Maritime Northwest Garden Guide: Planning Calendar for Year-round Organic Gardening [B1143]

2014 PB in nice clean condition, 2nd (most current) edition. Our Maritime Northwest Garden Guide is designed as a month-by-month gardening calendar, outlining when to plant vegetables, herbs and flowers. In addition, it features information about the principles and techniques essential to year-round organic gardening. It's the type of book you take with you out into the garden and refer to constantly as a reference. The book has withstood the test of time, with more than 68,000 copies sold since it was first published in 1998 and written at that time by Carl Elliot and Rob Peterson. The updated Guide is packed with features to help the year-round vegetable gardener: Monthly garden almanacs that include a quick list of plants that can be sown and harvested each month, a recipe and a monthly set of chores; Year-at-a-glance planting calendars; Vegetable variety lists and resources; Garden planning and design ideas; Fall and winter gardening information; Recent developments in urban agriculture; A comprehensive index; and new illustrations and book design.

The Maritime Northwest region runs roughly from Vancouver, B.C., to Roseburg, Oregon, and from the Cascade foothills to the coast. Michael Levenston, Executive Director of City Farmer Society in Vancouver, B.C., said of our Maritime Northwest Garden Guide, "Tilth Alliance has always led the way for organic gardeners in the Maritime Northwest. This wonderful guide will inspire old and new gardeners alike to grow more food throughout the year and take advantage of our unique climate."

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I kept checking other books out thinking surely I needed more information than this thin volume provides but really this is one of the best I found. I rarely purchase a physical book these days but this one is now in my library. This might not be helpful if you're a more advanced gardener. For me as a beginner to PNW gardening and with a small growing area (p-patch) this is a perfect guide, all the critical info with little filler."; "This book is AMAZING for Puget Sound Gardening. The tables and calendar format are great."; "I LOVE how the book is succinct. Yet it does talk about the good stuff, like how to make soil, beneficial insects, how cover crops improve the soil and how the soil "works" and so on. I especially love the emphasis about working in harmony with nature and how basically it's not that hard: it's about watching your environment, not being an asshole and kind of following along. PS. it has a really great resources section at the end, with local seed catalogs/nurseries, soil testing info, suggested reference books (pruning, irrigation, canning, attracting birds, etc). PPS. I'll probably re-read this book every year."