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| All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space!
by Mr. Mel Bartholomew
Amazon Price: $11.69
Used Price: $9.29
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 5):
The All New Square Foot Gardening book is well done with excellent pictures. For most people, finding a source of the right kind of vermiculite is difficult. Try feed stores. We found one near us that had large bags of coarse vermiculite at a reasonable price. They ordered 4 bags for us.
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| Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible
by Jorge Cervantes
Amazon Price: $19.77
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Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
Best carry along pictorial for cultivators and those learning to grow medicine to treat their ailments. Color coded pages make locating topics easy,
The organization of content is perfect.
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| The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
Amazon Price: $12.89
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 5):
This is a great book for someone just thinking about utilizing their land for food. It will motivate you, educate you on the basics of where to start, how to plan, what to expect and how to plan long term. It covers a great deal of material considering the size of the book. Well-written, inspiring many opportunities.
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| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver
Amazon Price: $10.87
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 5):
Initially I read this book because it was written by Barbara Kingsolver. I have read her fiction and like her style of writing. I found that I really enjoyed reading this non-fiction book and felt that it was extremely helpful for people who are trying to 'live off the land' in a healthy, ecological manner. I liked the input of the three authors - each in their different areas. An uplifting book.
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| The Vegetable Gardener's Bible (10th Anniversary Edition)
Amazon Price: $16.47
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Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
Wow, this book is so informative and well written. The book is large with well formated pages. The type is large and the pages are almost like a well written picture filled texted book. Makes it so easy to read and learn.
This book has absolutely everything you need to know about growning any type of vegetable in any type of climate. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get the most out of their garden and learn the best techniques, or anyone who would like to know how to make the very first steps to creating a successful garden. He even has a chapter on composting and how to use it in the garden, something everyone in america should do that has the space.
This book has more than enough information so that this should be the only book any vegetable gardner should need!
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| Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Spaces
by Gayla Trail
Amazon Price: $13.59
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Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
I bought this book before because I am teaching gardening to a group of fifth graders whose only options to grow plants are in pots or public/abandoned lots. The book shows a bunch of inventive ways to use containers that these kids have at home, some which are more obvious like plastic recyclable containers and soup cans, but other such as paper board toilet roll which I had never thought of before. The book also talks about spacing, growing plants together, and how prevent disease and insect infiltration in a manner that is organic, which besides its obvious health benefits, is not as cost prohibitive for the kids. The book also has brilliant color photographs which provide good examples.
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| The Encyclopedia of Country Living
by Carla Emery
Amazon Price: $19.77
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Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
This is quite possibly the best reference book I have ever bought. It starts by giving you very detailed instructions on how to conduct research, get the proper surveys done, and, eventually, buy a home out in the country. It is very detailed and makes you aware of the intricacies of living out in the country, or off of the land itself. I would recommend it for anyone who is even considering moving out of the cities and/or suburbs. It is worth every penny, even if you decide not to make the move. The instructions on planting, gardening, and preserving the foods that you raise yourself are detailed, with a plethora of additional resources, both online and offline, to make sure you are well-informed. Also, it tells you how to locate groups that do these things and learn from them. An excellent book! I o...
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| Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
by Louise Riotte
Amazon Price: $9.72
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Review (rating: 5):
Will be planting my first garden this year. This book is an excellent guide for the clueless or the experienced gardener. Quick, easy to read and reference as each vegetable and herb has a paragraph devoted to it. Also diagrams of suggested garden layouts for the best results.
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| The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organ...
by Eliot Coleman
Amazon Price: $19.77
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Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Review (rating: 5):
Read a lot of reviews on this book prior to purchasing it. Eliot Coleman spells out the difference between "growing season" and "harvest season" building on the idea that, with a certain amount of protection, cool season crops can be harvested almost all year round. I was somewhat dubious since the area where I live (northern Idaho) often has 30 or more days of cloud cover during the winter months. Several people commented that his system works best in situations where the storms come and go with periods of sunlight between storms. Still, I decided to give his system a try. I did not have the ability to make a greenhouse (coldhouse) this year but did make three poly tunnels. For my own information I purchased a remote temperature sensor so I could compare the temperature inside and outside the p...
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| The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
Amazon Price: $10.88
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Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Review (rating: 4):
First of all, if you have never read any of Michael Pollan's books, you are missing out. I would suggest reading The Omnivore's Dilemma first, but this book is very good also. It is a look at how instead of us conquering and "domesticating" four kinds of plants, they have in fact figured out how to use us to propagate their species. The section on apples is my favorite because it seems like this plant completely reinvented itself just so we would enjoy it and spread it around.
I have only two problems with this book. First, the section on marijuana is a little scattered as Pollan begins to describe what the plant does to our mind, then descends into a rambling discussion on the importance of forgetting and the meaning of wonder. Not necessarily bad writing, but not really focused on plants, either.
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