Here is a roundup of recent gardening books from the Joe Gardener Podcast. I like to do a gardening book around January each year so this will give me some new ones to think about. Yes, you can accuse me of being mostly an armchair gardener if you want. I have a garden but I take a mostly laissez-faire approach, especially this past year when work, school, family, and life have conspired to take up 150% of my available time (outside of sleep and eating, two things I never skimp on.) Here are a few that caught my eye:

• How Can I Help – a new one on ecological gardening from Doug Tallamy
• Nature’s Action Guide by Sarah Jayne – sounds kind of similar actually
• Several books on seed saving, a topic I have always been interested in.
• Fruit Tree Pruning: The Science and Art of Cultivating Healthy Fruit Trees by Susan Poizner – I have two fruit trees. They grow a significant amount of Asian pears and persimmons each year. This makes the neighborhood squirrels very happy.
• The New Organic Grower: A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener by Eliot Coleman – a classic. I used to have a copy when I was young and thought I might grow up to live on a piece of land and have some time on my hands. Which I remember asking a bookstore to order for me before Amazon or even the internet existed.
• Plant Grow Harvest Repeat by Meg McAndrews Cowden – “the book on succession planting”
• The Vegetable Gardening Book: Your Complete Guide to Growing an Edible Organic Garden from Seed to Harvest by Joe Lamp’l – the podcast guy
• Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden by Jessica Walliser – pretty self-explanatory right?