Home gardening magazines are popular because gardening at home is a favourite pastime for many people who have a plot of land around their house, especially the home owners who have a reasonably large yard or area of garden around the house.
While owning a reasonably decent sized lawn may often trigger the gardening bug in you automatically due to the time spent caring for your lawn, you should also understand that pursuing this hobby, just like any other hobby is not always the easiest thing to do if you have no experience in gardening. Growing and caring for plants and flowers can often be a tough job and that requires a reasonable amount of commitment and dedication.
If you are just starting out on your gardening adventure, either with flowers, shrubs, or vegetables, it is always best to do a bit of research or take guidance from professionals first. You will get a lot of handy tips and inspiration fairly quickly which will enable you to be successful in making the most of this hobby.
This is precisely where books and magazines about gardening come in handy and are invaluable. There are many different magazines available that cover different gardening topics so you need to pick the one that you think will suit your plans the best. Books will cover single topics better than individual articles in home gardening magazines, but magazines will give you a range of ideas that you may not otherwise consider if you just buy a couple of general gardening books.
Better Homes and Gardens
Simply put, out of the many home gardening magazines available, the Better Homes and Gardens magazine is excellent for home makers. To generalise, not something I really like to do, this magazine is aimed at women who will be at home as opposed to out at work, who are making their home a better place for their family to live, and that includes the garden and yard.
It is interesting in that it does focus, not only on gardening aspects of home life, but also on maintenance and decoration of the home. This makes it a versatile magazine that will appeal to home makers as it covers a wider variety of topics.
The only problem is that over the years it has had a tendency to include more and more advertisements than content. The end result will be that loyal customers to home gardening magazines like this one will be driven away because the amount of good quality content suffers to make way for more advertising. However, for a first time gardener or home owner, the quality of content included is still very good and enough to give you plenty to look at over and over again.
Fine Gardening
Fine Gardening is another great book about home gardening, whether for beginner or for the expert gardener. This book will provide a lot of information that anyone will be able to use in build a better garden area or brightening up their yard. If you are deadly serious about gardening, and are looking for no-nonsense information, Fine Gardening will not disappoint you. It is full of professional advice, with plenty of examples, and pictures to go with the articles. The suggestions provided are such that you do not need to be an expert or a professional to take advantage and implement the suggestions and tips.
There is a great ‘Tips from Readers’ section included which gives the readers an opportunity to get involved in providing content. For a lot of readers of this magazine, this section gives it extra value for money. Getting handy tips written by other readers, and gardeners, is the way to go. And the reader’s tips have a certain simplicity that makes them excellent for you to try out on your own garden.
The Thrifty Gardener
The Thrifty Gardener is most likely one of the best home gardening magazines you will be able to buy. Gardening as something to enjoy and get on and do is the main theme of this magazine and it does not focus on thinking that gardening is just something that drains your earnings as some of the advertising focused magazines.
This magazine is trying a different approach to making a garden look great. Basically, instead of doing the same as a lot of other magazines will do in covering landscaping and entire garden design, this publication is focussed on finding cheaper alternatives and spending less time and money, building your garden in steps, one at a time, and covering concepts around the planning of your garden, the planting of trees and shrubs, pruning and maintenance, and many basic and inexpensive steps that will help build a great looking garden in the long run.
