 | Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $11.48 An excellent all-around introduction. You'll want more detailed books eventually, but for starting out this book has a little bit of everything. I still use it to look up optimal growing conditions for a plant or what the bug eating my plant likely is.
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 | Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web by Jeff Lowenfels
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $14.02 What REALLY makes your plants grow well...
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 | Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated) by Carole B. Turner
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $19.31 How to start your own plants from seed! Save money and have fun!
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 | Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $17.86 The nitty gritty details of seed saving.
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 | Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by R.J. Ruppenthal
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.83 How to garden indoors!
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 | Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation by Donald J. Leopold
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $36.80 If you're not in the Northeast, you should find a book that's good for your region.
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 | The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest by Rick Darke
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $26.09 Pretty plants for shady places! Eye candy! Woodland plant reference!
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 | Pollinator Conservation Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Protecting, and Providing Habitat for Native Pollinator Insects by Matthew Shepherd
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $15.00 How to make sure all your veggies and flowers get pollinated, so you have plenty of veggies and berries! Without having to keep honeybees...
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 | The Apple Grower: Guide for the Organic Orchardist by Michael Phillips
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $24.95 Delicious fruit from your yard!
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 | Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides) by Stu Campbell
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $6.69 A wonderful guide to composting! Every organic gardener should compost!
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 | Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System by Mary Appelhof
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $7.31 An excellent composting system for inside the house, when the outdoor one is frozen solid.
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 | Bird-by-Bird Gardening: The Ultimate Guide to Bringing in Your Favorite Birds--Year after Year by Sally Roth
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.18 An astonishingly good reference on gardening for the birds! Includes garden plans, specific plants, plants for nesting, everything!
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 | The Organic Lawn Care Manual by Paul Tukey
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.45 How to have a great lawn without poisoning yourself!
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 | Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $17.26 Food production even in New England winters!
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 | The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $12.98 If you don't have lots of birds and beneficial insects to eat all your pests, you'll want this book to help control pests!
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 | The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques by Rosalind Creasy
Buy used from: $16.04 How to have a beautiful yard AND yummy treats!
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