Eco-Reads

Interest in eco-friendly gardening practices remains high, and consumers are working to learn organic growing techniques. To help you spread the word, Garden Center has teamed up with St. Lynn’s Press to offer retailers a 40-percent discount on orders of 25 books or more for resale at your garden center. To learn more about these wholesale packages, visit www.GardenCenterMagazine.com and click on the book promo located on the home page.

Grow Organic
Over 250 Tips and Ideas for Growing Flowers, Veggies, Lawns and More; (For First-Timers and Old-Timers Alike); By Doug Oster and Jessica Waller; 224 pages, paperback

Where should gardeners go for “the real dirt” on up-to-date, easy-to-understand organic practices? In their book “Grow Organic,” co-authors Doug Oster and Jessica Walliser offer essential insights to help gardeners of all skill levels achieve their organic potential.
 

Good Bug, Bad Bug
Who’s Who, What They Do, And How to Manage Them Organically; (All You Need To Know About the Insects in Your Garden); By Jessica Walliser; 91 pages, paperback (with concealed spiral binding)

No more guessing who’s coming to dinner in the garden. Essential bug ID and management info for 36 common garden insects (the good and the bad). Full-color photos and packaged with concealed spiral binding.

We Can (All) Live Green
Simple Steps to Save Money, Stay Healthy and Support Our Planet; By Jennifer Noonan; Gift-bound book

This is the green book for Middle Americans who make their buying choices based primarily on cost, folks who’d like to do their part for the environment but need to be shown why it makes economic sense to do so. In every chapter—on food, health, clothing, travel, around-the-house, work, school, community, and more—the author provides cost-saving tips to guide consumers to make “green” choices that are also budget-friendly and can even create cash savings.

Tomatoes Garlic Basil
The Simple Pleasures of Growing and Enjoying Your Garden’s Most Versatile Veggies; By Doug Oster; 240 pages, paperback

Doug Oster, popular radio talk show gardening expert and newspaper garden columnist, gets more questions about tomatoes than any other vegetable. What’s No. 2? Garlic. Basil is not far behind for its delicious versatility in cooking. It’s time for a book about these three favorites of the American kitchen. Doug leads his readers step-by-step with his trademark “how I do it” humor and Julia Child honesty—with a bonus prize of 30 delicious, simple recipes as a reward for their labors.

The Green Journal
A Personal Planbook of Eco-Friendly Tips and Ideas; 160 pages, hardback

The Green Journal is an easy-access idea bank for the Green lifestyle: a collection of tips, brief essays, and easily implemented projects of all sizes and time-frames—with space for the reader to enter his or her own discoveries and epiphanies as they unfold. Not a blank-page journal, but an upbeat, encouraging companion on the reader’s own journey to a more eco-aware future. Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink; lay-flat binding and ribbon.