Grow a New Garden - by Becky Searle (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Create a new garden that blooms for you, in any space or patch of land that you want to call a garden. In Grow a New Garden, Becky Searle (Sow Much More on Instagram) offers a warm and chatty practical guide to designing and planting beautiful, healthy gardens, based on her own experiences. Becky has changed gardens several times in the last few years due to changes in her personal circumstances, but she has created a garden everywhere she goes. The garden that she has today is a new-build property garden. When she moved in December 2022, it was entirely devoid of plants. Two years later, Becky has created a joyful space for growing food and flowers and for her growing family! Becky came to realise that what she had learned in this garden could apply to any new garden, whether you are starting from scratch, dealing with an overgrown or neglected garden or redesigning an existing garden. From building healthy soil to creating a natural and sustainable garden with a thriving ecosystem that encourages biodiversity to planning your dream garden while dealing with awkward spaces, noise or privacy, Becky will give gardeners, whether new or experienced, a complete understanding of how gardens work, demystifying garden design and making gardening easier and more enjoyable. Grow a New Garden that works for you!"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

"Aspirational, accessible, awesome."--Huw Richards, author of The Permaculture Garden

Create a new garden that blooms for you, in any space or patch of land that you want to call a garden.

In Grow a New Garden, Becky Searle (@sow_much_more on Instagram) offers a warm and chatty practical guide to designing and planting beautiful, healthy gardens, based on her own experiences.

Becky has changed gardens several times in the last few years due to changes in her personal circumstances, but she has created a garden everywhere she goes. The garden that she has today is a new-build property garden. When she moved in December 2022, it was entirely devoid of plants. Two years later, Becky has created a joyful space for growing food and flowers and for her growing family!

Becky came to realise that what she had learned in this garden could apply to any new garden, whether you are starting from scratch, dealing with an overgrown or neglected garden or redesigning an existing garden.

From building healthy soil to creating a natural and sustainable garden with a thriving ecosystem that encourages biodiversity to planning your dream garden while dealing with awkward spaces, noise or privacy, Becky will give gardeners, whether new or experienced, a complete understanding of how gardens work, demystifying garden design and making gardening easier and more enjoyable. Grow a New Garden that works for you!

"I thoroughly recommend this book to beginners and also to experienced gardeners."--Charles Dowding, author of No Dig

Review Quotes

"Aspirational, accessible, awesome. If only my compost was as rich as this book; Becky's wisdom is palpable. A brilliant balance of the why and the how, this book will pioneer the next generation of gardens. Grow a New Garden is the ultimate gardening tool in the shape of a book."--Huw Richards, author of The Permaculture Garden

"Becky's writing is so refreshing. She has learnt by doing and has a refreshing "you can do it" approach. I thoroughly recommend this book to beginners and also to experienced gardeners for inspiring descriptions of simple, beautiful things you can do. Becky demystifies any gardening jobs that look complicated."--Charles Dowding, author of No Dig

"Becky completely captures the passion and excitement of creating your own garden. Her insights from her personal journey combined with expert knowledge truly makes this an accessible book for anyone looking to start, create and maintain their own garden. An ecological approach with nature at its heart is exactly what new gardeners need right now!"--Chris Hull, garden designer and presenter

"An inspiring yet incredibly thorough book covering everything you could possibly need to know about starting a garden from scratch. Becky has the wonderful ability to turn complex topics into easily accessible guidance. This is the book I wish I had had when I first started my gardening journey."--Bex Partridge, floral artist; founder, Botanical Tales

"Detailed . . . yet accessible to new gardeners and easy to understand. . . Gardeners looking for an enthusiastic and thorough guidebook for starting their own garden from scratch will find an enjoyable tour guide in Searle."--Library Journal

About the Author

Becky Searle is an ecologist turned kitchen gardener. A self-taught designer, she has planned her own gardens from scratch. Her first garden as an adult was a tiny terrace outside a ground-floor flat. Since then, she has gardened in a 1960s house, a 1930s house and two new-build houses. Becky has a monthly feature in Kitchen Garden magazine, for which she was shortlisted for 'Environmental Journalist of the Year' by the Garden Media Guild in both 2022 and 2023. Becky also writes for Gardener's World, and her work has been featured in The English Garden magazine, Grow Your Own magazine and Amateur Gardening magazine. Her own garden has been featured in the Guardian and Modern Gardens magazine. Becky is @sow_much_more on Instagram.