 | The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques by Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $19.65 Useful color photo and expanded plant info. Good basic information on perennial gardening techniques.
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 | The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch
Buy used from: $0.01 Good, complete, basic reference.
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 | Western Garden Book
Buy used from: $0.39 Take a look at this great reference even if you live in the East!
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 | The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds by Amy Goldman
Buy used from: $195.00 Superb photography, solid horticultural advice.
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 | The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving by Gail Damerow
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $3.94 Exhaustive list of varieties, complete horticultural advice, great recipes, pen and ink illustrations.
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 | Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening by Louise Riotte
Buy new: $9.72 / Used from: $6.93 Great book on which plants can be grown as neighbors to the benefit of one or the other or both.
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 | Tiny Game Hunting: Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden New Edition by Hilary Dole Klein
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.80 Additional commonsense approaches to dealing with pests in the home as well as outside. Start here before resorting to firearms.
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 | The Rodale Book of Composting: Easy Methods for Every Gardener
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.40 Everything you wanted to know about composting and more.
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 | Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds (A Down-to-Earth Gardening Book) by Marc Rogers
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.09 Save the seed from your most successful plants for next year. Has been criticized as lacking info on flowers in particular, but still quite useful.
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 | Weedless Gardening by Lee Reich
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $4.93 A novel system of gardening reducing heavy lifting and water requirements.
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 | Weeds of the Northeast (Comstock books) by Richard H. Uva
Buy new: $17.46 / Used from: $19.99 Know the "enemy." (Some of these plants can be tolerated, even encouraged.) Profuse photos. Great reference.
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 | Wildflowers: A Guide to Growing and Propagating Native Flowers of North America (The New England Wild Flower Society) by William Cullina
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $15.99 Using appropriate native plants in landscaping can improve success in the garden. Describes techniques, wonderful photo illustrations, species articles.
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 | Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Guide to Using, Growing, and Propagating North American Woody Plants by William Cullina
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $17.99 First class work on native plants to use in landscape, enormous help in design. Profuse color photos. Lots of techniques explained and articles by species.
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 | Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $19.80 Extraordinarily helpful in learning family characteristics of plants. Also gives uses.
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 | Gardener's Latin: A Lexicon by Bill Neal
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $3.99 Explains Latin species names. Includes pronunciation help, wonderful illustrations and notes.
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 | The New England Herb Gardener: Yankee Wisdom for North American Herb Growers (Gardening & Country Living) by Patricia Turcotte
Buy used from: $0.01 An abundance of information and practical advice.
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 | Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards by Sara B. Stein
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.59 Develop an ecologically friendly and horticulturally pleasing backyard.
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 | The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening by Henry Clay Mitchell
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.30 The essays in this book appeared originally in Mitchell's gardening column in the Washington Post. Thoughtful, humorous, and grumpy.
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| Growing Pains: Time and Change in the Garden by Patricia Thorpe
Buy used from: $0.61 Really helpful if your garden has gotten out of hand over the years, or you've acquired a garden that needs remedial work.
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| The American Weekend Garden by Patricia Thorpe
Buy used from: $0.01 Good if you're trying to establish a low maintenance garden.
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