn’t help that sometimes having the ‘perfect’ grid-like garden takes up a ton of space and makes it easy for pests to get to your plants quickly.
What if there was an easier way to get more edible food out of your garden while still having a gorgeous-looking yard? Luckily, I recently found the perfect answer – The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer by Christina Chung. Once my complimentary copy of the book arrived, I couldn’t wait to share it with you guys!
The Layered Edible Garden: What Is It
Are you looking for a gardening book to help you get the most out of your limited garden space? If so, you will love The Layered Edible Garden: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer. Here is what the publisher had to say about this new book:
Design, plant, and tend a self-sustaining, high-yielding food garden that saves space by growing plants the way nature intended—in layers.
Say goodbye to long, straight rows of vegetable plants lined up and waiting for attacks from pests and diseases, and say hello to an interplanted polyculture paradise, filled with layers of edible plants that outcompete weeds, share resources, and grow beautifully together.
In The Layered Edible Garden, author and food gardening pro Christina Chung of @fluent.garden introduces a modern approach to home food gardening that follows nature’s lead by growing plants in mixed communities, instead of in agriculture-centric monocultures.
By intentionally including edible plants from 8 different layers (trees, sub-canopy trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, annuals, ground covers, and edible roots) in your home garden, you’ll be building a mini “food forest” that will produce food for years to come and require less work and fewer resources.
With the insight found in The Layered Edible Garden, you’ll:
- Learn how to transform your home’s landscape into an edible plant community
- Meet dozens of plants in each of the 8 layers
- Discover the many perks of growing perennial food crops that return to the garden year after year
- Find design and planting advice to make your layered edible garden as attractive as it is productive
- Be introduced to intensive planting strategies to organize plant layers in a functional and beautiful way
- Acquire info on how to establish new planting areas and how to utilize the existing garden features already present
Whether you have sun or shade, a large growing space or a small one, planting many layers of food plants together results in a diverse, low-maintenance edible garden, filled with plants that help support each other. The future of growing food is multi-layered.
Our Thoughts:
As someone who wants to get the most out of their yard, I have to say I was very impressed with The Layered Edible Garden. The book is filled with gorgeous pictures and fantastic advice, allowing you to get the most out of your edible garden. No longer do you worry about having beautiful, straight lines but creating a yard filled with beauty that keeps away pests and allows pollinators to thrive. While the levels of planning may be a bit too much for beginner gardeners, it is fantastic for those who are unsure what to do with space in their yard or want to bring their garden to the next level.
The Layered Edible Garden: Where to Purchase
Would you like to purchase this gardening book for yourself or as a gift for someone special? You can find The Layered Edible Garden on Amazon.com for under $29.99 in paperback or for your Kindle device. Who knew having a layered garden could be so easy?
About Susan Bewley
Susan Bewley is a professional writer who has been writing content online & in print format for over 10 years. As well, she is an alumni of the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree in Special Education. When not working as an online business consultant or ghost writing, she can be found writing on Budget Earth, on her own novel, or working with various entities in the pet industry.