Product Description

With this comprehensive, illustrated guide for both novice and expert gardeners, popular San Francisco Chronicle garden columnist Katherine Grace Endicott maps out the rewards of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables throughout Northern California. The unique month-by-month format helps readers find answers when they need them, while detailed information on native and nonnative species and basic planting and pruning techniques make carefree gardening easier than ever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1259605 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-10
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
Katherine Grace Endicott has written an award-winning column for the San Francisco Chronicle for the past eight years and writes on Northern California gardening for Home Garden. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Customer Reviews

Indispensable Guide for Northern CA gardeners
While there are many guides to Bay Area Gardening, those of us in Zone 14 (Sacramento) are usually busy trying to translate instructions for a dramatically different climate to our own gardening needs.

This book is an indispensable guide for ALL Northern Californians. Month-by-month the author tells us what all gardeners should be doing, then has specific recommendations for Central Valley, Mountain, and Coastal gardeners. Each month also includes great advice on pest control (she favors gentle methods), planting, pruning, and what is usually available at local nurseries.

This guide is especially good for people who are new to Northern CA, and are in garden shock. When I moved from Zone 4 to Zone 14 it was the first book I purchased and it was a real life saver (the plants's lives, that is!)

Great region-specific gardening resource
This book has helped me make the transition to gardening in the Central Valley. Besides being a new gardener, I'm also new to the Sacramento area. Northern California Gardening explains plant care clearly and includes a lot of recommendations for plants that thrive in the different NorCal micro-climates.

Because there's a limit to how much the book can cover, some subjects aren't explained as thoroughly as a beginner (like me) needs, but it provides me with a good starting point.

I love that the book is divided up by the different months of the year, specifying what tasks I need to consider during each month. It gets me excited about what gardening I will be doing in a few months' time.

A must-have for newbies to Northern California
I stumbled on this book at the library, and now I have to have my very own copy to keep at my bedside! People who have grown up gardening in Northern California might find Endicott's advice old hat, but for people like me -- a longtime gardener but new to this region -- or for longtime NoCal residents who are just now getting into gardening -- this is an excellent guide. Highly recommended!