The Gardener's Bug Book

This is the revised edition of Helen and John Philbrick's The Bug Book, which has been the standby of organic gardeners since 1974. Covers just about everything you need to know to keep bugs at bay without chemical sprays.

The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases

An excellent and detailed guide to fifty-odd commpon plant diseases and what to do about them organically.

The Gardener's Weed Book

The third volume of Ms. Pleasant's "pest trilogy" is just as useful as the other two, with information on identifying and getting rid of 70 common garden weeds.

Growing Herbs

A good basic source of information on growing herbs in the maritime Northwest. Very useful.

Planetary Planting

The most detailed book in print on planting by the signs of the Zodiac. Superstition? Possibly, but many experienced gardeners and farmers swear it improves yields and discourages pests. Try it out for yourself.

Rodale's Chemical Free Yard and Garden

An encyclopedia of organic approaches to soil nutrition, plant diseases, and pest control.

Saving Seeds

By many accounts, the best book there is on saving this year's seeds for next year's garden. Remember, you may not be able to order from a seed company a thousand miles away!

Big Crops from Little Gardens

A forgotten classic, this book shows how to make use of a trick many modern intensive gardeners never learned - planting crops that put out leaves at different vertical levels, produce at different times during the season, and/or have different needs for light, all in the same bed. The author's 'three story garden' includes corn, peas, pole beans, and tomatoes as the main crops, plus twenty-odd other vegetables as ground cover, producing five crops a year.

The Self-Sufficient Gardener

Another fine book on intensive gardening, with more details about more things than just about anything else in the field. Covers vegetables you've probably never heard of.

The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book

Covers Ruth's famous year-round mulch method of gardening. This process eliminates the need for sprays, weeding, hoeing or other toilsome garden chores.  Its completely tested gardening method, perfected during more than 40 years of experience, eliminates gardening strain and toil, and does it organically with no dangerous chemical fertilizers or toxic sprays.

Tips For The Lazy Gardener

A very useful book of time- and energy-saving tips for the gardener. When you have too much to do and too little time for it all, this sort of 'laziness' may be a lifesaver.

Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times

Perhaps the first gardening book written with energy depletion in mind. Written for families to impliment in their backyards in order to help ease their way through hard times.