Five Favorite Organic Gardening Books

Spring is here! Planning your summer garden? Here are a handful of our favorite natural and organic gardening books.

1. Rodale's All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener - The Bible of organic gardening. They don't call it an encyclopedia for nothing.

2. Eliot Coleman's The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener (A Gardener's Supply Book) - I had the opportunity to work with Eliot when I was in high school at The Mountain School in Vermont. He's a living legend in the world of organics, and with good reason. (If you already have a copy of The New Organic Grower, pick up Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long (Paperback). If Coleman can grown vegetables year-round (in Maine, no less!), you can, too.

3. The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals (Paperback) - A great reference, focused not only on how to keep pests and diseases out of your garden, but how to get rid of them if they're there.

4. Great Garden Companions: A Companion-Planting System for a Beautiful, Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden (Paperback) - "Natural chaos" made beautiful. How to plant a combination of vegetables, herbs and flowers that will naturally protect each other from pests and disease. Also check out Carrots Love Tomatoes, by Louise Riotte.

5. Jerry Baker's Giant Book of Garden Solutions: 1,954 Natural Remedies to Handle Your Toughest Garden Problems (Jerry Baker's Good Gardening series) - How to turn common household ingredients and objects into effective gardening and pest-control tools. Beer, baby shampoo, pantyhose...the solutions aren't always all-natural, but they're definitely home-grown.

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