Seed Library Reading Recommendations

Our library contains a plethora of books about gardening. The following list contains some of our favorite titles. Search our catalog to discover even more titles to help you start your garden.

Updated April 26, 2024
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Huntington Beach Public Library
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Apartment gardening : plants, projects, and recipes for growing food in your urban home
Pennington, Amy
Ebook
Forget the 100-mile eat-local diet; try the 300-square-foot-diet — grow squash on the windowsill, flowers in the planter box, or corn in a parking strip. Apartment Gardening details how to start a garden in the heart of the city. From building a window box to planting seeds in jars on the...

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The beginner's guide to growing heirloom vegetables : the 100 easiest-to-grow, tastiest vegetables for your garden
Iannotti, Marie.
Ebook
Growing your own vegetables has never looked, or tasted, so good. Are heirloom vegetables more difficult to grow than conventional hybrids? The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables debunks this myth by highlighting the 100 heirloom vegetables that are...

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Bringing nature home : how native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens
Tallamy, Douglas W.
Ebook
This "miracle" of a guide book shows readers how to maintain harmony within their environment (Margaret Renkl, The Washington Post). In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species...

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Fresh food from small spaces : the square-inch gardener's guide to year-round growing, fermenting, and sprouting
Ruppenthal, R. J.
Paper Book
Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a practical, comprehensive, and downright fun...

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Greenhouse gardener's companion : growing food and flowers in your greenhouse or sunspace
Smith, Shane.
Paper Book
The most comprehensive book on greenhouse gardening available today. Today, greenhouses and sunrooms are real living spaces where gardeners spend as much time with a book and a cup of coffee as they do with a watering can and a pair of pruning shears. In this fully revised edition of a best-selling...

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Heirloom vegetable gardening : a master gardener's guide to planting, growing, seed saving, and cultural history
Weaver, William Woys
Paper Book
This book is the culmination of some thirty years of firsthand knowledge of growing, tasting, and cooking with heirloom vegetables. A staunch supporter of organic gardening techniques, Will Weaver has grown every one of the featured 280 varieties of vegetables, and he walks the novice gardener...

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Mini farming : self sufficiency on a 1/4 acre
Markham, Brett L.
Paper Book
Go back to basics--compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more--with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold). Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent...

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Rebel gardening : a beginner's handbook to organic urban gardening
Vitale, Alessandro
Ebook
This is the ultimate beginner's guide to establishing and tending an organic kitchen garden in any urban space, no matter how small, written by the YouTuber and TikToker known as Spicy Moustache. Do you live in the city and yearn for the space and time to grow your own food and...

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