Grow Anyway — The PlantProven Field Manual | 360 plants that thrive where nothing else will

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Illustrated PDF · 525 pages
Edition One · 2026

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The Field Manual
360 plant entries, 13 constraint sections, one page each$47
The Kill List
227 plants and practices that waste a season, and why$17
Plant-Match Decision Charts
Six routes from your problem to a shortlist$11
Season Action Calendar
Twelve months of instructions, by zone band$11
First-Harvest Timeline
Six bands, so nothing about the wait surprises you$8
Sourcing & Cost Guide
What is worth buying — and no affiliate links anywhere$8
Profitable Plants appendix
The entries that return more than they cost$7
Lifetime updates
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IIWhy gardens fail

The advice that killed your last three plants.

Almost every failure on difficult ground traces back to advice written for good ground. Left, what you were told. Right, what this manual tells you instead.

Standard advice

"Improve the planting hole with compost." Backfill rich, water it in, walk away.

"Plant deep and firm it in." Standard practice on any soil, including wet clay.

"Give fruit the warm south wall." More heat is always better. Everyone repeats it.

"In a drought, water a little each day." Little and often, so nothing dries out.

"Feed it well and it will crop well." Rich soil, regular nitrogen, more growth.

"Shade is a problem to solve." Fell the tree, or grow nothing but hostas.

Grow Anyway

Do not improve the planting hole. A rich hole in poor ground becomes a pot. Roots circle inside it and never enter the native soil.

On wet ground, plant high — not deep. The crown rots long before the roots drown. Set it proud on a low mound and the same plant lives.

In a cold climate, keep it off that wall. Stored heat breaks the buds early, then the late frost takes the entire crop.

Water deeply and rarely. Mulch beats irrigation. Daily sprinkling holds roots in the top inch — exactly where the soil bakes first.

Some crops fruit badly because the soil is rich. A fig in fed ground makes leaves instead of figs. Poor ground is the point.

Deep shade has 22 crops of its own. Not survivors of shade — plants that require it.

One replaced fruit tree costs more than this book.

Buy it if your ground is the problem — or you have no ground at all. Skip it if you have deep loam, a long season and no complaints.

IIIWhat's inside

Thirteen ways ground goes wrong. And what ignores it.

Each section opens with the argument, then runs the plants that hold it. Start with the one that matches your ground — the other twelve are there for the day your ground, your climate or your circumstances change.

0130 plants

Hostile Soil

Sand, chalk, salt, rubble, hardpan. Stop trying to fix it.

0222 plants

Heavy Clay & Wet Ground

Concrete in August, standing water in February.

0330 plants

Extreme Cold & Short Seasons

Zone 2 and a hundred frost-free days. Fruit that ripens anyway.

0432 plants

Extreme Heat & Drought

Hundred-degree weeks and hose bans, on the rain you already get.

0522 plants

Deep Shade & Low Light

Not plants that tolerate shade — plants that require it.

0632 plants

Containers & Small Spaces

Balcony, patio, doorstep. Rated for pots, not just ground.

0728 plants

Windowsill & Indoor

One bright sill and no garden at all.

0822 plants

No Soil — Water Only

A jar, a bucket, a half-barrel. No soil anywhere.

0930 plants

Boundaries & Ground Cover

Privacy, a windbreak, or ground you never weed again.

1032 plants

Plant Once, Harvest for Decades

Plant it once, eat from it for thirty years.

1130 plants

Maximum Yield Per Square Foot

A small plot and a demand for real calories.

1224 plants

Chemical-Free Protection

Pest control with plants, not a spray bottle.

1326 plants

Year-Round Production

The hungry gap and the winter hole, closed.

+54 pages

Charts, calendar, index

Decision charts, timeline, sourcing, 719-entry index.

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Also inside · 227 entries

The Kill List

Every gardening book tells you what to plant. This is the only one with fourteen pages of what not to — species banned two counties over, species that will be in your neighbour's lawn within three years, and species quietly poisoning everything within forty feet of the trunk.

Found in year four, a restriction costs a season and possibly a fine. Found on page 431, it costs nothing.

⚠ Five rows out of 227

Elderberry	Raw berries and green parts toxic. Cooked only — the entry says how.
Black walnut	Juglone kills tomatoes, apples and most of what you plant near it.
Comfrey	Superb fertiliser. Never internal, whatever the internet says.
Parsnip	Sap blisters skin in sunlight. Harvest covered, on a dull day.
Black locust	Added to a state noxious list in January 2026 — after the usual advice recommended it.

Clear Check locally Restricted in some areas Widely banned

IV

What people ask before they click.

Will these plants work in my climate?

Every entry carries a USDA zone scale from 2 to 11, rated twice — once in the ground and once in a pot, because they are not the same. Marginal zones are marked marginal rather than quietly included.

It is written for North America first, with a conversion appendix for the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and India.

I don't have a garden. Is this useless to me?

Three full sections — 82 entries — assume you don't: containers and small spaces, windowsill and indoor, and water only with no soil at all. That covers a balcony, a north-facing flat, a rented room with one bright sill, and a jar on the kitchen counter.

I rent. Can I still use it?

Yes, and it is one reason the book is organised this way. Every container entry states the pot size the plant actually needs, and the permanent-crop section flags which of them can move house with you. Nothing in the container, windowsill or water sections needs a landlord's permission.

I'm not an experienced gardener. Is this over my head?

No. The register is a grower talking to another adult — no jargon for its own sake, no padding. Each entry is three short blocks: why it performs where others fail, how to plant it, and the mistake that kills it. That last block is the part beginners actually need, and it is in all 360.

For the shortest route in, start with the six decision charts at the back: your problem to a shortlist in about two minutes.

How is this different from the free videos?

The videos give you a list. The book resolves it. On the channel's two biggest videos the top comment is a viewer manually typing out the plants so they don't lose them — this book exists because there was no artifact to keep.

Nothing here is a transcript. Every entry adds the zone scales, pot ratings, time to first crop, sourcing, the legal flag, the substitute and the failure mode — the things a ten-minute video has no room for.

Where do the facts and images come from? Is any of it AI?

The botanical plates are public-domain works — the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen of 1887, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Redouté — every one credited in the back. No identification image in this manual is AI-generated. That is a rule, not a preference: this audience corrects botanical detail in the comments already.

Are all of these plants legal where I live?

Every entry carries one of four risk ratings — Clear, Check locally, Restricted in some areas, Widely banned — and the book deliberately never asserts that a plant is legal in a named place. Counties adopt their own lists: black locust was added to a state noxious-weed list in January 2026, weeks after standard advice recommended it.

The rating is a risk class, not a legal determination. Wherever something is restricted, the entry names a substitute that does the same job.

What format is it, and can I print it?

A single illustrated PDF, 525 pages, US Letter, fonts embedded. It opens on any phone, tablet, Mac or PC and prints cleanly — the type is set large on purpose, and the index uses entry numbers rather than page numbers so it stays correct in every edition. Print the four pages you need for a weekend and leave the rest on the phone.

Is there a subscription, or an upsell after this?

No. One payment, one file, yours permanently, including every future revision and edition at no extra charge. There are no affiliate links anywhere in the book — the sourcing advice occasionally amounts to telling you not to buy anything.

What if it isn't for me?

Reply to your Gumroad receipt within seven days and ask for the refund — no questions and no form to fill in. Gumroad returns it to the card or account you paid with. Keep the file. If the book didn't earn the $47, it shouldn't hold onto it.

360 plants that thrive where nothing else will.