From Powells.com
Staff Pick
Many gardening books lure you in with photos of succulent tomatoes and lush salad greens; this isn’t one of those. Instead, it’s packed full of expert advice for Pacific Northwest gardeners, from improving soil fertility to growing vegetables in our climate year-round. It's the kind of reference book you’ll come back to season after season. Recommended By JC R., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Completely revised from cover to cover, this is the 35th anniversary release of Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades, the bible to organic vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been thoroughly updated and includes a new formula for complete organic fertilizer and how to tweak it for a variety of different soil conditions, how-to sections for herbs and ornamental plants, new organization for better usability, updated sources for appropriate seed suppliers, and information about natural pest controls.
Review
"For a great schedule of what to plant and when, Steve Solomon’s Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades is a great resource—for this and all other topics related to vegetable gardening in the Pacific Northwest." Actively Northwest
Review
"[A] new, completely rewritten-from-front-to-back edition of an indispensable classic." Eugene Weekly
Review
"Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades... is our best regional reference for growing organic vegetables. When-to-plant and how-to-grow advice is unsurpassed." Sunset Magazine
About the Author
Steve Solomon has been writing Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades since 1979. He has homesteaded in Oregon because he believed in living self-sufficiently, and he is the founder of the Territorial Seed Company. Marina McShane joined the Territorial Seed Company in 1981 working in the seed room and helping in the trial grounds. That intensive immersion into the philosophy and practices of the organic gardening of vegetables still informs her approach.