Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long46 reviews
Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch

Chelsea Green, 1999

Useful book

+ New take on gardening
+ Great insight for winter gardening
+ Very usefull
  
  











  



  
The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book5 reviews
Ruth Stout, Richard Clemence

Rodale Pr, 1971

GREAT BOOK - GREAT AUTHOR

+ Ruth's a HOOT
+ Incredible book
+ Gardening Book
+ Nowork gardening, easy reading, lots of information!
  
  











  



  
Gardening in Your Greenhouse (Greenhouse Basics , No 2)3 reviews
Mark Freeman

Stackpole Books, 1998

First and only reference needed

+ Greenhouse Basics
+ Good Content/Very Helpful

Okay, I am new to gardening. If I want to learn about something new, I read a bunch of books on the subject before I begin. So after reading over a dozen books on vegetables, herbs, gardening, seed saving and botany, I got Mark Freeman's "Gardening in your Greenhouse." It answered all the ...
  
  











  



  
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening33 reviews
Louise Riotte

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998

Better Gardening

+ Companion planting
+ Carrots Love Tomatoes
+ Carrots Love Tomatoes
+ Plant Away
  
  











  



  
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)34 reviews
Steve Solomon

New Society Publishers, 2006

Things I Never Knew About Gardening!

+ Good book, very detailed
+ Detailed, Valuable Advice
+ Fascinating crankiness
  
  











  



  
PERMACULTURE: A Designers' Manual17 reviews
Bill Mollison, Reny Mia Slay

Tagari Publications, 1997

There is nothing better regarding Sustainability

+ The classic
+ Amazing book!
+ Ignore the Cost
+ The Most Important Textbook in the World...
  
  











  



  
Northeast Gardener's Year1 review
Lee Reich

Da Capo Press, 1993

great book

I borrowed this book from the library and my husband and I loved it so much we had to buy it. Lots of great information and a sense of humor to boot.
  
  











  



  
The Scythe Book: Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains, With Hand Tools6 reviews
David Tresemer

Alan C Hood & Co, 1996

A masters notes.

+ The Amish are modern
+ How to Be a Human Weed Whacker
+ more historical reference than how to manual
  
  











  



  
Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden8 reviews
Rhonda Massingham Hart

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2005

Information laden and downright funny

+ Good Read.
+ Very Useful reference to coping with deer problems.
+ The best book on the topic
+ The bible of deer resistant gardening
  
  











  



  
Bug, Slugs, & Other Thugs: Controlling Garden Pests Organically (Down-To-Earth Book)1 review
Rhonda Massingham Hart

Storey Publishing, LLC, 1991

Bugs, slugs, and other thugs. By Rhonda Massingham Hart

I picked this book up some time ago, and I have to say it has saved me in my garden endeavors on more than one occasion. Simply, this book covers every garden pest imaginable. I have never seen a book dedicate almost five pages on how to defend your garden against gophers. She takes an organic ...
  
  











  



  
Simple food for the good life: An alternative cookbook1 review
Helen Nearing

Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 1980

I loved this book

Helen Nearing does not mince words. She tells it like she thinks it, which is part of the beauty of her style. This book will make you thing about the way you eat, and what you feed those you love, so get ready to have some assumptions challenged. I have used some of the recipes in this text, ...
  
  











  



  
How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought ...28 reviews
John Jeavons

Ten Speed Press, 2002

Not a book for "casual backyard gardening"

+ the best gardening book
+ Planned my Fall/Winter Garden With It

The people who are disappointed with this book are the ones who bought it without understanding what it was. This book isn't a "gardening for the soul" book of fluff, nor is it a typical "how to get bigger tomatoes" text. What this book is is a compendium of information on growing as much food ...
  
  











  



  
The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A ...17 reviews
Eliot Coleman

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1995

simply down to earth - literally

+ Lots of new ideas!
+ Amazing Book... A must have for organic gardening
+ Wooo...
+ My new constant companion
  
  











  



  
The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook For Britain & Other Temperate Climates2 reviews
Patrick Whitefield

Permanent Publications, 2005

Great textbook on Permaculture

+ Wonderful Resource!

I've only had a chance to glance through this and read snippets, but I'm very impressed. A lot of information well organized; it's like a textbook for a college level Permaculture course. Seems comparable to, but easier to understand and apply, than Mollison's Permaculture Design ...
  
  











  



  
Weeds: Guardians of the Soil5 reviews
Joseph A Cocannouer

Devin-Adair Pub, 1980

Joyce Burditt did not write this book!

+ Available online for Free
+ A True Gardening Classic
+ Best book on weeds
+ Correct author is Joseph Cocannouer
  
  











  



  
Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention: A Gardener's Guide3 reviews
Lee Reich

Perseus Books, 1991

A taste teaser! I want to get these plants!

+ Amazing Discovery
+ Really expanded my ideas of what to plant

This book is, first of all, a wonderful read. It is full of historical notes, very interesting to this nonbotonist, and is fully researched. Advances have been made since it was written, and perhaps some of the suppliers given in the back are no longer with us; but a good web search will ...
  
  











  



  
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener6 reviews
John Seymour

DK ADULT, 2008

A Gardening CLASSIC, updated

+ Only gardening book I'll ever need
+ Everyone should consider...
+ Another great book by John Seymour
+ The New Self-sufficient Gardener
  
  











  



  
The Backyard Berry Book: A Hands-On Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden13 reviews
Stella Otto

Ottographics, 1995

Excellent Book

+ Great Berry Info for the Home Gardener
+ Very helpful and comprehensive.
+ The Backyard Berry Book: A Hands-On Guide to Growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden
  
  











  



  
Earth Manual: How to Work on Wild Land Without Taming It2 reviews
Malcolm Margolin

Heyday Books, 1995

A fulfilling guide to almost anything you need to know

+ Full of need to know outdoor ideas

If you are an Earth-goer that enjoys nature, this is a must have. This book will tell you everything from rehydrating wetlands to sprouting wild seeds, like acorns and pine cones. It will also inform of some of the DOs and DON'Ts of nature. In one segment the author, Margolin, states that you ...
  
  











  



  
Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)6 reviews
Dave Jacke, Eric Toensmeier

Chelsea Green, 2005

Excellent for anyone hoping to get a handle on sustainable agriculture

+ Great mix of theory and practical! Very thorough!
+ Thorough, thorough, thorough
+ These two books could keep you busy for quite some time...
+ PermaCulture for Temp. climates!!