The Organic Gardeners Handbook

Frank Tozer

An expert’s advice on the art and science of organic gardening.

The Organic Gardeners Handbook tells you everything you need to know to create a highly productive vegetable garden. Combining European tradition with American creativity, it covers the art and science of organic gardening with a depth that is rarely seen in contemporary books. There are chapters on every aspect of organic vegetable gardening, soil dynamics, soil management, cultivation, composting, crop planning, raising seedlings, watering, harvesting, seed saving, greenhouses, and much more. Whether you are a complete novice and need your hand held through every step, or a veteran gardener with a permanent layer of soil under your fingernails, you will find this book both helpful and informative. A book that will soon be covered in dirty fingerprints, The Organic Gardeners Handbook is a companion to The Vegetable Growers Handbook.

About the Author

Frank Tozer has been an avid gardener for 30 years. He is obsessed with food plants, and is passionately interested in developing a sustainable way for humans to live on the earth using plants. His 21⁄2-acre garden in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California is an evolving mix of French intensive vegetable garden, English cottage garden, edible landscape, wild (edible) plant garden, forest garden, and more. He is the author of The Uses of Wild Plants.