A great guide to beginning your first edible garden. Great tips and tricks to help you make the most of your space by producing for your family.

I love forest gardening and this book basically combines forest gardening (layered permaculture gardening) with backyard conventional gardening. The basic principle is that you have a top story (large trees) and then an understory layer (small trees and shrubs like elderberry), then perennial plants like rhubarb and asparagus, and then herbs and annuals along with vines. I loved all of the photos and there’s lots of good info.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book for review.

This is a beautifully designed guide
I will definitely buy for my green-thumbed husband as a gift. Helps gardeners at any level hone their skills to produce gorgeous layered gardens.

As a newer gardener I’ve been looking for reliable information to get suggestions on the different options for setting up my garden and how to make the best use of space. This book gave great insights and had some beautiful pictures. I’d recommend this book to new and seasoned gardeners alike because I think it has information that everyone can take from it.

Thank you NetGalley and Ms Chung for the Advance Digital Copy.

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.

I enjoyed reading and learning but felt that it may be difficult given my climate and Zone. I think combining this resource with another would be extremely helpful.

The Layered Edible Garden
A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Productive Food Garden Layer by Layer
Christina Chung
What is a Layered Garden? “A Layered Garden uses different plants and flower to create a garden that has depth, color, and texture. Layering can mean that there are three layers of plants in a garden: ground cover, low shrubs, and trees, and tall shrubs and trees.” A layered garden can conserve room allowing the gardener to have a more efficient use of garden space. Too often we put our pretty flowers in the front of our garden and keep the vegetables in the back, with layering we intermingle the plants. But there is more to the concept. “Thinking in terms of layers will help you get the most from your garden, in every sense: more plants, more food, more beauty, less space that doesn’t live up to its full potential.” Layering benefits, the environment and the insects.
Layering is a complex concept. A layered garden is beautiful, but it is not laid out in rows, lines or a grid. A layered garden has a bit of a wild look or perhaps the term should be natural. There is very little to no bare soil. Author Christina Chung discusses several types of trees including maple and persimmon. I enjoyed the discussion of herbs especially rosemary, one of my favorites.
While I do not fully understand the concept I am intrigued.
Thank you NetGalley for a copy of this book for review. As always my reviews are my unbiased opinions.

There were lots of photos. I appreciate that in a “how-to” book. I needed more guidance, though, on the goal of my planting. The photos showed cool, cloudy looking places; I live in a furnace during the summer. Will these techniques and plants work for me? So many questions.

This is a beautiful book, with lots of information and great pictures. Smart and logical layout, and because of the subject, there is a lot about landscaping as well as gardening. Anyone interested in plants will love this book, and it's a must for homesteaders and those who want to be self-sufficient.

I was provided an uncorrected arc by NetGalley and am thrilled to be able to review this book before it is published. What a great way to make the most of a small space by layering! This book has great knowledge of plants and guides you to what to plant where.

I would recommend this book.

I thought this was an interesting way to plan out a home garden. The author provides a lot of detail behind her designs, and there are plenty of lawn schematics and pictures to provide visual aids throughout the process. I will find this book very useful in the spring time when I start working on the garden again.

*** Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Cool Springs Press for providing this title in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for this eCopy to review

A very informative book on how to make the most of your garden space by growing in layers just like nature does. Lots of beautiful photographs for inspiration and an extensive range of different plants to grow for each area.

Easy to read and follow the instructions

I absolutely LOVED this book. My husband and I have a garden on our large property that we keep as mainly beds and bags. This book will be helpful in actually USING our property and putting things in the ground. We have been interested in Permaculture and this books gives hints of that. What a concept, the layered garden. One I haven’t heard before but am interested in seeing how this goes!

Enjoyable, informative and accessible. I know very little about edible gardening and found the information here very helpful and easy to read/conceptualize. Think it would also be a worthwhile read for more experienced gardeners.

5 stars for now, but watch me come back in the spring and change it to 1 star when I realize it is much easier to read about gardening than to actually do it, and sending CURSES to the author on the reg. Jk jk, of course! 5 stars!