Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden

One of the nice things about fruits and berries is that you don't have to plant them all over again every year. Another is that they provide Vitamin C and several other important nutrients in horse doctor's doses. There are plenty of other good reasons to get some fruit or nut trees or some berry plants growing in your garden. This book covers every phase of how to do it.

 

Secrets of Plant Propagation

Comprehensive and very detailed. How to get your garden started without the help of a nearby nursery: sowing seeds, dividing plants, grafting, and much more.

 

Grow Your Own Fruits and Vegetables

A standard English handbook of organic gardening methods from one of the modern masters of the art.

 

Save Your Own Seed

Also available in a 1975 English edition, this little pamphlet is a good basic introduction to saving seeds from your own plants for the next season.

 

Growing and Using Herbs Successfully

Detailed and comprehensive, covering growing and preparing 64 important herbs.

 

How To Grow More Vegetables

THE book on biodynamic/French intensive agriculture, which produces the maximum results from the minimum space with effectively zero fossil fuel input. Clearly written and stuffed with critically important info.

 

The Backyard Homestead Mini-Farm & Garden Log Book

Another very useful volume from the folks who popularized biodynamic/French intensive agriculture, full of useful charts and tables.

 

Macmillan Book of Natural Herb Gardening

A decent introductory book on the subject, with basic requirements and hints for a range of herbs.

 

Herb Gardening

Probably the best book on the subject, by the founder of a famous herb farm in England. Covers just about everything you need to know to grow most of the standard European medicinal and culinary herbs.

 

The Apartment Farmer

You live in an apartment, you say, and don't have anywhere to plant a garden? Yes you do. Duane Newcomb, one of the pioneer figures of intensive gardening in America, shows how you can grow dozens of different crops on balconies, south-facing windowsills, and even less likely places.

 

The Postage Stamp Garden Book

One of the first American books on the biodynamic-French intensive gardening method, and still well worth having. Covers all aspects of the method.

 

Small Space, Big Harvest

guide to all aspects of intensive organic gardening on a small plot.

 

The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening

Immense, vastly detailed, and packed with information. Most serious organic gardeners have one of the many reprints and revisions of this 1200-plus page tome weighing down a bookshelf.

 

Shepherd's Purse: Organic Pest Control Handbook

A basic handbook of organic pest control. Includes good color illustrations of common agricultural pests.