If you're thinking of turning your yard into an edible landscape, there are many gardening books that can help. Here are reviews of some recommended titles.

The growing season brings a rich assortment of fresh garden produce for our tables. Any surplus that can't be consumed fresh can be preserved for later use. Here are some cookbooks and food preservation titles that will be helpfulto gardeners.

Among the flowering crabs are native species as well as heirloom varieties.

There are many quilt books available. Some of these will have special appeal to gardeners. Here are reviews of some wonderful titles that I found inspiring.

Napoleon may have cast Empress Josephine aside for a trophy wife. Yet, he couldn´t erase her influence in the world of gardening. To this day, we still have plants named in her honor.

Gardeners who sew can find many uses for garden motifs and themes. These appear in all sorts of craft projects. Here are reviews of some excellent sewing books that gardeners will love.

The McIntosh apple is now a classic apple and remains one of the most popular all purpose varieties.

There are many kind of craft books that are suitable for gardeners. Many of the quilting titles will appeal to those interested in flowers, plants, and nature. Here are reviews of some titles I find especially appealing.

If I could only have one crab apple, it would be the Hewes. This is an outstanding heirloom variety.

Bring the beauty of the garden indoors with garden quilts. While gardening lends inspiring motifs for garden quilts, quilting offers a garden-related activity we can pursue when bad weather keeps us out of the garden.