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Hill/ Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, chronicles the seasonal progression of a subsistence garden. These two Vermont gentlemen raise their own livestock for the table and discourse about their crops, garden and life on the land with great wit and style, accompanied by mouth-watering photographs. A Gem.
• Also in the gorgeous and inspirational vein, Louisa Jones's The Art of French Vegetable Gardening offers interesting text and sumptuous color pictorials of lush. French kitchen gardens. These plots have little in common with American row-type vegetable patches. No, these are Jardins, most outfitted with stone paths, raised beds, walls, hedges and artfully disposed combinations of vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers. Swoon.
• Heirloom Vegetable Gardening, written by master gardener William Woys Weaver, is a masterpiece of historical vegetable reference and uncommon cultivation tips and tidbits. If you don’t get excited by the color photographs and descriptions of such vegetable varieties as Howling Mob corn, Red Drumhead cabbage. Blue Shackamaxon beans and Listada di Gandia eggplant, well consider taking a looong vacation from vegetable raising until your sense of color, taste, wonder, etc. returns! Includes sources for the rare seeds and plants mentioned in the book.
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