Recommended Books:
All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community by Heather Coburn Flores
The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production by Eliot Coleman
The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman
Articles
Tilling: A Huge Waste of Time by Lee Reich
Soil scientist Lee Reich has maintained no-till flower and vegetable gardens for over two decades. Here’s how to eliminate this useless gardening chore.
Online Resources
Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Gardening Resources
This Portal to gardening information is so complete it can almost be overwhelming. Here are a few links that are particularly relevant to Urban Community Garden Members:
- Growing in containers – downloadable .pdf with everything you need to know about growing in containers
- Raised Bed Gardening – downloadable .pdf introduction to Raised Bed Gardening
- Cornell Composting – Everything you wanted to know about composting, but were afraid to ask?
- Vegetable Growing Guides - Guides to 58 Garden Vegetables. Each profile contains a detailed description and growing instructions, site and soil requirements, varieties, and solutions for managing pests and diseases.
NYC Metropolitan Area Urban Garden Planting Calendar – downloadable .pdf
The NYC Compost Project – Excellent composting how to guide
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens’ Gardening Resources – A wealth of gardening information and guidebooks.
