{"id":2698,"date":"2017-11-17T05:35:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2021-03-08T12:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:57:54","slug":"best-books-food-gardeners-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/best-books-food-gardeners-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Best books for food gardeners in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I edited my bookshelf down to<\/span>\u00a0twenty gardening-related books. Of these twenty, three stand out: California Master Gardener Handbook<\/em>, Sunset Western Garden Book<\/em>, and The Home Orchard<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span>These three have been, over the years, the most useful to me as a gardener who grows mostly fruits and vegetables, and who lives in Southern California. <\/span><\/p>\n

Gardening is local. And the authors of these books live, maybe not down the street, but not too far from here. The importance of that cannot be overstated.<\/span><\/p>\n

To give you a little confidence in my choices, let me mention that I believe I’ve read every widely-available book that is relevant to food gardening in Southern California, including the well-known books of Pat Welsh and Robert Smaus. There are many good books out there. My top three feel more indispensable than the others; they are the three that I pull off the shelf most often.<\/p>\n

California Master Gardener Handbook<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Stacking up at about 700 pages, the California Master Gardener Handbook<\/em><\/a> reads surprisingly fast for being so detailed and having been written by a team of academics. That\u2019s because it\u2019s not written <\/span>for <\/span><\/i>academics. It\u2019s not even written for \u201cMaster Gardeners\u201d. The CMGH<\/em> functions as a manual for people training to become Master Gardeners. <\/span><\/p>\n

Because of that, the book assumes the reader has no prior horticultural knowledge. It explains everything from the ground up, and it does explain everything. The CMGH<\/em> is the most comprehensive book on gardening that I\u2019ve ever encountered. Covered: how to eliminate Bermuda grass, the life cycle of a pill bug, charts of local evapotranspiration rates, pruning blueberries, the number of calories in an average kiwifruit, climate zones for growing citrus, rootstocks commonly used for peach trees, the process for diagnosing plant problems, and on and on.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A section on aphids and other sucking insect pests.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you read this technical but very accessible book, you truly get an education in all things gardening (all oriented toward California conditions). When I did my Master Gardener training in 2012, our first class was taught by Dennis Pittenger of UC Riverside, who is the editor of this\u00a0Master Gardener Handbook<\/em>. Throughout the training classes, I took notes in the margins of my Handbook<\/em> (see above). These days I continue to refer to them. Opened often are the chapters on water, soil and fertilizer, as well as citrus and avocado trees. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sunset Western Garden Book<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Sunset Western Garden Book<\/em> is sometimes called the Bible of gardening here in California. Go to your local retail nursery and you\u2019re sure to see a well-worn copy of it on the service desk. It\u2019s another thick book — another 700 pages plus. But it\u2019s about 50 percent photos; it\u2019s more like an overgrown magazine than a textbook. It has short sections on garden design, climate, plant choices for various situations and desired effects, weeds, pests, fertilizing, watering, planting, but the bulk of the book is an A-Z guide to growing 9,000 different plants which do well somewhere in the western United States (west of the Rocky Mountains).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sunset Western Garden Book<\/em> offers growing information about specific fruit trees and vegetables in this A-Z guide, and that is its prime benefit to<\/span>\u00a0food gardeners of Southern California. For example, there are five pages on apples, including a chart of apple varieties that do well in different subclimates of Southern California. And there are also six pages of charts showing when to plant different vegetables according to exactly where you live in Southern California.<\/p>\n

So, whereas you\u2019re going to use the California Master Gardener Handbook<\/em> to better understand the way a peach tree is grown using a rootstock and scion, you\u2019re going to refer to the Sunset Western Garden Book<\/em>\u00a0to consider which variety of peach tree to grow in your particular subclimate (“Sunset Zone”).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Home Orchard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Speaking of peach trees, there is no better resource for how to plant, train, prune, water and fertilize them in California than The Home Orchard<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Ditto for growing all of the other types of deciduous fruit and nut trees: apples, pomegranates, plums, figs, pecans, almonds, apricots, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Home Orchard<\/em> is published by the University of California and is written by a group of experts who live in different parts of our state. I find the book\u2019s presentation exceptionally clear, with helpful photographs of things like a fruiting spur on an apple branch. In addition, I appreciate that the book explains fundamentals like planting a bare root tree while also diving into more advanced topics like grafting (again with excellent accompanying photos). I can\u2019t recall a time when I needed help with an issue related to growing deciduous fruit trees and had to look beyond the pages of this single book.<\/span><\/p>\n

(I recently wrote a post giving a longer review of The Home Orchard <\/em>here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But what if I could only keep one gardening book on my shelf? Ouch! Even the thought hurts. But if I had to choose,\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019d\u00a0hold onto the California Master Gardener Handbook <\/em>until the very end.<\/p>\n

Honorable mentions<\/strong><\/p>\n

As gardening in Southern California revolves around adding water, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention these additional two (actually, three) books that I have found very useful in learning how to make the most of our paltry rainfall and in learning how to reuse household water in the garden.<\/p>\n

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Brad Lancaster\u2019s series of books titled\u00a0Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond<\/a><\/em>\u00a0demonstrate his first-hand experience and are rich with diagrams and photographs.\u00a0Volume 1<\/em>\u00a0is an overview of principles and methods for \u201cwelcoming rain into your life.\u201d\u00a0Volume 2<\/em>\u00a0has the subtitle of \u201cWater-Harvesting Earthworks,\u201d by which is meant things like ditches for water to pool in, rock dams across gullies, and half-moon shaped berms to prevent runoff. If I had to choose only one, I\u2019d go with\u00a0Volume 1<\/em>. While Lancaster lives in Tuscon, Arizona, where rain falls primarily in the summer, we in dry-summer Southern California can still apply much from these books with only minor adjustments.<\/p>\n

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Art Ludwig has been practicing what he preaches in Southern California for decades, and his book\u00a0Create an Oasis with Greywater<\/em><\/a>\u00a0can help you skip over common errors in attempting to reuse household water in your yard. The information in the book is grounded in Ludwig\u2019s personal experience and not, say, the unrealistic recommendations of academics or bureaucrats. The text is permeated with helpful numbers, drawings, and real-life examples. Perhaps the title is the only part of the book that I\u2019m not satisfied with, as the only way you\u2019re going to use graywater to create an “oasis” \u2014 like the one shown on the book\u2019s cover \u2014 is if you turn on your faucets and use a lot of imported water in the first place (and therefore pay for all that piped-in water).<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I wholeheartedly agree with this quotation from the book: \u201cLifestyle change is far and away the best way to conserve resources . . . If you can choose between reducing and reusing, reducing is the priority.\u201d In a sense, it undermines the thesis of the book and yet Ludwig is honest and willing to say it.<\/p>\n

On a personal note: Before I gardened in Southern California, I lived and gardened in Africa<\/a>, where capturing rainfall and reusing water was the norm. I’d read no books about it; I just followed the lead of the Africans among whom I lived. So I brought that raw experience back home to Southern California and draw from it when I assess books like the two above — and indeed, when I consider the quality of the advice of my top three favorite books, as well.<\/p>\n

You might also like to read my posts:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Teaming with Microbes: a book review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading my grandma’s 1961 Sunset Western Garden Book (My, how things have changed)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Davis Garden Show — best radio podcast for Southern California gardening<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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