In Charlie's recent book he uncovers the joys of gardening for many people.

Passion for gardening touches each of us in a different way, and in The Ultimate Gardener you'll meet others who share your zeal. Laugh at anecdotes of gardeners who try to cut corners and end up making extra work for themselves, and pets who fail to realize that gardens are off-limits. Share the joy every gardener feels when those first tiny sprouts pop out each spring, or your prize tomatoes make it through a midsummer storm. Whether your garden is a tiny rooftop terrace or acreage as far as the eye can see, every gardener will recognize the infatuation with growing things that winds through each and every story.

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Edible Landscaping with Charlie

Sign up for Charlie's free Edible Landscaping e-newsletter through the National Gardening Association. Each month Charlie covers a range of topics about growing fruits, berries, vegetables, herbs, and flowers in your yard.

Check out the Edible Resources Guide for listings of companies selling a wide varieties of vegetable, herb, and edible flower seeds and plants, fruit trees, berry bushes, and products.

Charlie's latest book is a second edition of the classic that he wrote 10 years ago.

For vegetable gardeners, the right information is especially important, because if you don't end up with edible food on the table, you've failed. Charlie Nardozzi and the National Gardening Association editors seem comfortingly aware of this fact, but they also want to make vegetable gardening fun and interesting, and to that end there's a lot more here than just the standard tomatoes and zucchini. Bok choy, fingerling potatoes, kabocha squash, daikon radishes--they've included just about every vegetable you might be able to think of, with pithy recommendations of the tastiest and easiest-to-grow varieties.

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