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Gaia's Garden is especially helpful for those wanting an introduction to edible landscaping and permacuture. This book was the source for many techniques that I now use including hugelkultur. There is a wealth of information for the organic gardener on soil building, companion planting, and landscape planning. |
I checked this book out of the library time and time again before finding room in my budget to buy it. I'm so glad to have it handy now. I use it constantly in my organic garden. Coleman's focus in this book is on growing food year round. Since he grows food in an unheated greenhouse in Maine all through the winter, I knew his expertise and first hand experience will help you. Even if you use only a small cold frame, you too can have year round fresh vegetables. Coleman's tip, throughout the book, are priceless. He gives specifics for each vegetable too.
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In addition to information for soil preparation and wide-row vegetable gardens, the author provides help for getting as much food from your space as possible. I especially use the last half of this book. It contains a wealth of helpful gardening tips and information for each type of vegetable you want to grow. Each vegetable has ts own section where information on how and when to plant, spacing, maintaining the plant and help for common problems is included. |
This book isn't about gardening, its about why everyone should buy local. But this book is inspring. As you read through the moving stories you'll just itch to grow more and do more. |
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John Jeavon's 6th edition of this very helpful book. The chart for plant spacing and sowing times is one I use constantly. Jeavons describes how to grow an abundant organic garden and feed a family in a small space. His book was one of the first I bought and it is dog eared and thoroughly used now. |
The Twelve Month Gardener contains specific and detailed plans for building cold frames, tunnels, and small greenhouses. The author also describes cloche basics. He then goes on to describe a few cold vegetables to grow. If you haven't tried a cold frame, get this book and build at least one. The cold frame extends the growing season in my organic garden greatly and is very much used here. |
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| I know its called "The Apple
Grower" but this book has made me a better grower of vegetables and
other fruits too! The author's format makes understanding soil
processes easy to follow. Now if you want great apples, you can't
find a better book out there than this one. In 2006 we ate the
first apples from our Black Twig apple tree. It was heaven!
I will never eat a super market apple with the same bliss. ESPECIALLY
if you've been told, as I have that organic apples are impossible to
grown, this book is for you! |
Teaming with Microbes is written for the gardening who wants to optimize her/his harvest. If you want healthier plants, plants resistant to pests, disease and drought, plants that provide more food, take time to read this book. The books goes into detail about how we can invite microbes into our garden and why we need to. Since I starting focusing on soil health, soil diversity and microbes in the soil, my garden has leaped ahead in productivity. Yours will too! |
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"The New Organic Grower" is a book I use over and over again. Coleman is very readable and his tips are most helpful. |
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World Record Tomatoes isn't only about getting a prize winning tomato. Its about how to grow a lot of food in a small space. The author takes you step by step through the process of getting tomatoes to bear more fruit than you thought possible. The photos are astounding, the information is terrific and this book is a favorite of mine. Once you finesse your tomato skills, you'll be surprised to find all those great tips are just as useful for the rest of your garden too! |
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If I could only buy one magazine Mother Earth News would be it. Gardening, recipes, solar power, and sustainable living are my primary interests. This most excellent magazine provides archives of back issues on its website. Wonderful! |
Lasagna GArdening was a book I found at the thrift store and tossed to my oldest to see if I could get him interested in having his own bed. He read it greedily and tossed all sorts of information back to me while starting his own vegetable patch. My second oldest got his hands on the book and now has his own garden spot, a reading and studying garden that is just his own. I found the book helpful but it was especially inspiring to the kids. |
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Countryside is the only other magazine other than Mother Earth News I'm currently getting in the mail. Its absolutely filled with wisdom for self sufficiency. |
Great Garden Formulas was one of the first books to lure me into the world of gardening. I wanted to know how to take care of black spot on my roses. I called my extension agent and was given a VERY scary list of all the fungicides I could use. I tried to explain I wanted organic help and he said that organic was IMPOSSIBLE. I didn't listen. Instead I went to the library and found this book. Soon my roses (and the rest of my plants) were much healthier and happier. |
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High Yield Gardening tell you how to intensively cultivate, getting as much harvest as possible from your garden. Its one of those timeless gems. |
Getting the Most From Your Garden: Using Advanced Intensive Gardening Techniques contains a section (nearly half) written about how gardeners intensively grow in each region of the United States. Its a throrough work with heaps of information. You can't go wrong with the help from this book. |
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