Armchair Gardening

Ahhhh…Armchair Gardening

When the thermometer hits 90 and the humidity is making your hair curl it may be too hot to be digging in your garden.  Still want to connect with nature but not wanting to venture outside?  Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life  is part memoir, part investigative journalism.  She and her family vow to eat only food they grow themselves or in their neighborhood.  635.0973 KIN   Checkout her website:animalvegetablemiracle.com/org/net.  

The $64.00  by William Alexander is the story of how one man nearly lost his sanity, spent a fortune and endured a Existential crisis in the quest for the perfect garden. With Bill Bryson like humor, this author pens a memoir of battling deer, weeds and weather all in search of the joy of the harvest.  635 VEGE ALE   
How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work contains shameless tricks for growing radically simple veggies, lawns, landscaping and more. Author Jeff Bredenberg takes the anxiety out of the pursuit of perfection. Cheat sheets of hard to kill plants, zero maintenance marvels and learning to embrace "Gardening mistakes" set the stage for a relaxed, low stress approach to your garden.   635.9 BRE

The Bad Tempered Gardener  by Anne Wareham ranges from the strangeness of obsessing over plants to the everyday life of deadheading, weeding and finding meaning in it all.  635.9  WAR

 The Writer in theGarden   edited by Jane Garmey will reaffirm that some of the best gardening is done while perusing a library book, feet up, lemonade in hand.  635.9 WRI

All these titles and many more can be found in the Lake Forest Library Gardening Collection.  The Librarian's at The Reference Desk will be happy to help you find them on the shelf.