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Post by daylilydude on Oct 13, 2017 3:54:51 GMT -5
Do you have any particular gardening reading material you would think would be a good read for new and old gardeners alike?
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Post by ladymarmalade on Oct 13, 2017 8:38:26 GMT -5
I love most of Eliot Coleman's books on extending the growing season. Lots of great gardening advice from him in there!
Not specifically a gardening book, but for inspiration, every winter I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. She is one of my favorite fiction authors, but her family took a year and decided to eat local, and this book was the result of that journey. I always get so inspired by their gardening efforts and their forays into animal husbandry... It's a great book to pick up when the polar vortex is hanging around yet again.
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Post by paulf on Oct 13, 2017 8:46:22 GMT -5
For simple tips and easy reading there is a soft back book by Better Homes and Gardens called Gardening Tips.. For those interested in companion planting along with some pretty solid information about gardening in general, I have The Mix and Match Guide to Companion Planting by Josie Jeffry. Because I am primarily a tomato grower, I highly recommend two books by friends of mine in the tomato world. First a really well done and visually pleasing book by Craig LeHoullier, Epic Tomatoes, how to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time. And the tomato bible for me since I began growing OP tomatoes nearly twenty years ago after struggling for twenty years before that with those boring hardware store hybrids, Carolyn Male's 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden.
For general all-around information on gardening and landscape care, the most important book I have is the handbook I got while going through the Master Gardener training sessions. Mine is called The Nebraska Master Gardener Volunteer Handbook. This was part of the University of Nebraska Extension Master Gardener program but I would bet all State's Master Gardener programs have very similar handbooks. This is a very comprehensive horticultural book and has nearly 500 pages of growing information.
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Post by meandtk on Oct 13, 2017 9:45:06 GMT -5
Mother Earth News Guide To Vegetable Gardening The Victory Garden
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Post by september on Oct 13, 2017 10:27:07 GMT -5
The Victory Garden Cookbook, by Marian Morash. Covers vegetables in A-Z format, with some gardening tips for each, but the main attraction is beautiful illustrations and useful recipes of how to use them in cooking, both plain and fancied up. When I worked in the library, I took this book home until it was well overdue! I had to buy myself my own copy before I brought it back.
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