Breed
Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Deppe, Carol, ©2000, Chelsea
Green Publishing, A plant breeder with a science degree and avid
gardener all rolled into one, Deppe knows her stuff.. This is a
lighter read than that makes it sound, but it is firmly |
Creative
Propagation; A Grower’s Guide, Thompson, Peter, ©1989,
Timber Press, Not nearly as exhaustive as other books presented
here, but if you are short on change and can only get one book
this one has a lot to recommend it. Thompson covers all of |
Designing
and Maintaining your Edible Landscape Naturally, Kourick,
Robert © 1986, Metamorphic Press, Santa Rosa, CA Probably the
bible for this kind of garden. I own a first printing and a quick
check shows that Amazon has it new for $33.46 (Permanent
Publications; March 30, 2005), so it’s still a winner, after all
these years. |
Designing
The New Kitchen Garden, An American Potager Handbook, Bartley,
Jennifer © 2006, Timber Press, Portland, OR This is the book
used to compile a good deal of my |
Dirt,
The Erosion of Civilizations, Montgomery, David ©2007,
University of California Press Although this has been out for a
few years, I never looked at it, in part |
From Cows to
Concrete: The Rise and Fall of Farming in Los Angeles Hardcover,
Surls/Gerber ©2016
Angel City Press For LA Gardeners who love history, this book is
full of delicious photos tracing the agricultural history of Los
Angeles. It is fascinating to see this
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Gardening for Geeks: DIY Tests, Gadgets, and Techniques That Utilize Microbiology, Mathematics, and Ecology to Exponentially Maximize the Yield of Your Garden Christy Wilhelmi © 2013, Adams Media Christy lives up the hill from the Learning Garden and is a frequent guest here. If you have to buy another book after mine, this should be it. She is smart and has written a very good book digging into the science as well as the garden. |
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Heirloom
Vegetable Gardening, Weaver, William Woys, ©1997, New York,
NY Very few pictures, but the descriptions |
How
to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less
Land Than You |
Kitchen
Literacy, Vileisis, Ann, ©2008 Island Press, Along the lines
of the Pollan books, Vileisis brings us back to the knowledge
every cook had in |
Out
of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of the Soil, Hillel,
Daniel, © 1992, University of California Press, There has been a
recent spate of books on soil in the past ten years. Preceding
this glut by almost ten years, Hillel wrote the best of the lot -
all the others are second rate. Not to say they don't have a
story to tell, but Hillel's book is not only science, but |
Save
Three Lives: A Plan For Famine Prevention,
Rodale, Robert © 1991 Random House Not a gardening book at all,
but certainly a look at how we grow our food, in the face of all
the chemical and genetic manipulation promises, can be successful
by working with nature instead of trying to be smarter than nature
and showing up on the short end of the stick. |
Sunset
Western Garden Guide 8 |
Teaming
with Microbes: The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web,
Revised Edition Lowenfels, Jeff et al, 2006 Timber Press; Look up
all the titles in the Timber Press catalog – one of |
The
Garden of Invention, Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding
Plants, Smith, Jane R. © 2009 The Penquin Press, Luther
Burbank is one of my heroes – all the more because he was
considered a bit messy in his record keeping. We owe a huge debt
to Burbank from his iconic Burbank Potato to all the Santa Rosa
plums and million other plants in between. What a |
The
Grafter’s Handbook, 6 |
The
Home Orchard, University of California Press, ©2007, Though
not really a propagation book, it has a marvelous discussion of
grafting and is a one of the many really remarkable horticulture
books coming out of UC’s ANR. If you are into fruit trees, this
book belongs on your shelf in a handy spot. |
The
Kitchen Garden, Thompson,
Sylvia © 1995 Bantam Books and her Kitchen Garden Cookbook are
both delightful and informative. Out of print, they are available
none-the-less from used book dealers and are worth tracking down. |
The Lost Language of
Plants, Buhner, Stephen Harrod, ©2002 Chelsea Green
Publishing Getting well should not get the earth sick. This is the
ecological ‘why’ of alternative medicine and living in harmony
with nature, but be warned, you will never look at a fashionable
layer of mascara the same way again either! |
The
New Seed Starter’s Handbook, Bubel, Nancy, ©1988, Rodale
Press If you want to grow from seed, this is THE authoritative
text on the subject. None better, even if it’s getting a little
old. I found mine for $3 or so on a throwaway shelf at Borders. It
is the best three bucks I’ve ever spent.
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The
Resilient Gardener, Deppe,
Carol, © 2010, Chelsea Green Publishing This is the book by
Deppe that caused me to declare, “If I ever meet Carol Deppe, I
will buy her a drink of whatever she's |
The
Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener,
Gershuny/Martin, © 1992 Rodale Books There is no other book
that approaches this book in simplifying and organizing the
process of composting for any skill level. From beginner on up,
you will find this answers your questions and informs in easy to
understand text with line drawings.
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The
Story of Corn, Fussell,
Betty, © 1992 North Point Press Not a garden book at all but
just try it out and it will hook you with the fascination of corn.
This American crop has saved almost every part of the world from
starvation at one time or another. That this |
The
Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, |
Tree Crops, A Permanent
Agriculture, J. Russel Smith © 1987, Island Press (Note:
this book is available as a print on demand from other sources,
but evidently the quality is not so great – this is a book that
is not, of itself, light reading, please get an edition that is
readable.) I remember reading this in the mid 1990's and being
unable to sleep at night because of the stimulation of my thinking
apparatus. I found it exciting and it immediately changed my
understanding of our world!
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12 May, 2017
A More or Less Comprehensive Bibliography
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