Our best market gardening book reviewsRead all about it! Market gardening book reviews from the literati at New Terra Farm. We have a BIG personal library of farming and gardening books (100+ volumes), but a few of these stand out from the crowd. We bring you the best of the best here, along with a source (if we can dig one up). Yes it's the 'real dirt' about organic market gardening, presented for your edification. At New Terra Farm, we're all about the book learnin'. On with the reviews! The New Organic Grower; He covers everything from starting transplants to garden layout to crop rotation to maintaining garden fertility. The book has lots of pictures and diagrams to help demonstrate his methods. Highly recommended for the beginner to intermediate level market gardener. Get the book from
Chapters.ca
or from
Amazon.com
The Four-Season Harvest How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Gardens All Year Long by Eliot Coleman A follow-on book from ‘The New Organic Grower’. This is a great reference on season extension in a cold climate. We use many of his recommended techniques to extend our growing season, and at the time of writing are planning on building a moving hoop-house as explained in the book. If you are looking for low-input and low-impact ways of growing food pretty much year-round (even in Canada the Cold), this is a great place to start your research. Note: this is not the first market gardening book I would recommend for the beginner; see rather Coleman's other book above. But if you are an experienced gardener and would like to learn how to 'stretch out the season' without generating a lot of greenhouse gases, this is a good choice. It is more focused on the home gardener than the market gardener, but many of the techniques are adaptable. You can find this book at
Chapter.ca
or
Amazon.com
The Complete Vegetable and Herb Gardener; a Guide to Growing Your Garden Organically by Karan Davis Cutler This book provided me invaluable information when I was first developing my Bootstrap Garden Planner. It is probably the single best reference I own about how to grow specific crops, and the appropriate quantities to plan for. Ms. Cutler discusses sites, soils, plant starting, transplanting, harvesting, and plant diseases and pests. If you could buy only one gardening book as a market gardener, I would recommend this one. Find it at
Chapters.ca
or
Amazon.com
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