Winter Reading Material

[Prairie Rose]

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?

 

[flowerbug]

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/

 

[digitS']

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

 

[Zeedman]

"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.