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Solomon, Stephen J. _Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades.
_Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1989.
The complete regional gardening textbook.
-------------------------. _Backyard Composting._ Portland, Ore.:
George van Patten Publishing, 1992.
Especially useful for its unique discussion of the overuse of
compost and a nonideological approach to raising the most nutritious
food possible.
Stout, Ruth. _Gardening Without Work for the Aging, the Busy and the
Indolent. _Old Greenwich, Conn.: Devin-Adair, 1961.
Stout presents the original thesis of permanent mulching.
Turner, Frank Newman. _Fertility, Pastures and Cover Crops Based on
Nature's Own Balanced Organic Pasture Feeds._ San Diego: Rateaver,
1975. Reprinted from the 1955 Faber and Faber, edition.
Organic farming using long rotations, including deeply rooted green
manures developed to a high art. Turner maintained a productive
organic dairy farm using subsoiling and long rotations involving
tilled crops and semipermanent grass/herb mixtures.
ven der Leeden, Frits, Fred L. Troise, and David K. Todd. _The Water
Encyclopedia, Second Edition. _Chelsea, Mich.: Lewis Publishers,
1990.
Reference data concerning every possible aspect of water.
Weaver, John E., and William E. Bruner. _Root Development of
Vegetable Crops._ New York: McGraw-Hill, 1927.
Contains very interesting drawings showing the amazing depth and
extent that vegetable roots are capable of in favorable soil.
Widtsoe, John A. _Dry Farming: A System of Agriculture for Countries
Under Low Rainfall. _New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.
The best single review ever made of the possibilities of dry farming
and dry gardening, sagely discussing the scientific basis behind the
techniques. The quality of Widtsoe's understanding proves that newer
is not necessarily better.
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