Not mentioned by anyone else, I'd add 'Dr Shewell Cooper's Basic book of Vegetable Growing' which, to me, challenged some of the myths of gardening. Published 1972. Beyond that, especially in terms of non-scientific methods, never be afraid to take your own path?
Being a bit later to it all, Mark Diacono books - initially his River Cottage handbook 'Veg Patch' and later 'The new kitchen garden', although I have quite a lot by others, including one of John Seymour's, one by Gay Search, Monty's 'Fork to fork' and by asking my Mum when she was alive. Jekka McVicar's herb books also figure quite large in my culinary plant growing
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
My vegetable garden bible was "Food from your Garden" from the Readers Digest. I started my first vegetable garden 45 years ago, after we had bought and renovated our first house. I loved that book, great to have recipes too. I bought a couple more from charity book sales to give to two of my children.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”