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Favourite Gardening Books

Following are favourite gardening books recommendations from some of our Seedy Saturday committee members. Direct links to the Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) listing will give you much more information about each.

teaming-with-microbes2Teaming With Microbes
The Organic Gardener’s
Guide to the Soil Food Web
Lowenfels, Jeff
Book – 2010 ~ ANF 631.4
VIRL link – Teaming with Microbes
Recommended by Linda.
teaming-with-nutrientsTeaming With Nutrients
The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
By Lowenfels, Jeff
Book – 2013 ~ ANF 575.76
VIRL link – Teaming with Nutrients
Recommended by Linda.
tottering-in-my-gardenTottering in My Garden ~ A Gardener’s Memoir by Midge Ellis Keeble
Camden House 1989 IBSN 0-920656-87-0
I just love reading this book for it reminds me how people just stumble into life long passions. Like Midge, I too started gardening by receiving a seed catalogue in the mail and before I knew it I was planting out flowers with exotic names and French vegetables for my potager. A bonus to this read is that she is Canadian.
(No obvious VIRL Listing)
Recommended by Laurie.
thewelltemperedgarden The Well-tempered Garden
A New Edition of the Gardening Classic

by Christopher Lloyd
Book – 2003
ISBN: 9781841882222, 1841882224
Branch Call Number: ANF 635.9
A classic work by Britain’s most highly respected plantsman, updated for the 21st Century.
Best read ever on a stormy ugly afternoon.
VIRL link – The Well-Tempered Garden
Recommended by Laurie.
thecarefreegarden The Carefree Garden
Letting Nature Play Her Part
by Bill Terry
“What happens when a lifelong gardener finally realizes he must collaborate with Mother Nature, rather than work against her,…”
Book – 2015
ISBN:9781771511261
Branch Call Number: ANF 635.9676
VIRL link – The Carefree Garden
Recommended by Barb C.
a-year-on-the-garden-pathA Year on the Garden Path
A 52-week Organic Gardening Guide
By Carolyn Herriot
“Including seasonally-relevant, practical information, this easy-to-follow, weekly gardening guide explains what is happening in the garden…”
Book – 2005
ISBN: 9780973805802, 0973805803
Branch Call Numbers: ANF 635.048409 HER
ANF 635.048409 HER
VIRL link – A Year on the Garden Path
Recommended by Barb C.
The Organic Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web.
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