Book Review

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    Book Review: Texas Bug Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    The Texas Bug Book is a glossary of the most common pests and beneficials around the garden.

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    Front Yard Vegetable Gardening

    If you’re tired of spending time and energy growing a green, but inedible front yard, there’s a delicious alternative waiting for you.

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    “Organic Gardener’s Companion” Book Review

    It is possible to grow an organic vegetable garden in the West. All you need is soil, sun, seeds and Jane Shellenberger’s new book.

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    Year-Round Vegetable Gardening

    Four seasons of vegetable gardening sounds like a gardener’s dream come true. Niki Jabbour proves it’s possible in her new book, “The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener.”

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    Gardening for Beginners

    Katie Elzer-Peters new gardening guide is like a cookbook for beginning gardeners. Her “Beginner’s Illustrated Guide to Gardening” provides all the recipes they need for starting a garden and keeping…

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    Small-Space Gardening Book Review

    If you enjoy reading contributing editor Chris McLaughlin’s weekly posts about vegetable gardening, you’ll love her new book on gardening in small spaces.

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    Winter Solstice and thoughts about Gardens of Use and Delight

    Another year has rolled around… and we are celebrating the winter solstice. Although it officially happened here at 12:30 a.m. this morning, I attended an solstice celebration last night. It…

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    The Heirloom Life Gardener Book Review

    This holiday season, I've become wrapped up in a book that's tailor-made for my reading pleasure: The Heirloom Life Gardener.

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    Magical Moons and Seasonal Circles

    Magical Moons & Seasonal Circles is a book featuring Phenology, which is the study of the timing of natural-occuring events happening with all fauna and flora, which is influenced by…

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    Your Farm in the City Book Review

    Let's start with the obvious which is the physical presence of the book which is, in this case, worth discussing.