Winter Reading Material

Prairie Rose

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Am on the lookout for good gardening books to read this winter while it is cold. Picked up a copy of a raised bed vegetable book: Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet.

Anybody have any favorites to recommend?
 

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i used to update this when i came across something interesting related to gardening, permaculture, food preservation, etc. :) it's not recently updated - when i find a topic i like to go back as far as i can in the literature to follow how the thoughts were developed and changed as more becomes known.

http://www.anthive.com/project/notes/
 

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Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet.

I am curious about that title :), Prairie Rose. John Jeavon's book How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible is a similar title. He was talking about a half acre ... although later editions may have gotten it down to 3 square feet ;). Is that sqft/meal? I'd like to do my garden work with that idea in mind!

The John Jeavons' book and Peter Chan's Better Vegetable Gardens, the Chinese Way, made a big difference in my early gardening experience.

Steve
 

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"Heirloom Vegetable Gardening" by William Woys Weaver. Also "100 vegetables and Where They Came From" by the same author; out of print, but used editions are worth looking for. Both are interesting reading.

"Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties" by Carol Deppe. A good introduction to principles of vegetable breeding & seed saving, written for gardeners.
 

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