Gardening Books

The major source that Master Gardeners use for gardening information is not a book, but rather the Agricultural and Natural Resources (ANR) website: 

• http://ucanr.org

Questions on edible gardening, our favorite is the Vegetable Research and Information Center, which includes many links to specific subjects:

• http://vric.ucdavis.edu/main/veg_info.htm

The California Garden Web focuses on sustainable gardening practices and uses a question and answer format to present solutions: 

• https://cagardenweb.ucanr.edu

For information on garden pests, master gardeners visit the site of the statewide integrated pest management (IPM) program. On that site is a section on Home, Garden, Turf and Landscape Pests is an excellent source for home gardeners:

• http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/

And finally, some of our ‘go to’ books are those written especially for the southern California climate, such as:

• Sunset Western Garden Book
• Pat Welsh’s Southern California Gardening
• Robert Smaus’ 52 Weeks in the California Garden
• Rosalind Creasey’s series of books on edible gardening (such as The Edible Salad Garden, The Edible Italian Garden, and many more)
• The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash
• The Bountiful Container by Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey