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What is your favourite gardening book?
KC15
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My favourite book by far is RHS Grow Your Own: Crops in Pots: with 30 step-by-step projects using vegetables, fruit and herbs (Royal Horticultural Society Grow Your Own) by Kay Maguire
It's perfect for me as I grow everything in containers 
What's yours?
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Mine is another RHS book Step-by-Step Gardening Techniques. I picked it up for a £1 at a charity stall, it's full of really clear illustrations and instructions on just what to do when growing fruit and veg.
Lots but have just got Myths and Misconceptions by Charles Dowding which makes very interesting reading
Can I name two? If I could only keep two, it would be the Hessayon paperback Vegetable and Herb Expert and the RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers.
Carol Klein's Grow your own Garden probably comes off the shelf for consultation most - it even has the muddy fingerprints to prove it
. Bit like the best recipes always have a few splashes on
As well as the usual biology, plant biology, chemistry texts, I like:
Seeds : ecology, biogeography, and evolution of dormancy and germination
Carol C. Baskin, Jerr
582.0333 Bas
The encyclopedia of seeds : science, technology and uses
edited by Michael Black, J. Derek Bew
Ref 631.521 Bla
Physiology of seeds : an introduction to the experimental study of seed and germination problems Crocker, William.
582.0333 Cro
Seeds : physiology of development and germination
J. Derek Bewley and Michael Black.
582.0333 Bew
The germination of seeds
A.M. Mayer and A. Poljakoff-Mayber.
581.333 May
Physiology and biochemistry of seeds in relation to germination
J. D. Bewley, M. Black. Bewley, J. Derek, 1943-
582.0333 Bew
Recent advances in the development and germination of seeds
edited by Raymond B. Taylorson. International Workshop on Seeds (3rd : 1989 : Williamsburg, Va.)
571.862 Int
Seeds : biology, development and ecology / edited by Steve W. Adkins, Sarah E. Ashmore, Sheldon
631.521 Adk
Seed to seed : seed saving techniques for the vegetable gardener
by Suzanne Ashworth ; photogr Ashworth, Suzanne. 635.0421 Ash
Soil science
Hartemink, Alfred E. , 1964- / edited by Alfred E. Hartemink, Alex B. McBratney and Robert E. White.
Soils : genesis and geomorphology
Schaetzl, Randall J., 1957- / Randall J. Schaetzl and Sharon Anderson.
Advanced techniques in soil microbiology
Varma, A. (Ajit), 1939- / Ajit Varma, Ralf Oelmüller (eds.).
Life: The Science of Biology (Purves et al)
Chemistry The Central Science (Brown et al)
Teach Yourself Geology
That Seed to Seed one is listed in error.
The book on the left.... These are both Readers Digest Garden, Plant and Flower Encyclopedias, but the one on the left is borrowed from my mum and is the 1972 revision. It's spine is to pot, it has dirty marks where it's been well thumbed and is looking a bit tatty...and I love it. It's been my mums garden bible for longer than I've been on the planet!
My Dad had the book on the left in the 70s Tootles
I have both of those as well
I couldn't name just one favourite gardening book
I have quite a lot of reference books but for a interesting read I like Cottage Garden Flowers by Margery Fish.