Gardening Books

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver, along with her husband and elder daughter, has written a memoir about their year dedicated to eating only food they grew on their small farm in Virginia. After relocating cross-country from their home in Tucson, the family began their year as locovores with fresh asparagus planted years earlier. Month by month, Kingsolver shares plantings, harvests, and insights. A small essay and recipes by her daughter Camille end of each chapter. Lily, the younger daughter, contributed with a well-tended flock of chickens. Throughout the book, Kingsolver's husband, Steven L. Hopp, shares information about everything from factory farming to fossil fuel.

Hardcover / Good $3.63

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How to make a memorable garden in a small space, and do it with a minimum of the backbreaking labor usually associated with a really superior garden: that's the author's message, which he presents on his PBS series and distills in this useful book--a perennial best-seller.

Paperback / NEW $11.66

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An age-old gardening practice is brought back to life in this useful book that makes life easier for the gardener and produces topnotch results.

Hardcover / Very Good $9.00

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Written by the founder of the Maple Society, J. D. Vertrees, this classic work is packed with vital information about growing Japanese maples (Acer palmatum) and their cultivars. It also provides information on their history, their uses in Japan, and the importance of these trees in Japanese life and culture.

Hardcover / Very Good $16.00

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All the classic methods of formal plant shaping, with clear, practical and fanciful techniques to use indoors or out.

Paperback / Used, Very Good $1.00

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Longtime gardening authority Eliot Coleman shares his secrets of organic farming for the commercial farmer as well as the serious extra-curricular gardener. Coleman has distinguished himself by his mellow, user-friendly approach to gardening, and believes in working with the conditions as they actually are rather than pursuing unnatural or complicated means to stimulate optimal growth. Ever the resourceful gardener who eschews spending too much, Coleman discusses in plain terms the easiest and best methods of raising successful organic crops, the most efficient machinery for the dollar (and which contraptions are a complete waste of money), and how to economize to ensure the farm's long-term stability. He guides the reader through all stages of raising crops: tillage, seeding, fertilizing, weeding, and harvesting. And he includes the other aspects of running an agriculture business, such as marketing, management, and hiring practices. A final section introduces the author's sub-specialty: winter gardening, the subject of his other popular book FOUR-SEASON HARVEST.

Paperback / New $18.71

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