Gardening: Required reading for your garden library
By Henry Homeyer
I know that many people especially gardeners under the age of 40 use the internet to find the answers to their questions. That is fine, but the internet is full of “fake news” and spurious assertions. I do use the web, but if I want to learn about something in-depth, I reach for a book. People who write books generally write about things they know. Gardening books are written by gardeners.
Some years ago I taught a class in sustainable gardening at Granite State College, part of the University of New Hampshire system. I asked my students to buy The Garden Primer, by Barbara Damrosch. This paperback is a compact 800 pages of readable, educational information about nearly every aspect of gardening. It came out in 2008 but is still in print. Everyone could benefit from owning it.