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100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden
Price $29.57
Written by Carolyn J. Male, 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden tells all there is to know about the origins of the tomato, selecting the perfect heirloom variety, saving the seeds, the perfect growing conditions for heirloom tomatoes and includes a field guide for 100 varieties of heirloom tomatoes.
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Secrets to Great Soil Building
Price $21.69
With the first entry in the index being Acacias, and the last being Zucchini, Secrets to Great Soil, by Elizabeth Stell has a little bit about just about everything having to do with soil; literally, from A to Z. Just one of the must-have volumes in Storey’s Gardening Skills Illustrated, Secrets to Great Soil starts at the beginning, with how soil is formed, and then walks you through, in a no-nonsense way, the most practical and practiced ways to improve your soil, provide the proper nutrients to specific plants, incorporate organic matter…you name it; she even has a chapter on what tools to use for what jobs. This well-written, technical guide to great soil is fully illustrated with 300 detailed color drawings.
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The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible
Price $24.95
Ed Smith has managed to take the mystery out of gardening with the 10th Anniversary Edition of The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible. Filled to the brim with common-sense directions, ideas and tips about vegetable gardening, even the expert gardener will learn something new. Ed and his family have long years of vegetable growing experience that has been incorporated into 352 pages of easy-reading and plain talk about what works and what doesn’t.
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Homegrown Herbs
Price $19.95
Homegrown Herbs: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using & Enjoying More Than 100 Herbs is a step-by-step tome designed for every gardener, from novice to expert. If you have ever cringed at the ridiculously high costs for jarred, canned or fresh herbs, this book may be for you. Including everything you need to know, from seed selection to growing to harvesting and drying, as well as how to use herbs in the kitchen, for your health and in designing home-crafted products, renowned herbalist Tammi Hartung and Saxon Holt, photographer, has brought it all to life. Tammi, with more than 30 years of hands-on experience is a certified organic grower and teacher. Offering full color photographs and illustrations throughout, whether you have never gardened before or are an old hand at it, you will find tons of useful information here.
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Carrots Love Tomatoes
Price $14.95
This amazing book, Carrots Love Tomatoes—Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening, is a great resource guide for learning which plants are beneficial for planting near and around the other fruits, vegetables and ornamentals in your yard. Mixed plantings provide benefits above and beyond the beautiful variety arrayed, but mixed plantings can also be detrimental to certain other plants. Learn just about everything there is to know from this comprehensive guide to companion planting. Written by Louise Riotte, who is also the author of Roses Love Garlic and 11 other books on gardening, animals, farming and the outdoors.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Price $17.39
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life chronicles the year of a real-life family, the Kingsolvers, as they embark on a journey from being vegetarians, to what is termed, locavores—those who eat foods, both meats and vegetables, which are only grown locally, either by themselves or by someone in the area in which they live. Starting out by looking at the amount of fuel that is consumed in transporting foods back and forth across the nation—it is apparent through the wit and anecdotal properties that the journey this family made resulted in far more than reducing their carbon footprint on the world. A truly enjoyable read, this 400 page book makes sense of what some would call the fanaticism of vegetarianism and introduces the pleasure of being a conscientious omnivore.
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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
Price $25.15
Eliot Coleman and Barbara Damrosch teamed up to write Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long. Eliot, loving every single aspect of vegetable gardening, writes in user-friendly terminology with a wry humor that is refreshing and makes light of what he calls “complicated” gardening techniques. He has diligently researched and then put into practice what he preaches. Living in Maine, he drew upon the all-season gardening success of the citizens of the south of France; on a different continent, but on the same 44th parallel. His methods are simple, and they work; if he can grow all year round way up there in Maine, the rest of us should have it a lot easier.
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The Bountiful Container
Price $20.95
The Bountiful Container: Create Container Gardens of Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers book by McGee & Stuckey is an understandable and completely comprehensive guide to the art of container vegetable gardening. No longer must the apartment dweller or those lacking garden space be held captive by the high prices and questionable growing and handling standards in the produce aisle. Armed with this book even the novice gardener can be a successful container gardener. Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey, authors of Basic Herb Cookery and Gardening from the Ground Up, respectively, have combined their knowledge and skills to write what we believe is one of the best container gardening books you will ever find. With only a very few exceptions, like corn and pumpkins, you will be guided on how to plant and grow everything edible imaginable. This guide includes everything you need to know, from how to choose the right container to the type of soil to fertilization.
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The Heirloom Tomato From Garden to Table
Price $35.00
The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table, written by Amy Goldman, goes through the process of growing, picking and cooking over 500 different varieties of heirloom tomatoes. Gorgeously illustrated and photographed, just browsing through this book will make your mouth water for that same remarkable taste you enjoyed as a kid, but can’t get in the grocery store.
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