Someone should ask this question once a year
Usually once a year someone asks the community what there favorite gardening book is. I'm grateful for this question, since many of you introduced me to John Seymore last year.
For me, the most useful gardening book I ever read, and one that I still follow, was the 1985 edition of John Jeavons "How to grow more vegetables..." I'm starting over with a new garden, and I finally have enough compost to follow his initial recommendation for fertilizing a first time double dug bed. That is, a yard of compost, 100 pounds of aged manure ten pounds of greensand, ten pounds of rock phosphate, a pound each of dried kelp, black wood ashes and bone meal. Its a lot of effort, but it sure does work.
So what is your favorite gardening book?
For me, the most useful gardening book I ever read, and one that I still follow, was the 1985 edition of John Jeavons "How to grow more vegetables..." I'm starting over with a new garden, and I finally have enough compost to follow his initial recommendation for fertilizing a first time double dug bed. That is, a yard of compost, 100 pounds of aged manure ten pounds of greensand, ten pounds of rock phosphate, a pound each of dried kelp, black wood ashes and bone meal. Its a lot of effort, but it sure does work.
So what is your favorite gardening book?