books about: horticulture     books:     Horticulture      Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy Seed Savers Exchange, 2002 Very Great Book This book is a perfect reference for anyone interested in seed saving from vegetables. I purchased this book not knowing a single thing about seed saving and have learned heaps of useful knowledge from it. This is truly THE essential book for seed saving, but the ...             Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch Chelsea Green, 1999 Not A Waste Of Money I've been familiar with Eliot Coleman's work for a few years now. I found an interesting article in Mother Earth News, 2004, regarding his daughter, Clara, and her attempts at gardening in the winter. It peaked my curiosity, so I saved the article. I have yet to get ...             All New Square Foot Gardening Mel Bartholomew Cool Springs Press, 2006 An excellent alternative to row gardening. While I have not yet tried the methods of gardening in this book, I have to say that it makes sense. It is an easy way to set up a garden so that it is less work. I do wonder about larger plants like cabbages and zucchini plants that like to spread out, but I have to ...             Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) Steve Solomon New Society Publishers, 2006 Detailed, Valuable Advice Gardening When It Counts is truly a book for our times. There's already a well-deserved buzz about this book among home gardeners I know. For one thing, it firmly refutes the supposed advantages of mulch gardening. In the burgeoning nationwide return to growing our own ...             The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to ... Rodale Books, 1996 Excellent reference for "natural" pest control! Living in the tropics, I have had frequent failures starting up my organic garden due to pests taking it over. This year I have used some tips and "natural pesticide" recipies from this book with great success. It has also helped me identify "good" versus "bad" ...             The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening ... Edward C. Smith Storey Publishing, LLC, 2000 must-have gardening book This is a must-have book if you garden; it is easy to find information, very well organized, and the explanations and directions are clear. The second half of the book has detailed information on most vegetables including what plants are best to plant before and next ...             Western Garden Book (Sunset Western Garden Book) Sunset Books, 2007 Best ever Sunset Western Garden Book issue I have relied on Sunset's Western Garden Book, in its various issues, for many years. From time to time, about every 3-4 years or so, they re-publish it. This particular issue has become my favorite "Working Bible" and I keep one copy in the house for reference and ...             Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible Jorge Cervantes Van Patten Publishing, 2006 Great Book. Very highly recommended! New grower/older grower freindly! I love this book. I was very surprised this book is so in depth and awesome. I have grown before, but there is info that I never imagined that would be in a Marijuana horticulture book. It's perfect for anyone. VERY New grower friendly, It's great knowledge for the ...             The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World Michael Pollan Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002 The best In style and substance this is one of the best books I've read in recent years, as well as one of the most enjoyable. It also broadened my perspective in several areas. I highly recommend.             The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants Samuel Thayer Forager's Harvest Press, 2006 It fills the void! This book is unique in that it fills a big void in the other wild edible books out there. This void is filled mainly by the chapters entitled "Harvest and Preparation Methods for Wild Plant Foods" and "Storing Wild Foods". Thayer wrote this book with his experience and ...             How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever ... John Jeavons Ten Speed Press, 2006 the best gardening book In my honest opinion, this is the best how to garden book out there. Probably not for beginners, but for those who want more. It debunks the normal vegetable spacing on the seed packets, so you can get more that you can imagine......             The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit Amy Goldman Bloomsbury USA, 2008 For heirloom tomato lovers This book is all that it claims. For those wanting to grow heirloom tomatoes, it can be confusing as to which have the attributes one is seeking (sweet taste, good for sauce, good for munching, etc.) This book takes the mystery out of heirloom tomatoes with great ...             Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides) Stu Campbell Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998 Creating the best garden ever starts at the bottom Composting, in case you aren't terribly familiar with it yet, is simply the practice of allowing waste matter to rot and decompose until it's fit to be tilled right into the soil. However, while the basic concept is as old as mother nature and often very easy to ...             The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A ... Eliot Coleman Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1995 simply down to earth - literally This is absolutely the best, straightforward, down to earth, organic gardening book I have ever read. No hype, no buzzwords, no new age crap, no agenda. Simply down to earth - literally.             Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture Toby Hemenway Chelsea Green, 2001 permaculture in your own yard This was recommended by someone when I started asking questions about permaculture. I am glad he did! It is a great introduction without being too simplistic. It is showing me how to start small and gradually increase the use of permaculture. I have shown it to ...          products you might be interested in search for books down-to-earth, four-season, horticulture, identifying, permaculture, problem-solving      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World