Old Farmer's Almanac Garden Guide 2026

Garden Guide 2026 - Print Edition

“A garden may be made the companion and friend of many a leisure hour.”
–The Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1928

From the experts at growing everything, The Old Farmer’s Almanac 2026 Garden Guide is the only guide you need to have a bountiful garden. The latest edition includes stories on the hippest houseplants, saving seeds, healing gardens, fireproof landscapes, and secrets for getting veggies off to a good start. If you want to grow a bounty of fruits, herbs, and vegetables, cultivate flowers in a riot of colors and textures, rethink your landscape, or grow a fairy garden, this is the growing companion for you!

The full-color, 128-page Garden Guide is devoted entirely to gardening, featuring helpful tips, charts, and expert advice for growing vegetables, flowers, fruits, herbs, shrubs, lawns, trees, and more. Kick-start your gardening year with such features as: 

·        Trends for 2026, including cool plants for colder months, solutions for tiny space gardening, fast-growing food, all about serviceberries, and how to attract hummingbirds

·        The Greatest Show in Earth: Dreams begin at the Philadelphia Flower Show—the world’s largest indoor flower show. Experience what it takes to bring this magical show to life and how it rewrites the rules of gardening for its attendees.

·        Mini Forests, Mighty Impact: Learn about communities that are working together to create sustainable compact forests.

·        Cool Beans: Why dried beans—an oft-overlooked superfood—may become your new obsession for a healthier self, better soil, and a more sustainable planet.

·        Plus: George Washington’s iconic shrubbery, building a garden fit for a fairy, how to get rid of villainous invaders in the landscape, tips for growing a peck of peppers and stunning sunflowers, healing herbs, tools to raise your gardening game, spinach recipe contest winners, and more!