Anything that says Rodale on it, is great reading info.. I have a whole series of them, from veggie gardening, to pruning to companion planting..
I spent a few dollars but I really liked them..
and anything that says Louise Riott on it, is good too, I do love the one mentioned above, *I dont' have it, but I have snuck peaks at it*
For me, I am a raised bed gardener, and love the concept Mel Bartholomew in Square Foot Gardening has to offer... it's a good concept, and I don't care if you have a big garden or a small garden, you can apply something.
Eliot Coleman and his wife Barbara Damrosch are one of my top favorite gardeners...
***If anything happened to the world, and grocery stores, and one had to depend on themselves for food, I WOULD LIKE TO BE THEIR NEIGHBORS
***
They live in Maine now, and garden almost year round *if not year round* they are awesome gardeners and growers and cooks and storers...
I love the one book, *which I don't have but have snuck peaks at is "The Four Season Harvest",
and has a "Winter Harvest Manual" out too.
I think with your
growing climate, that would one of the first places I'd send you...
*alot of my answers/replies depend on the type of gardener you are, or would like to be someday..
~~~>I would just give about anything to be like those two.... but some how with the lifestlye I have now, I don't think I will ever get there
but it's nice to dream...
What kind of gardening do you do, like to do, hope to do???
I have two other books I like for building projects too, but they're a bit older publications, I'll dig up the names and who wrote them, one is the "Backyard Builder"