Gardening Books by Duane & Karen Newcomb
Duane Newcomb is the author of ten bestselling garden books. With a background in forestry, botany and horticulture,
he is a leading advocate of intensive small-space gardening.
Karen Newcomb is the coauthor of four garden books and is considered a top expert in vegetable varieties
and intensive gardening. Together their books have sold more than two and a half million copies.
The Backyard Vegetable Factory: Super Yields from Small Spaces
by Duane NewcombIf you don't seem to have time to garden...if you have a yard the size of a postage stamp...it's time you
turned your garden into a Vegetable Factory! With the Vegetable Factory system, you canproduce more than 200 pounds of produce
in a 5-by-5foot plot.
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Postage Stamp Garden Book
A postage stamp garden is a small area that can produce a bounty
of herbs and vegetables. Many gardeners complain that they are short on both time and garden space. The Postage Stamp Garden
Book solves both of these problems. The instructions in this book clearly demonstrate how anyone can produce tremendous
amounts of vegetables in small spaces (using containers as well as ground gardens) by following intensive, ecologically friendly
techniques that require much less weeding, watering, and overall effort.
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Small Space Big Harvest
The key steps of this super yeild program include:
- Powerpacking your soil with nutrients, developing soil "recipes," and learning the secret of garbage-can
composting
- Creating a robust, interactive vegetable community by focusing your plantings on key producer plants.
- Growing an abundance of vegetables, flowers, and herbs even in you don't have a garden, and increasing the
harvest if you do.
- Planting the right varieties and growing each vegetable to its super productive, flavorful best.
California Vegetable Patch and Seed Source
Organic Gardner's Complete Reference Almanac: Duane & Karen Newcomb
This one-of-a-kind almanac provides the ultamate resource for organic gardeners. Here are the basics and
more--with specific instructions for the care of more than two thousand varieties of vegetables, plus the most complete seed
source listing available today. Expert how-to tricks and tips the authors have discovered during their twenty-five years of
gardening are offered for beginning and experienced gardeners alike.
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Timber Press Books
Timber Press is recognized as the world's leading publisher of high-level horticultural books with more
than 400 titles in print. Every gardener and horticulturist should have one or more of these titles on their shelves.
You can purchase the following through the Postage Stamp Gardening Bookstore.
 The Berry Grower's Companion
Barbara L. Bowling
Berry fruits have long been used and appreciated in the kitchen, but the aesthetic and practical benefits they bring to the
garden landscape are all too often ignored. Whether for the ground cover effect of a strawberry plant, the colorful autumn
foliage of a blueberry plant, the climbing trait of a grapevine, or the hedge potential of an elderberry bush, these plants
are highly versatile contributors to a range of garden environments. And growing such gems in your own backyard means convenient
access to savory fruits for the table or for sale.
0-88192-489-X, 308 pp, 40 color photos, 25 b/w illus., 17 tables, 6 x 9",
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 Herbs in Bloom: A Guide to Growing Herbs as Ornamental Plants
Jo
Ann Gardner
Herbs in Bloom presents 80 of the author's favorites, based on more than 25 years' experience as an herb grower, with
some mention of more than 700 related species and cultivars. Emphasis is on ornamental qualities and garden uses of the herbs
described, with detailed suggestions on how best to grow them from seed or from cuttings, but it also includes a good deal
of history and lore, and even the occasional recipe.
0-88192-454-7, 394 pp, 117 color photos, 10 line drawings, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 1998
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 Adrian Bloom's Year-Round Garden
Adrian Bloom
Previously published in two separate volumes (Summer Garden Glory and Winter Garden Glory), this book shows
the author's six-acre private garden, Foggy Bottom, throughout the year. It demonstrates the appeal and interest provided
by successful plant associations and illustrates many of the varieties developed by the world-famous Blooms of Bressingham
nursery that are becoming increasingly available in the U.S.
0-88192-457-1, 287 pp, 491 color photos, 9 x 10 1/2", hardcover, © 1998
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 The Year in Trees: Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season Gardens
Kim E. Tripp and J. C. Raulston
Kim Tripp assisted the late J. C. Raulston in his pioneering work on plant testing and introduction at the North Carolina
State University Arboretum, and together they produced this collection of 150 exciting trees and shrubs that can bring new
interest to gardens throughout the year.
Published at $44.95
Our last copies available at $22.49
0-88192-320-6, 274 pp, 206 color photos, 7 3/8 x 10 3/8", hardcover, © 1995
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 Landscaping with Herbs
James Adams
Although the focus is on herbs as ornamentals in a variety of garden settings, from formal to wild, this is really an encyclopedia
of herbs, including more than 600 species and cultivars. It offers a wealth of information on cultivation, folklore and history,
and culinary uses.
0-88192-514-4, 247 pp, 134 color photos, 58 line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11", paperback, © 1987
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 The Well-The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and Borders with Trees, Shrubs,
Perennials, Annuals, and Bulbs
Tracy DiSabato-Aust
Foreword by C. Colston Burrell
Illustrations by Megan
H. King, Martin Knapp, and Stacey Renee Peters
The Well-Designed Mixed Garden is a design book with a difference. Written for gardeners who are passionate about plants
of all kinds (hence the "mixed garden" of the title), it reflects decades of professional experience and artistic innovation.
As with her bestselling book The Well-Tended Perennial Garden, master designer and plantswoman Tracy DiSabato-Aust provides
not only inspiration but also scrupulously organized information on design and connoisseur plants --- all from original research
dating back to her degree work in horticulture.
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