 | The Frugal Gardener: How to Have More Garden for Less Money by Catriona Tudor Erler
Buy used from: $5.64 This out-of-print book focuses on frugal gardening, which is important to me.
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 | The Low-Maintenance Garden: A Complete Guide to Designs, Plants and Techniques for Easy-care Gardens by Susan Berry
Buy used from: $4.34 This book focuses on low-maintenance gardens, which may help me as a beginning gardener.
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 | Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener
Buy used from: $6.99 Another important factor is that my plants are planted and cared for organically. I think we have too many chemicals in our diet, and I would want to have more natural foodstuffs in our diet.
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 | Gardening All-in-One for Dummies by The National Gardening Association
Buy new: $18.89 / Used from: $3.18 This seems like it would be a great all-in-one gardening primer. I know that the For Dummies books do not go much in depth, but this would be a good starting book.
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 | The Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Book (Southern Fruit and Vegetable Books) by Walter Reeves
Buy new: $11.04 / Used from: $6.99 Now we get into the books that will teach me about planting in the area I live in. We'll be at the Northern tip of Kentucky, but this book will be indispensable (I hope) to planting a Kentucky garden.
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 | Gardening in the Lower Midwest: A Practical Guide for the New Zones 5 and 6 by Diane Heilenman
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.22 This is similar to the last book in that it is area specific. This book focuses on Zones 5 and 6. I'll have to look again to see which zone I'm in, but I know this book will be useful.
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