Garden Book Recommendations

We are pleased to bring you these recommendations for gardening books.

Whether it's planning your garden or discovering a gem of a fact, gardening books have long been a passion of many gardeners. Maybe it is inspiration or just looking at pictures of what could be in the coming spring when looking out the window all you can see is ice and snow.

As we discover new books that delight us we will be sure to share our recommendations. If you have one you think ought to belong on our list then by all means let us know.

Check back often as we continually update the books category with new offerings and new subcategories to satisfy the bookworm in all of us.

Starting With Soil

Canning and Preserving

Garden Kitchen Cookbooks

Cooking with Pressure Cookers

Herb Gardens

Gardening With Kids

 


Starting With Soil

Building up your soil is the first place to start when thinking about creating a garden. We recommend the following titles to get better aquainted with the surprisingly complex and thriving underground world of soil and soil composition.

 

 



Ending With Harvest - Canning and Preserving

You've worked all year for the bounty you have collected and now you need to do something before it goes bad. Preserving is an old friend of the gardener. Our Canning and Preserving Expert recommends these titles:

 



Garden Kitchen Cookbooks

Cooking seems to go hand in hand with gardening for many folks. The joy of raising fresh produce and herbs leads into the joy of making use of all that hard labor in the garden. For those of you like us who enjoy cooking we offer these fabulous selections:

 

 



Pressure Cooking

These books all come highly recommendedif you intend to get involved with pressure cooking:

 



Herb Gardens

Herb gardens are often a first garden and once hooked on the scent and delight they provide it is rare that a gardener ever go back to not maintaining a planting of their favorite herbs. These books are all great resources for the herb gardener:

 

 



Gardening With Kids

If you have children then you kow it isn't always easy to offer them instruction or give them reason to get excited to be in the garden. Aside from the easy radish experiments often gardening is lost on children except for harvest time. We find these titles exceptional books for bringing the wonder of gardening to those who are so ready to be amazed - our children: