Best Gardening Books

Since its original publication in 1989, The New Organic Grower has been one of the most important farming books available, with pioneer Eliot Coleman leading the charge in the organic movement in the United States. Now fully illustrated and updated, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a musthave for any agricultural library.Eliot Coleman?s books and ...

Now in a special updated 6th edition with a new formula for complete organic fertilizer, this complete guide to organic vegetable gardening addresses issues of soil, seeds, compost, and watering. Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades evolved from a selfpublished pamphlet to the master guide to organic vegetable gardening over the past 35 years. ...

Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for organic gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine. In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustr...

Following a snowfilled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they've had enough of all that brown and resolve to plant a garden. They dig, they plant, they play, they wait . . . and wait . . . until at last, the brown becomes a more hopeful shade of brown, a sign that spring may finally be on its way. Julie Fogliano's tender story of anticip...

"Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." So begins Lois Ehlert?s bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young. The necessary tools are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot). Then the real gardening happens . . . planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, a...

What are vegetables, anyway Give kids the 411 on veggies with this richly illustrated introduction to produce!Peppers, beans, corn, and peas! Nonfiction superstar Gail Gibbons lays out the basics of veggies with colorful watercolors and straightforward text. Learn how they grow, how they get to stores, and how many kinds there areand learn some ...

Garden like Mother Nature, with an organic system that?s good for plants and good for people. Say goodbye to backaches and weed problems! Lee Reich?s organic Weedless Gardening eschews the traditional yearly digging up and working over of the soil. It?s is an easytofollow, lowimpact approach to planting and maintaining a flower garden, a veg...

The remarkable 1,200year history of the Japanese cherry blossom treeand how it was saved from extinction by an English gardener.Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907. So taken with the plant, he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he...

"Building on a rhyme that will be familiar to many children, authorillustrator Cole creates an enticing guide to creating a garden. 'This is the garden that Jack planted...' The final illustration presents a satisfiedlooking boy surrounded by a lush, birdfilled flower garden....A concluding page of gardening suggestions serves as a springboard t...

Every fall, spectacular orange and black clouds of monarch butterflies fill the skies as they migrate from across North America to Central Mexico. West Coast populations make a similar though much shorter trip to coastal California. The National Wildlife Federation calls the monarch migration one of the greatest natural phenomena in the insect wor...

Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, and practical knowhow. They are not only...

The Cut Flower Garden : Erin Benzakein is a florist farmer, leader in the locaflor farm to centerpiece movement, and owner of internationally renowned Floret Flower Farm in Washington's lush Skagit Valley. A stunning flower book: This beautiful gardening book and guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year round provides reader...

Everyone longs for fragrant spring blossoms ? Snapdragons, Bells of Ireland, Sweet Peas, Sweet Williams and other beauties. But few grow them successfully in their own gardens because they haven?t learned the simple techniques that make it possible. Expert flower grower Lisa Mason Zeigler introduces us to the longblooming stars of the spring garde...

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Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes ? from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to the various pests...

The Beekeeper?s Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover. Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from how to manage hives safely to harvesting one's own honey, and...

Written with passion and packed with practical information, Monty Don's The Complete Gardener is a mustread for anyone who wants to learn how to garden.Here, Monty reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment by gardening organically.Grounded in his own experience, Monty's stra...

Les Jardins de la Grelinette is a microfarm located in eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Growing on just 1.5 acres, owners JeanMartin and MaudeHelène feed more than two hundred families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to dozens of local establishments. The secret...

All gardeners and farmers should be plant breeders, says author Carol Deppe. Developing new vegetable varieties doesn't require a specialized education, a lot of land, or even a lot of time. It can be done on any scale. It's enjoyable. It's deeply rewarding. You can get useful new varieties much faster than you might suppose. And you can eat your m...

The first edition of Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban...

Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life ? not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an ars...

The bible of sustainable living, food gardening, and living green, no home is complete without this oneofakind encyclopedia! For more than thirty years, people have relied on the thousands of recipes, detailed howto instructions, and personal advice provided in this definitive classic. It is the most complete source of stepbystep information ...

The domestic cut flower business has experienced a renaissance in the past decade, thanks in large part to the first edition of The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, which helped thousands of small growers start successful businesses. This newly expanded and thoroughly revised edition will be equally as in...

"The Resilient Homestead" is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition.Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permacultureresearch farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be o...

The Western Garden Book presents hundreds of pages worth of gardening wisdom from the editors of Sunset magazine. The Western reader will find plenty of ideas and tips on growing beautiful gardens, primarily in the Western United States....

Peterson The bestselling field guides of all timeMedicinal plants are increasingly well regarded as supplements and sometimes as alternatives for prescription drugs. Steven Foster and James A. Duke have used recent advances in the study of medicinal plants and their combined experience of over 100 years to completely update the Peterson Field Guid...

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A guide to 32 of the best and most common edible wild plants in North America, with detailed information on how to identify them, where they are found, how and when they are harvested, which parts are used, how they are prepared, as well as their culinary use, ecology, conservation, and cultural history....

Awardwinning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. Poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to a fascinating array of seed and plant facts, making it a guide that is equally at home being read on a parent's lap as in a classroo...

Down the Garden Path has stood the test of time as one of the world?s bestloved and mostquoted gardening books. From a disaster building a rock garden, to further adventures with greenhouses, woodland gardens, not to mention cats and treacle, Nichols has left us a true gardening classic....

If you love the joys of eating homegarden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide...

This second edition of Garden Insects of North America solidifies its place as the most comprehensive guide to the common insects, mites, and other "bugs" found in the backyards and gardens of the United States and Canada. Featuring 3,300 fullcolor photos and concise, detailed text, this fully revised book covers the hundreds of species of insects...

Full of useful tips and practical garden wisdom, this straightforward guide shows you everything you need to know to grow a more bountiful harvest with less work. Stressing the utility of raised beds and wide rows, gardening expert Dick Raymond shares his timetested techniques for preparing the soil, starting plants, and controlling weeds. With he...

No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig experts Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set up a no dig garden, including how to: Make compost and enrich soil Learn skills you nee...

When the inspiration hits to start an organic garden, many novices could benefit from a guidebook that speaks directly to their enthusiasm, their goals, and, of course, their need for solid information that speaks a newbie's language?from the most trusted source for organic gardening methods.In Rodale's Basic Organic Gardening by Deborah L. Martin,...

Over 400 entries of the most practical, uptodate gardening information ever, collected from garden experts and writers nationwide!"Gardens are places to renew yourself in mind and body, to reawaken to the truth and beauty of the natural world, and to feel the life force inside and around you. And the organic way to garden is safer, cheaper, and m...

Plant a pumpkinseed with a child, and cultivate wonder. This simple act of reconnecting with children with nature is Sharon Lovejoy's purpose and joy and gift. Author of Sunflower Houses: Garden Discoveries for Children of All Ages and Hollyhock Days: Garden Adventures for the Young at Heart, Sharon Lovejoy is a nationally known garden writer whose...

One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world. This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtak...

The most comprehensive, entertaining, downtoearth onevolume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods."?Chicago Tribune "Best of the crop."?House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose."?The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer "Covers just about ever...

Discover the last W.O.R.D. in vegetable gardening with Ed Smith's amazing gardening system. By integrating four principles Wide beds, Organic methods, Raised beds, and Deep beds Smith reinvents vegetable gardening, making it possible for everyone to have the best, most successful garden ever. By following this complete system you cultivate de...

Whether you?re a seasoned gardener determined to increase crop yields or starting your very first vegetable garden, the WeekbyWeek Vegetable Gardener?s Handbook will help you manage your schedule and prioritize what?s important. Detailed weekly todo lists break gardening down into simple and manageable tasks so that you always know what needs to...

?This practical guide is lush with clear, stepbystep advice.? ?Real Simple Whether you are a new gardener or a green thumb, The WellTended Perennial Garden is here to help you successfully plan, plant, and tend your garden. This hardworking guide includes thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care?included deadheading, pinchin...

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that's taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with "The New Organic Grower" published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his worldrenowned organic farm in...

Even in winter?s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive struct...

"Top grossing gardening book of 2019 in the UK."Huw Richards is the future of gardening" (The Guardian)"This beautifully illustrated book teaches you what to do monthby month in order to have success in the garden"(The Sun)"Ideal for new allotmenteers and gardeners starting to dabble in growing their own crops" (The English Garden)In just one rais...

Our journey as gardeners started with one small potted plant, but things did not go as planned. Turns out, trying something new isn't always easy, but sometimes, it's the hardest work that leads to the greatest reward....

Wisdom and advice from a legendary gardener....

More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous lookalikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses....

In Field Guide to Urban Gardening, author Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening shares the basics of growing plants, offers tips on how to choose the right urban gardening method, and troubleshoots the most common problems you?ll encounter. If you think it?s impossible to grow your own food because you don?t have a large yard or you live in the city?t...

In "Homegrown Herbs," Tammi Hartung provides the definitive guide to planting, growing, harvesting, and using more than 100 herbs. An internationally renowned herbalist, teacher, and certified organic grower, Hartung has filled this indispensable reference with a wide range of information gathered from her 30 years of studying and working handson ...

?Makes the science of plant processes accessible to home gardeners.? ?The American Gardener Why do container plants wilt even when they?ve been regularly watered Why did the hydrangea that thrived last year never bloom this year Plant physiology?the study of how living things function?can solve these and most other problems gardeners regularly en...

