Especially useful for its unique discussion of the overuse of
compost and a nonideological approach to raising the most nutritious
food possible.
Stout, Ruth. _Gardening Without Work for the Aging, the Busy and the
Indolent. _Old Greenwich, Conn.: Devin-Adair, 1961.
Stout presents the original thesis of permanent mulching.
Turner, Frank Newman. _Fertility, Pastures and Cover Crops Based on
Nature's Own Balanced Organic Pasture Feeds._ San Diego: Rateaver,
1975. Reprinted from the 1955 Faber and Faber, edition.
Organic farming using long rotations, including deeply rooted green
manures developed to a high art. Turner maintained a productive
organic dairy farm using subsoiling and long rotations involving
tilled crops and semipermanent grass/herb mixtures.
ven der Leeden, Frits, Fred L. Troise, and David K. Todd. _The Water
Encyclopedia, Second Edition. _Chelsea, Mich.: Lewis Publishers,
1990.
Reference data concerning every possible aspect of water.
Weaver, John E., and William E. Bruner. _Root Development of
Vegetable Crops._ New York: McGraw-Hill, 1927.
Contains very interesting drawings showing the amazing depth and
extent that vegetable roots are capable of in favorable soil.
Widtsoe, John A. _Dry Farming: A System of Agriculture for Countries
Under Low Rainfall. _New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.
The best single review ever made of the possibilities of dry farming
and dry gardening, sagely discussing the scientific basis behind the
techniques.
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