Four-Season Harvest:
Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
Eliot Coleman
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1999
 
“If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.” (amazon.com)



McGee and Stuckey’s Bountiful Container:
Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers

Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey
Workman Publishing, 2002

"McGee (Basic Herb Cookery) and veteran gardening writer Stuckey (Gardening from the Ground Up) share their expertise and experience in the art of container gardening. Armed with this manual, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their passion for growing edible things. If there is an available balcony, porch, front or back steps, according to the authors, growing produce in containers can be easy and rewarding. With some limitations, it is even possible to grow foods in a window box or on an indoor windowsill. This compendium of practical advice includes detailed information on the types of containers to use, equipment needed, the right soil, when to plant which seeds and how best to deal with problems such as too much or too little sunlight. They also explain more sophisticated techniques like succession planting, whereby ongoing seasonal planting takes place in the same container. This can yield a harvest of peas in early summer, tomatoes in late summer to early fall and kale that will grow into winter. Included are mouth-watering recipes for harvested container crops. Written for the beginner as well as for those with a background in gardening, McGee and Stuckey's directions are comprehensive, clearly written and frequently inspiring." (Publishers Weekly)


Rodale’s Garden Problem Solver: Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs
Jeff Ball
Rodale Books, 1995 (reissue)
 
"This volume deals with frequently encountered insect and disease problems of popular vegetables, herbs, and fruits (ornamentals excluded). Information is clear, sufficient, and organized conveniently. This book is one in a long series that includes Organic Plant Protection (1976), Rodale's Color Handbook of Garden Insects (1983), and Encyclopedia of Natural Insect and Disease Control (1984). These titles differ in scope, arrangement, or nuance, but increased knowledge in the past 12 years is not such to require small-to-medium sized libraries to buy each new book. Cynthia Westcott's Gardener's Bug Book (Doubleday, 1973) and Plant Disease Handbook (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1979. 4th ed.) are more comprehensive and scientific, with no ideological bias."  (Library Journal)

 
Square Foot Gardening
A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work And All New Square Foot Gardening (2006)
Mel Bartholomew
Rodale Books, 2005 (reissue)
 
One of the bestselling garden books ever is fresher than ever! Ready to inspire a whole new generation of gardeners.When he created the "square foot gardening" method, Mel Bartholomew, a retired engineer and efficiency expert, found the solution to the frustrations of most gardeners. His revolutionary system is simple: it's an ingenious planting method based on using square foot blocks of garden space instead of rows. Gardeners build up, not down, so there's no digging and no tilling after the first year. And the method requires less thinning, less weeding, and less watering."I found a better way to garden, one that's more efficient, more manageable, and requires less work," Bartholomew explains. Not surprisingly, his method quickly received worldwide recognition and has been written up in every major newspaper and gardening magazine. His book, which served as the companion to the nationally acclaimed television series, has sold over 800,000 copies. Now freshened with new illustrations, the book Ingram calls "the largest selling garden book in America" is reissued for the delight of a whole new generation of gardeners."   (Library Journal)
 

Southern Herb Growing
Madelyn Hill, Gwen Barclay, Jean Hardy
Shearer Publishing 1997

A favorite of PMG members who love to dabble in herbs!


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