Take your love of plants to the next level and start growing some food with this modern, easytofollow guidebook that shows you everything you need to know to grow edible plants all year round!Did you know you could grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs in containers Well, now you can take your houseplants to the next level by growing homegrown pro...

With few exceptionssuch as corn and pumpkinseverything edible that's grown in a traditional garden can be raised in a container. And with only one exceptionwateringcontainer gardening is a whole lot easier. Beginning with the downtoearth basics of soil, sun and water, fertilizer, seeds and propagation, The Bountiful Container is an extraordin...

There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, lowmaintenance source of food.Imagine growing vegetables that require just about the same...

?As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action.? ?Chicago Tribune Over time, with industrialization and urban sprawl, we have driven nature out of our neighborhoods and cities. But we can invite it back by designing landscapes that look and function more like they do in the wild: robust, diverse, and visually harmonious. Planting...

For every gardener who cares about the planet, this guide to designing a bee garden helps you create a stunningly colorful, vibrant, healthy habitat that attracts both honeybees and native bees. In The BeeFriendly Garden , awardwinning garden designer Kate Frey and bee expert Gretchen LeBuhn provide everything you need to know to create a da...

It?s a whole new world of houseplants, so make yourself at home in it! If you love the idea of keeping houseplants, but struggle to care for them, you?ll find solace and invaluable advice in this comprehensive guide from expert gardener Barbara Pleasant. Even experienced houseplant enthusiasts will benefit from Pleasant?s expansive knowledge of ind...

Enjoy bushels of crispy apples and baskets of juicy blueberries from your own backyard. Authors Lewis Hill and Leonard Perry provide everything you need to know to successfully grow delicious organic fruit at home, from choosing the best varieties for your area to planting, pruning, and harvesting a bountiful crop. With tips on cultivating strawber...

With growing consumer awareness about the dangers of garden chemicals, turn to The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Pest and Disease Control (by Fern Bradley) as the most reliable and comprehensive guide on the garden shelf. Rodale has been the category leader in organic methods for decades, and this thoroughly updated edition features the la...

A story of things learned, and "unlearned" about gardening. Covers questions people ask, more about mulch than you probably want to know, all about flowers, vegetables and more. A treasuretrove of organic gardening knowhow....

The charming tale of The Tiny Seed, by beloved author and illustrator Eric Carle, is now available as a Level 2 ReadytoRead!Eric Carle?s classic story of the life cycle of a flower is told through the adventures of a tiny seed. Everyone will cheer for the seed?s progress as it floats across the sky, nestles in the ground, and finally grows into t...

It's easy to appreciate a garden exploding with colorful flowers and fragrances, but what do you do with a patch of ugly vegetables Author/illustrator Grace Lin recalls such a garden in this charming and eloquent story.The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the garden of "blackpurplegree...

Harvest tomatoes on a patio, produce a pumpkin in a planter, and grow broccoli on a balcony! Bestselling author Ed Smith shows you everything you need to know to successfully create and care for an edible container garden, from choosing the right plants and selecting appropriate containers through controlling pests without chemicals and harvesting...

In this exuberant and lyrical followup to the awardwinning Over and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt.Explore the secret world beneath the dirt that brings the world of nature to life: Up in the garden, the world is full of green?leaves and sprouts, growing ve...

Fight garden pests and increase your yields the natural way with this tried and true technique! Planting vegetables and flowers together is one of the oldest ways to create a healthy, bountiful garden, but there's more to the method than you might think. Vegetables Love Flowers will walk you through the ins and outs of companion planting, from how ...

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?Beautiful color photographs . . . temptingly arranged.??The Library LetterPlanning an outdoor adventure Make sure to consult this informationpacked and photofilled North American field guide?arranged by season and region?before you go! Already a huge success in previous editions, this musthave field guide now features a fresh new cover, as wel...

In All New Square Food Gardening, 3rd Edition, the bestselling gardening book in North America is relaunched and updated for the next generation of gardeners and beyond. Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh p...

Since its first publication in 1987, the "AHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers" has sold nearly three million copies worldwide.Packed with 8,000 plants for every climateinside and outfrom trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, biennials, bulbs, water plants, and cacti, the "AHS Encyclopedia of Plants & Flowers" is a musthave reference for all gar...

The ideal book for urban gardeners, indoor gardeners, and vegetable gardeners, Container Gardening Complete is a thorough visual guide that will get you growing quickly!Whether you are growing vegetables, fruits, or flowers on an apartment balcony; creating a small vegetable garden for personal use; or decorating steps and walkways, Container Garde...

