The indispensable one-volume reference guide to gardening simply, beautifully, and well"--now 100% organic. br . Jam-packed with useful information, old-fashioned common sense, and a lifetime's worth of experience, The Garden Primer is a classic, thoroughly revised and expanded to be 100% organic in its recommendations. Updated with the latest on plants, soils, techniques, and told, it includes: The basics of landscaping, emphasizing sustainable methods. Understanding what plants need and avoiding complex rules and formulas, How to choose and combine flowers for seaon-long color, orchestrating with perennials and accenting with annuals. Extending the seas ..

Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman are America's foremost organic gardeners--and authorities. Barbara is the author of The Garden Primer , and Eliot wrote the bible for organic gardening, The New Organic Grower . Today they are the face of the locavore movement, working through their extraordinary Four Season Farm in Maine. And now they've written the book on how to grow what you eat, and cook what you grow. br The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook is two books in one. It's a complete four-season cookbook with 120 recipes from Barbara, a master cook as well as master gardener, who shows how to maximize the fruits--and vegetables--of your labors, from Stuff ..