1. Creative Vegetable Gardening by Joy Larkcom This is one of the very best. The author is British, and she grows vegetables beautifully. |
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2. Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn by Fritz Haeg I think everybody should read Fritz Haeg’s book. It’s like a manifesto of vegetable gardening. And he’s not at all concerned with the visuals. It’s all about how we can save the planet by growing vegetables in our front garden, and it’s a fabulous book. He’s a very stylish L.A. architect and artist. He’s out in front of the movement to better use the land that we have. |
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3. The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques by Rosalind Creasy This book came out in the early ‘80s and is being updated now. It’s really the bible of edible landscaping. The author shares Fritz Haeg’s perspective, and she wrote a little piece in his books about how growing your own food is a really valuable thing to be doing and can help change the global economy. She’s got the visuals too, and I’ve used her garden in my own book. Creasy has been growing vegetables in her front yard since the early ‘80s, when doing so seemed like a revolutionary idea. |
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4. Gardener Cook by Christopher Lloyd Christoper Lloyd’s whole philosophy is about eating fresh from the garden, finding joy wandering around with your snips and basket and figuring out what you want to cook. He articulates it better than anyone because he cooked from his garden for so many years. |
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5. The Garden Through the Year by Graham Stuart Thomas Graham Stuart Thomas published this book when he was in his early 90′s. It’s arranged by month, which is exactly how gardeners think about their gardens, and it has not only photos but also the author’s own drawings. If I were to have only one book, it would probably be this one. It’s a gorgeous book. And it’s his accumulated wisdom from having gardened since he was a boy. |
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