Edible Landscaping with a Permaculture Twist is a howto manual for the budding gardener and experienced green thumb alike, full of creative and easytofollow designs that guide you to having your yard and eating it, too. With the help of more than 200 beautiful color photos and drawings, permaculture designer and avid grower Michael Judd takes th...

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A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventytwo essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from ?Annuals? and ?Artichokes? to ?Weeds? and ?Wildflowers.? An amateur gardener for over thirty years, Eleanor Perényi draws upon her wideranging knowledge of gardenin...

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Decades before the terms ?ecofriendly? and ?sustainable growing? entered the vernacular, How to Grow More Vegetables demonstrated that smallscale, highyield, allorganic gardening methods could yield bountiful crops over multiple growing cycles using minimal resources in a suburban environment. The concept that John Jeavons and the team at Ecolo...

Tippy, tippy, tippy, Pat! That's the sound three hungry bunnies make when the sun goes down and the moon comes up and Mr. McGreely's garden smells yum, yum, yummy. While he's dreaming of his mouthwatering carrots, the bunnies are diving over fences and swimming trenches to get the veggies first! Hammer, hammer, hammer, Saw! That's the sound Mr. Mc...

This educational and enjoyable book helps children understand how to plant bulbs, seeds, and seedlings, and nurture their growth. Lois Ehlert's bold collage illustrations include six pages of staggered width, presenting all the flowers of each color of the rainbow....

A new edition of this bestselling, easytofollow guide for beginner gardeners.Let BBC Gardener's World writer Ian Spence tell you month by month what to do when in your garden, and show you exactly how to do it too. This fully illustrated book takes you systematically through the year, each chapter looking indepth at one month at a time. A handy...

This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easytofollow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you?ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long. ...

From beloved children's book creators Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson comes the perennial favorite The Carrot Seed, now in a board book that's perfect for little hands.When a little boy plants a carrot seed, everyone tells him it won't grow. But when you are very young, there are some things that you just know, and the little boy knows that one da...

Develop mature compost right in your garden. Barbara Pleasant and Deborah Martin explain their sixway compost gardening system in this informative guide that will have you rethinking how you create and use your compost. With your plants and compost living together from the beginning, your garden will become a nourishing and organic environment tha...

This is the complete guide to flower gardening, from experts Lewis and Nancy Hill. They cover it allfrom choosing your site and designing your garden to improving your soil, choosing and caring for your plants, and fighting pests and disease. Create the flower garden of your dreams with this comprehensive reference....

It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's genius: amusing, informative, and full of a...

Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved twoacre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering and interplanting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spr...

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental wellbeing in our everyday lives.The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the ?real? life that lies outside. But when we get our ...

Your Backyard Herb Garden by Miranda Smith will teach you everything you need to know about growing your favorite herbs using safe, natural, allorganic methods!Practical tips and advice on all aspects of successful herb growing.A wealth of great ideas and helpful howto on using herbs in cooking, crafts, cosmetics, health care, insect repellents, ...

If you want to know whether it is kosher to plant onions between cabbage plants, this is the place to look. Oklahoma TodayFirst published in 1975, this classic companion planting guide has taught a generation of gardeners how to use plants' natural partnerships to produce bigger and better harvests.Over 500,000 in Print!...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, GardeningHobbies, Food, Gardening lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Good Bug Bad Bug, updated 2nd edition, is an indispensable field guide for quickly and easily identifying the most common invasive and beneficial insects in the garden; plus the best organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guys without reaching for the toxic chemicals. Includes strategies for dealing with the ?new bugs i...

A gardening system that works so you don't have to!Turn in your tiller for a stack of old newspapers! Replace your shovel with a layer of grass clippings! Let Pat Lanza show you how you can create lush, successful, easycare gardens in practically any location without hours of backbreaking digging or noisy tilling. Practical, firstperson advice...

How does your garden grow Bookloving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her mommy. She wants to plant her own garden of beautiful flowers, so she and Mommy go to the library to check out books about gardening. They choose their flowers and buy their seeds. They dig and plant. And then they wait. Lola finds it har...

Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to smallarea farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family?s food on just a quarter acre?and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything ...

With the able assistance of Thing 1 and Thing 2 and a fleet of Rube Goldbergian vehicles the Cat in the Hat examines the various parts of plants, seeds, and flowers; basic photosynthesis and pollination; and seed dispersal....

Learn all about raised beds?and up your gardening game. Worried about space Interested in bigger and better yields RaisedBed Gardening for Beginners shows you all the amazing advantages of raisedbed gardens?and how easy creating them can be.A complete primer for fresh and experienced planters alike, this book contains everything you need to kno...

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when a Dutch physician added oil of juniper to a clear spirit, believing that juniper berries would cure kidney disorders. "The Drunken Botanist" uncovers the enlightening botanical history and the fascinating scienc...