Library Index
Book Titles
- A-Z of Annuals, Biannual and Bulbs
- Art of the Kitchen Garden
- Best Plant Book Ever
- Building Outdoor Structures
- Carrots Love Tomatoes
- Container Gardening
- Desert Wildflowers
- Everyday Garden Solutions – Reader’s Digest
- Flowering Plants
- Garden Decorating Book
- Garden Madness
- Gardening for Life – The Biodynamic Way
- Great Plants for Small Gardens – Japanese Gardens
- Harvesting Rainwater for Landscaping
- Japanese Gardens
- Kitchen Gardeners Handbook – Design Plans
- Let it Rot – Composting
- Native Plants for High Elevation Western Garden
- New Small Garden
- Organic Gardening for the 21st Century
- Potting Sheds – Romance of Gardeners Made Simple
- Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening Made Simple
- Successful Gardening
- Sunset Western Garden Book
- Talking Dirt – Organic Gardening
- Tea Gardens – Places to Make and Take Tea
- Tulips
- Vegetable Gardening – Simple Steps to Success
- Vegetable Gardening in the Mountain States (Idaho, Mountain, Utah)
- What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden – 100% Organic Solutions
- You Can Garden Anywhere – Tips the Experts Don’t Want You to Know
DVD Titles
- Extraordinary Birds
- Pruning
- The Art of Gardening
If you want to check out a book, please email Karen Crossley <kwilcross@gmail.com> with the title. You can pick it up at the next meeting.
More Details on the Books
A-Z of Annuals, Biannuals & Bulbs
Fiona Gilsenan
Readers Digest, Pub. 1994. 176 pp.
Art of the Kitchen Garden
Jan Gertley
Taunton Press, 1999
150 pages. 8.5″ x 11″
Artistic designs, and plants that feature colorful foliage and flowers figure prominently in this book that celebrates the sort of kitchen garden common within the French Ancein Regime and now rarely found outside bits of the Loire Valley. It provides information on artful designs and plant selections that will bring them to fruition.
Best Plant Book Ever
Comprehensive Guide to Living with Plants
George Seddon
Rand McNally, 1977
Building Outdoor Structures
Scott McBride
Taunton Press 2007
192 pp. 9.19″ x 10.38″
A detailed how-to guide for using wood to construct pergolas, arbors, retaining walls, and more.
Carrots Love Tomatoes
Secrets of companion planting for successful gardening
Loise Riotte
Storey Publishing
224 pp 6″ x 9″
Companion planting can increase yield, preserve soil fertility, and repel pests. This guide suggests some of the best and worst pairings. Parsley loves asparagus, but broccoli hates tomatoes. Follow good companion planting and help your garden become its own healthy ecosystem.
Container Gardening
Desert Wildflowers
Everyday Garden Solutions
National Gardening Association.
256 Pages. 7.8″ 9.9″
Questions answered about weather, composting, ground covers, roses, bulbs, and so on. Perhaps there is some talk of dirt since it talks about a reading age of 18 years and older. Its sole reviewer gave it one star at Amazon.com.
Flowering Plants
Garden Decorating
Garden Madness
Gardening for Life – The Biodynamic Way
Maria Thun, Matthew Barton (Translator)
Hawthorne Press, 1999
128 pages, 6.5″ x 8.5″
Nurture the soil and your plants will grow. The book addresses building and maintaining soil fertility, good planting times, biodynamic preparations, and dealing with diseases and pests.
Great Plants for Small Gardens – Japanese Gardens
Harvesting Rainwater for Landscaping
Patricia Waterfall
Arizona Cooperative Extension Service
56 pages.
The publication discusses how to collect and store non-potable rainwater for the purpose of keeping landscape plants alive. Starting with simple methods and working toward more complex ones, it covers components and system design considerations.
Japanese Gardening
Kitchen Gardener’s Handbook
Let it Rot – A Composter’s Handbook.
Native Plants for the High Elevation Western Garden.
The New Small Garden
Organic Gardening for the 21st Century
Potting Sheds – Romance of Gardeners Made Simple
Raised Bed Gardening Made Simple
Successful Gardening
Sunset Western Garden Book
Talking Dirt – Organic Gardening
Annie Spiegelman
Tarcher Perigree
304 Pages. 5.49″ x 7.56″
“Down to earth advice” on worm cultivation, healthy soil, irrigation systems, pruning, and plant combinations.
Tea Gardens – Places to Make and Take Tea
Ann Lovejoy & Allan Mandell (Photographer)
Chronicle Books, 1998
120 Pages, 7.3″ x 8.3″
This beautifully photographed guide illustrates both design strategies and planting plans to create comfortable outdoor spaces that invite you to linger – prefereably with the cup of tea you have brewed per the instructions also found in the book.
Tulips
Vegetable Gardening – Simple Steps to Success
Vegetable Gardening in the Mountain States
Mary Ann Newcomer
Timber Press, 2014
280 Pages.
Region-specific information can be crucial to success in Vegetable gardening from when to set out seedlings of each plant and how to protect them from untimely frosts to dealing with local and regional pests, weeds, and diseases. This book “takes that task head-on.” The mountain states, btw, share low humidity bright sun, and wide temperature swings. Even though AZ is not in the list, this should be a good reference for high altitude areas near Prescott. When I checked on 20Feb2021 you could buy the paperback version at Amazon for $120.73. So, we’ve got quite a resource here!
What’s Wrong with My Vegetable Garden? – Organic Solutions
Dan Deardorff & Kathryn Wadsworth
Timber Press 2011
252 Pages. 7.69″ x 9.25″
Packed with great photographs it a perfect place to start diagnosing vegetable garden problems. It offers organic solutions to solving them and to avoiding them in the firstp place. Reviewers say “Hooray,” and “Very, very helpful..”
You Can Garden Anywhere
LFC&A Publishing
378 pp 6″ x 9″
Packed with 1317 garden tips. And probably as many exclamation points, it will help you:
- “Enjoy the garden of your dreams without breaking your back!”
- “Grow anything in any nook or cranny!”
- “Turn rock hard dirt into perfect topsoil”
- “Steal the secrets of professionals and save thousands of dollars a year.”
- “And more..!”