**FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NETTLES & PETALS**
Stop fighting weeds, and start putting them to work with bestselling author, Jamie Walton (@nettlesandpetals).
What if the most overlooked plants in your garden were actually the most useful? In this practical, thought-provoking guide, Jamie challenges everything we’ve been taught about weeds, revealing why they appear and how working with natural processes can transform the way we garden. His straightforward guidance invites you to embrace weeds and put them to work through accessible, inspiring chapters:
- Meet Your Garden Weeds: friendly introductions to 23 of the most common and surprisingly useful species.
- Manage the Weeds: Learn why they appear, and how gardening with natural processes drastically reduces the need to weed.
- Grow the Weeds: discover how to cultivate weeds with purpose, whether for pollinators, soil health, microgreens or companion planting.
- Eat the Weeds: enjoy delicious, nutrient-packed recipes including dandelion and burdock soda, bramble fruit leather and Jamie's wild garden kimchi.
- Treat with Weeds: make simple, safe and soothing homemade remedies for everyday ailments.
- Use the Weeds: practical craft projects such as bindweed cord, mixed weed plant feeds and natural plant dyes.
Packed with tried and tested
advice, creative projects and inspiring ways to use the plants already growing around you, this book flips traditional gardening wisdom on its head, revealing a world of beauty, flavour and usefulness hidden in plain sight.
If you’re ready to garden more sustainably, cook more creatively and rethink everything you thought you knew about weeds, this is your invitation to garden with nature, not against it, and step into a wilder, richer way of growing.