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Delia's Kitchen Garden: A Beginner's Guide to Growing and Cooking Fruit and Vegetables Gay Search, Delia Smith
BBC Books, 2008
Delia Smith has always been concerned with the quality and flavor of the ingredients she uses, and nothing comes fresher than fruit and vegetables straight from the garden. When the opportunity arose for her to work with garden expert Gay Search to create her own kitchen garden, she seized the chance. This guide, with gardening advice by Gay and recipes and advice on cooking the crops from Delia, ...
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Beginning Hydroponics Revised Ed 8 reviews Richard E. Nicholls
Running Press, 1990
An Excellent Intro to a Technology with Proven Potential
+ A little help for my Greenhouse Business!
Hydroponics... presents an open and honest introduction to the subject of growing plants without soil, covering its long history (especially before it was called 'hydroponics' and before Western Europeans happened upon it), the basic principles underlying hydroponics and the more common methods of ...
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Growing Bulb Vegetables Richard Bird
Lorenz Books, 2004
Helpful hints on how to avoid pests and diseases, and what to do when problems occur.
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Growing Root Vegetables (Kitchen Garden) Richard Bird
Lorenz Books, 2003
Whether you are a novice gardener or an expert looking to introduce variety in your kitchen garden, this book has something for everyone.
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A Harvest of Color: Growing a Vegetable Garden Melanie Eclare
Ragged Bear, 2002
A group of neighborhood children transform a bare patch of earth into a vegetable garden. They learn simple but important lessons: to plant in straight rows, to thin seedlings, and the value of worms. They make notes on their efforts and compile useful lists of gardening tips. The result is a colorful, graphic scrapbook/diary/photo album. Turning her lens from growing a single sunflower (A ...
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Growing Vegetables: A Basic Guide to Vegetable Gardening Robert J. Dolezal
Creative Publishing International, 2002
-Learn how to plant and care for your vegetable garden.
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Vegetable Gardening: A Manual On The Growing Of Vegetables For Home Use And Marketing (1914) Samuel B. Green
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007
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The Farmer's Wife Guide To Growing A Great Garden And Eating From It, Too!: Storing, Freezing, and Cooking ... 3 reviews Barbara Doyen
M. Evans and Company, Inc., 2002
Excellent Book for All Gardeners!! Makes it fun and easy!
+ The best gardening book! + excellent investment for the home gardener
I am a 25 yr. old gardener. This is my 2nd year in a community garden and I love it. This book is absolutely perfect!!! I wish I would have had it last year. My garden is 10 times more productive and fun! The book gives clear descriptions of how to plant, harvest, store and enjoy a large ...
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Growing Vegetables in the Great Plains Joseph R. Thomasson
University Press of Kansas, 1991
The Great Plains may be the breadbasket of the nation, but it's a tough place to grow vegetables. Damaging spring winds, unpredictable hail storms, and late freezes combine with scorching summer heat, parched ground, and hordes of plant-destroying insects to ravage the crops of unwary gardeners. But a bountiful Plains garden, brimming with luscious tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, carrots, squash, ...
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Growing Vegetable Soup: Lap-Sized Board Book 6 reviews Lois Ehlert
Red Wagon Books, 2007
Excellent book
+ Good book on gardening life cycle + Good lesson for little children + Good Book for Small Children - a review of Growing Veg. Soup
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Practical Gardener's Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruit and Herbs: A complete how-to handbook for gardening ... Richard Bird
Southwater, 2007
There is nothing quite like growing your own vegetables, herbs and fruit, and this classic kitchen garden book will give you the know-how, skills and techniques to grow your own crops, whether you want a large vegetable plot or a small herb garden. Desig
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My Vegetable Love: A Journal of a Growing Season (Bur Oak Book) Carl H. Klaus
University Of Iowa Press, 2000
My Vegetable Love offers a detailed daily record of gardening, loving, and living during a single growing season-from the first outdoor planting in early spring to the final fall harvest shortly after Thanksgiving. Yet Klaus describes far more than the toils and triumphs of tending vegetables, as his observations encompass the day-to-day changes in weather and wildlife as well as the life changes ...
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Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible ... 4 reviews J. Howard Garrett
Gulf Publishing, 1998
Great Book On Organic Gardening
+ This is THE BOOK! + Best Texas vege gardening book!
Howard covers the essentials of Basic Organic Gardening as well as the how to's. I bought the book at Rohde's for about the same price before shipping. If you can't get to Garland; but it here. We just completed our 20'x20' raised bed garden. Our front yard is the lushest greenest yard in the ...
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Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds (A Down-to-Earth ... 6 reviews Marc Rogers
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991
Revive an almost lost heritage! Save Your Non-Hybrid Seeds
+ Saving Money + Great for vegetable gardeners + happy gardener
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Growing Herbs and Vegetables : From Seed to Harvest 1 review Terry Silber, Mark Silber
Knopf, 1999
Growing Herbs and Vegetables from Seed to Harvest
I read this book and I use it as a reference for my job. I am a horticulture Specialist with Lincoln University Cooperative Extension. I received some great tips like cutting the seedlings of onions and scallions in half after three weeks of growth to help them come back stronger. The pictures and ...
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Jerry Baker's Terrific Tomatoes, Sensational Spuds, and Mouth-Watering Melons: 1,274 Super Secrets for ... 3 reviews Jerry Baker
American Master Products, Inc., 2003
Great read
+ Great Read! + Jerry Baker's Terrific Tomatoes et al
Very informative and entertaining. I liked the "down home" stories and practical advise. Growing my own fruits and vegetables is very important in my attempt to establish a more self sufficient lifestyle. This book is a very enjoyable read from start to finish. Finding answers is also quick and ...
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Burpee : The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener : A Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically 15 reviews Karan Davis Cutler, Cavagnarok David, ...
Wiley, 1997
Great overview book
+ New gardeners delight + Great Gardening! + Should be called the Coffee Table Encyclopedia of Gardening + Gardners Dictionary
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Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, ... 5 reviews Carole B. Turner
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998
Just what I needed
+ Very informative and easy to use + my review + A book for saving seeds from your garden.
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Kitchen Harvest: Growing Oragnic Fruit, Vegetables & Herbs in Containers 1 review Susan Berry
Frances Lincoln, 2007
Good Book!
This book is just what I was looking for. It has good tips for organic edible container gardening. The pictures are great and I am inspired to try lots of new things in containers this summer. I'm short on ground space, but I can fill some containers up!
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Guide to Growing Delicious Vegetables Fruits & Herbs (Miracle Gro) 1 review Miracle-Gro
Miracle-Gro, 2005
Right On!!
I usually look in the library to see what books I would like to own. Miracle-Gro Guide to Growing Delicious Vegetables Fruits and Herbs is a book I am going to buy. The pictures are large enough to see what a product will look like. The advice is correct as well. I live in Arizona and these authors ...
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