Gardening & Horticulture Books

Three hundred and sixty-eight pages, no pretty pictures, and it's about food? Yes it is, and it's fascinating. Written by best-selling novelist Barbara Kingsolver, her scientist hubby and teenage daughter, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" chronicles...
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I purchased this book after hearing a review of it on Radio 4. I have to admit one of the reviewers did find it somewhat 'pompous' and I have to agree. The family return to an old farm, previiously purchase by Dad when he was single. thereupon...
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This book is part college course, part how to manual and part family scrapbook. Kingsolver and her family moved across the country from Tucson to Appalachia to get back to her roots and to the farm that her husband had bought years before with...
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This book is full of wonderful tips and instructions on raising fruits and vegatables organically and how to best improve the soil. I use this book so much as a reference in the garden that it is covered with soil and the pages are wrinkled from...
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The author likes to tell stories and reminisce. There is good and helpful information in this book. But I was often frustrated while trying to find it.If this book was half of it's length (cutting out all of the non- technical info)I would find...
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Eliot Coleman's fine book has given rise to a gentle whisper deep in my thoughts. That whisper says, "Fresh veggies - in the winter! And it's not even difficult..." I find myself daydreaming about winter gardening, planting winter crops in my...
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I started my first square foot garden last year with the help of Mel's original book. I made raised bed boxes using information from his website and loved the results. I was so excited about his new book that I pre-ordered and counted...
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i appreciated the author's gardening experience and am looking forward to trying the method. however, it was tough to wade through his self congratulatory tone and repetitive self praise for developing the concept. i found the charts very useful...
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good information thats well laid out in an easy-to-read format. the author sounds a little too cocky though and basicaly calls the reader an idiot for ever wasting their time gardening in the traditional manner and makes no qualms about restating...
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I had checked out the book first from the library and now I am buying it because it is such a good reference book for organic gardening. It is a great "how to" book for beginners or for anyone who wants to solve pest problems without all the...
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I was looking for how to build a root celler. Several Ideas were presented, along with what can be stored, how to store it and how long it could likely be stored. I first saw this book as a loan from another library. Now I want to get one to...
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The New Organic Grower and Eliot Coleman's Four Season Harvest are two of the absolute best books ever written on the sunject of cold-climate market gardening. For the latest on Coleman's ingenious techniques, check out his newest publication:...
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Buy this book --- it's the real deal --- It's the 25 year-old-version updated beautifully. (I had the old one, but lost it along the way) All the fine line drawing are here, plus many colored faux wood-block illustrations.
Contents are as...
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I was disapointed by this book. The book is written totally from the context of living in England. The author is a very poor communicator, he reminds me of an intellectual trying to explain how to farm with poetry and quotes from his vast...
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I am really disappointed with the content of this book. It has beautiful glossy pictures, and a great deal on gardening and livestock - but skips important topics entirely. For gardening, this is the least valuable book that I have ever...
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This is a delightful book of recipes, tips, and antecdotes. As an extract brewer, the book meets my needs perfectly. The recipes are varied and wide ranging, from classic recipes to historic and seasonal brews.
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What started out as a pleasant experience became a bit of a let down. The foreword by Charlie Papazian gets you all geared up. The book reads well although some of the tips are questionable. The book is definitely more for the extract brewer. Some...
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The book is well laid out and contains a good number of recipes of extract based homebrews. The only major complain is that as an allgrain brewer, there are only a few recipes which can interest me.
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To cover 1001 Gardens in 960 pages is an almost impossible mission, yet Rae Spencer-Jones and his 70 contributors accomplished it.

Every garden listed in "1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die" follows a standard listing format of...
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For garden-lovers a 1,000 page book crammed chockfull with gardens the world over is an enticing prospect - though the suggestion you must all see them before you die is a bit fanciful, and symptomatic of the depersonalized, random consumerism of...
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Nice compilation of photos and word summaries of prominent and fairly unknown gardens from across the world. Might be a fun trek to try to see as many of these as you can, however, I doubt you'd get through all of them due to their locations all...
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