Someone should ask this question once a year

[eqfe]

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

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[singeaddams]

I don't have one, sadly. I admit to buying gardening magazines for the odd tip and the garden-porn factor but I don't have a single gardening book.

[rhiannon_s]

I'm afraid mine is the dreadfully simply and basic "The Wildlife Garden Month-by-Month" by Jackie Bennett.
http ://www.amazon.co.uk/Wildlife-Garden-Month-month/dp/0715305735

[ersatz_read]

I'm very fond of "How to Grow More Vegetables...", but it's something I aspire to rather than ever actually achieve. Partly this is me, and partly it's that I don't have the benefit of a California climate.

For basic vegetable garden info, I seem to keep going back to Rodale's "Growing Fruits & Vegetables Organically". My copy is from 1994; I picked it up used.

[ersatz_read]

And I always keep a copy of Johnny's Select Seeds catalog on hand. They're not the first place I order from, but I order enough to stay on their mailing list. It's a treasure trove of plant/maintenance/harvest information.

[dark_phoenix54]

This, for veggies. For perennials, 'Perennial Gardens: Color harmonies through the seasons' by Cox. Anything by Christopher Lloyd.

I have stacks of gardening books, and all are good for different things. Hard to say one is the absolute best. I can't even pick a best rose book because they all emphasize different aspects and leave something out.

[eqfe]

I gardened in NJ for 35 years, and now I'm in MD.

I have severaleditions of Growning Fruits and Vegetables Organically, and it really is a great reference work.

[miraje]

[virginiadear]

*Love* Markham's "Mini-Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4-Acre." A friend gave me a copy just because "You'll need this." I'm more than a bit shy of the 1/4-acre, but I'm also loving everything I've read by Eliot Coleman, and Jeavons's "How to Grow More Vegetables [etc]" is on my wish-list.

[chevyanna]

"Sunset Western Garden Book" for anyone west of the Rockies, especially the Pacific Coast. I micro climate garden/landscape on my sloped acreage as a few degree difference in temperature can kill.