The Best of Organic Gardening

Edited By Mike McGrath
Rodale, $12.95

ISBN 0875966470

Review by Pat Regel

Since 1942, Organic Gardening magazine has given its readers articles packed with proven organic techniques for growing bountiful harvests. The Best of Organic Gardening is the cream of the crop gathered into a one-volume reference that is sure to delight any gardener -- organic or otherwise. Mike McGrath (editor of Organic Gardening magazine) has compiled the best of 50 years of hands-on, how-to gardening knowledge. Each article is dated and includes everything from compost and companion planting to the latest on safe, effective pest and disease control. Want a sample? What about:

  • "Growing Plants in Hotbeds and Cold Frames" -- February 1958

  • "Building the Japanese Tomato Ring" -- June 1976

  • "Q and A Through the Years" -- 1948 to 1988

    The reader will find gardening secrets and expert advice from gardening greats Ruth Stout, Euell Gibbons, and Wendell Berry, as well as lots of helpful line drawings. This reviewer likes the compact volume. It's not a clumsy oversized book that can't be transported about -- you can take this one to the garden with you. This book makes a great gardening gift for a new gardener just starting out, an earth-safe gardener, or one who's seen and done it all.

    Pat Regel writes, gardens, and lectures in Nashville.

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