decades of knowledge right on your shelves... As an admitted book collector, one of my ever-growing libraries is my gardener's reference collection. Now splaying onto a third shelf, these books are my go-to guides for everything gardening. The latest addition will have to be Helen and Scott Nearing's The Maple Sugar Book. We recently borrowed this book from the library and opened the cover to find that not only was this book first checked out before I was even born, but that it was signed by the Nearings themselves in blue ball point pen. How cool is that? Though, we will have to return this particular book, we found enough great info in it to add it to our reference must-haves. So I will definitely be on the hunt for a copy at the next library book sale.
Some of our favorite gardening reference books are the ones written in the 1930s-60s. They made do with the simplest of inventions made of the most practical materials. So much of it can still be applied today with great success.
The books listed here would be great additions to every gardener's bookshelf:
Best Ideas for Organic Vegetable Growing by the editors of Organic Gardening
The Basic Book of Organic Gardening from Rodale Press
Rodale's All New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening (companion book to PBS's Your Organic Garden)
Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte
Root Cellaring by Mike and Nancy Bubel
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live it by John Seymour
Four Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from your Home Garden all Year Long by Eliot Coleman
2 comments:
It's amazing what you can find at your local library. Last year our library gave away all of it's unwanted books on a weekly basis. We built up quite a collection. Thanks for the tips of the gardening books. They look great!
As a bookbuff and gardener this was a most enjoyable post to read! xx
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