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Reading is an important part of learning more about gardening. We've curated a list of amazing books that lay a foundation of skill and passion needed for successful plots. Have any other books that you can't live without? Pass them along!
General Gardening
The Allotment Planner: More than 200 ways to transform your plot
by Matthew Appleby and Alys Fowler
The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approac
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by Ben Falk
The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming
by Jean-Martin Fortier
The Edible Garden: How to Have Your Garden and Eat it Too
by Alys Fowler
Garden Anywhere
by Alys Fowler
Farming the Woods: An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing and Medicinals in the Forest
by Ken Mudge and Steve Gabriel
Getting Started: A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms
by Center for EcoLiteracy
The Kitchen Gardens at Heligan: Lost Gardening Principles Rediscovered
by
Tom Petherick and Melanie Eclare
Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Garden Diary: No Dig, Healthy Soil, Fewer Weeds, 2nd Edition
by Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding's Veg Journal: Expert no-dig advice, month by month
by Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding's Veg Journal: Expert no-dig advice, month by month
by Charles Dowding
How To Grow a School Garden: A Complete Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Rachel Pringle & Arden Bucklin- Sporer
The Food Activist Handbook: Big & Small Things You Can Do to Help Provide Fresh, Healthy Food for Your Community
by Ali Berlow
Advanced Gardening
Teaming with Microbes
byJeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis
Botany for Gardeners
by Brian Capon
Planting in a Post-Wild World
by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West
Home Outside
by Julie Moir Messervy
What’s Wrong With My Plant? (and How Do I Fix It?)
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by David Deardorff, Kathryn Wadsworth
Good Bug, Bad Bug
by Jessica Walliser
Sibley Guide to Trees
by David Sibley
Reading the Forested Landscape
by Tom Wessels
The Well-Tended Perennial Garden
by Tracy DiSabato Aust
The Organic Lawn Care Manual
by Paul Tukey
The Backyard Orchardist
by Stella Otto
The Backyard Berry Book
by Stella Otto
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
by Lawrence Newcomb
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast
by Peter Del Tredici
Hands on Gardener: Pruning
by Robert Kourik
The Pruning Book
by Lee Reich
The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible
by Edward Smith
100 Vegetables and Where They Come From
by William Woys Weaver
Hands on Gardener; Seeds and Propagation
by Susan McClure
Well-Clad Windowsills
by Tovah Martin
How Plants Work
by Linda Chalker-Scott
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