The Complete Gardener

Combining practical advice with stunning photography, Completely Organic show gardeners how to create a self sustainable, environmentally friendly garden for the 21st century, by making the most of the available natural resources to grow organic fruits and vegetables, as well as beautiful plants and flowers. Monty Don's personal chronicle of a year in his garden, including both successes and failures, shows how an organic lifestyle can be adopted by anyone, and organic gardening can be practiced in a yard of any size.

top garden design books

Second Nature - Michael Pollan +w In the mid-1980s, Michael Pollan began gardening on the grounds of the old...  read more

2.  Gaia's Garden - Toby Hemenway +w 3.  Food Not Lawns - H. C. Flores +w 4.  Carrots Love Tomatoes - Louise Riotte +w 5.  You Grow Girl - Gayla Sanders +w 6.  Your Backyard Herb Garden - Miranda Smith +w 7.  Gardening All-In-One for Dummies - National Gardening Association +w 8.  Outside the Not So Big House - Julie Moir Messervy +w 9.  Martha Stewart's Gardening - Martha Stewart +w 10.  Newspaper, Pennies, Cardboard & Eggs for Growing a Better Garden - Roger B. Yepsen +w

top reference books

The Encyclopedia of Country Living - Carla Emery +w A comprehensive source for information about food production, from the garden...  read more

2.  Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild - Steve Brill +w 3.  Mycelium Running - Paul Stamets +w 4.  Permaculture Plants - Jeff Nugent +w 5.  The Plant Propagator's Bible - Quarto Publishing +w 6.  The Big Book of Gardening Skills - Garden Way +w 7.  The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It - John Seymour +w 8.  The Complete Book of Bonsai - Harry Tomlinson +w 9.  The Firefly Dictionary of Plant Names - Harold Bagust +w 10.  Perennials - Darrell Apps +w