Gardening Book Recommendations [View all]

Dedicated to the nature lovers in the DU Gardening forum.

We use frameless raised beds and have had six years of success. I have found gardening systems that economize on purchases and reduce the amount of work required. We have a one thousand square foot garden with two permanent beds of strawberries and cranberries and don't have much trouble keeping up with it.

We started raised beds when I found the Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Ed Smith. The Bible is the perfect book for beginners:
http://www.storey.com/book_detail.php?isbn=9781603424752

Gardening when it Counts economizes on effort and purchases. Author Steve Solomon has excellent, detailed instructions on how to use gardening tools and how to germinate, cultivate, irrigate and fertigate your plants:
http://www.newsociety.com/Books/G/Gardening-When-It-Counts

The Winter Harvest Handbook keeps us in greens until January:
http://www.fourseasonfarm.com/books/index.html#harvest