Favorite Garden Books

Diane's Garden

Favorite Garden Books

Non-inclusive and highly biased lists

of my favorite gardening books...

listed in no particular order whatsoever

General Gardening Books

Cornucopia

by Stephen Facciola

More information than you can imagine

on more edible plants than you can imagine

Edible Landscaping

by Rosalind Creasy

She makes you believe it is possible

Edible Asian Garden

by Rosalind Creasy

Rosalind Creasy is another author who has written

many great gardening books...

I recommend her heartily.

How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back

by Ruth Stout

Or any other Ruth Stout book!

She was instrumental in molding my gardening attitudes

when I was a teenager

Oriental Vegetables

by Joy Larkcom

More in depth info on Oriental veggies

Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties

by Carol Deppe

I haven't done this - but she makes you want to try!

Southern Herb Growing

by Madeline Hill and Gwen Barclay

Florida Gardening Books

A Cutting Garden for Florida

by Monica Moran Brandies

and Betty Barr Mackey

Herbs and Spices for Florida Gardening

by Monica Moran Brandies

Actually...

I really like ALL

of Monica Moran Brandies' books

Manual of Minor Vegetable

by James M. Stephens

Useful to find out how to grow some

of the less well know veggies here

Growing Exotic Food

by Marion Van Atta

Very personable writer

Garden Related Fiction

The China Bayles Series

by Susan Wittig Albert

Mysteries with an Herbal Theme

Thyme of Death

Witches Bane

Hangman's Root

Rosemary Remembered

Rueful Death

Love Lies Bleeding

Chile Death

Lavender Lies

Mistletoe Man

Bloodroot

Indigo Dying

A Dilly of a Death

An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

Gardening Mysteries by Ann Ripley

Can be a bit gruesome!

Mulch

and all the rest!

And videos... the Brother Cadfael series

which I prefer to the books

(could Derek Jacobi be part of the reason?)

Where to look for the elusive titles:

Best Book Buys site - it searches dozens of bookstores at once

eBay!

Goodwill

Library book sales (I have gotten some stupendous books at these sales)

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Make your own gardening books! If you find great information online... print it out. I am sure I am not the only one who has lost things "saved" to my computer and then couldn't find them again online. Even though I love the internet and all the great info I can find there - there is something about having a hard copy that pleases the paper lover in me.

If a book tells me my only choices are to sterilize my soil with chemical fumigants... poison insects willy nilly... or spray noxious chemicals on diseased plants it will NOT be blessed with a space on my favorites list.

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