The Weedless Garden
I just finished reading Weedless Gardening, and I highly recommend it. It is written in a light, breezy style, with lots of well explained and supported advice. Reich covers his concept of weedless gardening in about 1/3 of the book, then he gives advice on a wide variety of other aspects of gardening for the other 2/3 while reinforcing the key concepts.
He describes fertilizing options (organic and inorganic), provides several easy to use calculations for watering and fertilizing, and is the first writer I’ve read who admits that the large quantities of compost everyone recommends need to actually come from somewhere besides domestic vegetable cuttings (and he gives advice on how to locate inexpensive sources). He also repeats key concepts in different contexts to improve cognitive understanding.
His section on drip irrigation would have saved me 3 hours of online research and planning if I had only read this book soon enough! Weedless Gardening is remarkably practical and easy to understand. It also amps up my enthusiasm for gardening!
