Mother Earth News Wiser Living Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times, Book 5, (Paperback)

from Saponaria

I love this book. I have heard Steve Solomon called arrogant but I did not find him to be that way. He is however a glass is half empty kind of guy. I appreciate it. So many gardening books are so unrealistic leading people to believe they can grow anything if they only do a simply X.Y and Z. It ...

from peacegarden

While I am not using all of his suggestions (particularly the spacing) I think it is a wonderful book. Use it (and COF) all the time. I believe his advice will be especially useful as external inputs become scarce or prohibitively expensive. His take on seeds and seed companies if spot on.

from Amelia_Smith

I don't know why I'm suddenly so into reading gardening books, but this was one that I couldn't put down. The author is quite opinionated, which made for livelier reading than it might have been if he'd stuck to presenting his information in a more neutral tone. I don't actually have a garden yet...

from ChrisMarin

As you can see by my library I have collected most of the important food growing books. Gardening When It Counts is in my opinion highly valuable as the author not only proposes new information but repudiates the old oft repeated information with technical and logical reasons why these ideas shou...

from jaygheiser

I haven't had a chance to try out what he suggests, but he makes some compelling arguments that my Square Foot Garden was counterproductive.