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The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques
This comprehensive, feature-packed book shows how you can create more beauty around your home, grow delicious healthful produce, and save money and natural resources all at the same time - by landscaping with edible plants. It includes a 160-page "Encyclopedia of Edibles" with detailed horticultural information, landscaping and culinary uses, seed sources, and re...more
Paperback, 394 pages
Published
June 12th 1982
by Sierra Club Books
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I think this is one of the better vegetable garden books I've come across. It was written in the eighties and everything listed is mail-order a lot of the information is timeless. There are several different tables which cover everything from choices for small gardens to food plants that are grown as perennials.
I like her landscape design ideas, although it assumes that you are starting with a blank slate, and to some extent, an unlimited budget. Still, her designs are a good start...more
I like her landscape design ideas, although it assumes that you are starting with a blank slate, and to some extent, an unlimited budget. Still, her designs are a good start...more
I was most impressed by the plant encyclopedia in the back of the book. From that, I compiled a long list of plants that we'd like to have in our garden/landscaping. I especially appreciated her difficulty rating for each plant - i.e. how easy or difficult is the plant to both take care of and harvest. It's nice to know what we're getting into. The book is from 1982 so it seems a little outdated, but on the whole, it was helpful. I also really loved the drawings of each plant - they were be...more
I'm reading an updated and completely reworked version, published 2011. The pictures are inspiring, and she gives good ideas for plant combinations that would look gorgeous next to each other. Her plant encyclopedia in the back of the book lists the attribute of each plant but also the difficulty to grow, likely pest problems, and other very useful information.
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The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping: Home Landscaping with Food-Bearing Plants and Resource-Saving Techniques by Rosalind Creasy (1982)
Really great practical guide. Good design ideas and great encyclopedia of plants.
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I've been planting edibles with ornamentals now for quite a few years. i'm looking forward to learning some new tips and ideas when I get this book from the library.
Exciting approach to practical landscaping and gardening for the home edibles enthusiast. Found much of the information extremely helpful. She is a bit of an environmentalist nut when it comes to fertilizer use though.
A must-have book for those of us learning permaculture techniques.
I'm not really a gardener, but creasy is a genius
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