The Able Gardener: Overcoming Barriers of Age and Physical Limitations by Kathleen Yeomans.
Nurse and gardener Yeomans covers general aspects of gardening while emphasizing adaptive techniques such as using raised beds, back-saving tools, and easy-care plants. If the gardener is visually impaired, she suggests designing with plants that are fragrant, textured, edible, or even audible. Included are exercises for gardeners and mail order sources for plants, seeds, and supplies including adaptive tools. RC 40311.

Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities: A Guide to Methods, Tools, and Plants by Janeen R. Adil.
An avid gardener provides tips and techniques for adapting garden format and methods for people with limited mobility. Explains advantages of containers, raised beds, and vertical gardens. Chapters discuss appropriate tools; choosing vegetables, herbs, flowers, vines, and ornamentals; and starting children in gardening. RC 52241.

Accessible Gardening: Tips and Techniques for Seniors and the Disabled by Joann Woy.
Advises gardeners with special needs on ideas, tools, and methods. Topics include garden design and layout, raised beds, container and tabletop gardening, easy composting, watering, lawn care, and accessories to facilitate physical tasks. An appendix lists sources of tools, supplies, and information. RC 49080.

The American Horticultural Society Gardening Manual.
Practical, hands-on advice on every aspect of gardening from design and planning to planting and maintenance. Discusses flowers, lawns, and vegetables. Includes information on constructing decks, patios, fences, ponds, and other yard features. RC 54756.

The Apartment Gardener by Stan and Floss Dworkin.
Easily understandable guide to windowsill gardening. The authors prescribe treatment for ill and failing plants. List centers for horticulture information. RC 9545.

The City Gardener's Handbook: From Balcony to Backyard by Linda Yang.
Here is a practical guide for gardening in containers and small spaces. The author's column has appeared in the Thursday Home Section of the New York Times since 1979. Her suggestions are based on personal experience and advice from the hundreds of gardeners she has interviewed from all over the country. RC 32077.

Crockett's Flower Garden by James Underwood Crockett.
Designed to be used by the novice planning a first garden as well as by experienced gardeners, this work consists of nine monthly chapters, February through October, and a tenth entitled 'After Frost.' Each of the monthly chapters contains a series of entries in alphabetical order covering individual plants which need attention during the month. RC 21418, BR 5928.

Crockett's Indoor Garden by James Underwood Crockett.
Crockett brings his experience and wisdom indoors with this month-by-month guide to caring for houseplants. Features 130 of the author's personal favorites selected according to the ease of culture and ready availability to indoor gardeners. RC 12837.

Crockett's Victory Garden by James Underwood Crockett.
Offers a month-by-month guide to gardening. He includes directions for growing vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruit trees, lawns, and houseplants. RC 12317.

The Enabling Garden: A Guide to Lifelong Gardening by Gene Rothert.
A step-by-step guide to barrier-free gardening for people with disabilities and older adults. Provides a checklist for assessing one's gardening abilities, then offers advice on selecting appropriate structures, tools, equipment, plants, and garden designs. RC 43253.

The Epicurean Gardener by John F. Adams.
Relates the pleasures of gardening and of enjoying the vegetables grown in one's backyard. The author explains that gardening is sometimes a kind of happy accident; skill and experience help, but natural forces, some of them mysterious, are doing the work. Discusses the basics of planting, fertilizing, and weeding for a large variety of vegetables. RC 29122.

The Essential Earthman by Henry Mitchell.
Selection of gardening columns written for the Washington Post, offering advice on garden chores, plants to choose, landscape design, and tips for the novice and seasoned gardener alike. Entertaining and especially pertinent for city gardeners. RC 17855.

The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch.
Damrosch offers a comprehensive book for the gardener that explains garden planning, plant care, and gardening equipment. Detailed chapters on the different categories of plants such as annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruits, shrubs, wildflowers, and even house plants are included along with general advice on how to make use of and care for these varieties. RC 29616, BR 7795.

The Garden Problem Solver by the Reader’s Digest Association.
A guide to diagnosing and treating garden ailments that occur among flowers, vegetables, herbs, shrubs, lawns, and trees, including fruit and nut trees. Discusses various problems that affect your garden and what causes them, and offers solutions to aid in eliminating them. RC 53450.

Garden Way's Joy of Gardening by Dick Raymond.
A step-by-step guide to making vegetable gardening truly fun and productive. The author, who calls himself a lazy gardener, has perfected unbelievably easy ways to plant vegetables, to harvest, to get rid of weeds, and to improve soil. This book is a companion to the syndicated television series of the same name. RC 21472, BR 6023.

The Green Guide to Herb Gardening: Featuring the Ten Most Popular Herbs by Deborah Harding.
Provides the description, history, magical qualities, and folklore for the herbs basil, calendula, chamomile, chives, garlic, lemon balm, mint, oregano, parsley, and thyme. Offers tips on growing, harvesting, and storing them. Lists remedial, culinary, cosmetic, aromatic, ornamental, and other uses for each plant. Includes recipes. RC 50470.

The Houseplant Encyclopedia by Maggie Stuckey.
Explains how to grow over 80 kinds of indoor plants, and includes techniques for watering, repotting, and cultivating. Offers tips for purchasing the right flora for each location in the house and suggests ideas for terrariums and dish gardens. RC 55960.

How to Have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening by Ruth Stout.
The author left New York City for the Connecticut countryside in 1929 and began experimenting in the garden. Her anecdotes record her trials, tribulations, and the new methods she devised to simplify her work. RC 53896.

The Impatient Gardener by Jerry Baker.
A prominent gardening expert offers savvy advice on growing a healthy lawn, thriving trees and shrubs, gorgeous flowers, and mouth-watering vegetables. Emphasizes proper preparation and care for gardening success without a green thumb. RC 21013.

The Mother Earth News A to Z Home Gardener's Handbook.
Guide to raising vegetables from asparagus to zucchini. Includes information on natural insect control, gardening in extreme climates, and the preservation and storage of foods. RC 19175.

The New York Times Book of Annuals and Perennials by Joan Lee Faust.
An introduction to the delights of outdoor flower gardening by the gardening editor of the New York Times. Gives the basics of successful flower care including how to plan, to plant, and to maintain a garden. Also includes the author's personal selection of 100 popular and successful annuals and perennials with a full prescription for the care of each. RC 22051.

A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden by Sydney Eddison.
The author considers a garden a very personal creation evolving from struggles with a particular piece of earth, in a specific climate, and mirroring the gardener's personality and prejudices. She shares the colors and fragrances of her own garden that, like a patchwork quilt, is made up of bits and pieces of other lives and gardens, each with its own story. RC 32917.

The Plant Doctor by Richard Nicholls.
Easy-to-understand, no-nonsense approach to tending ailing plants and keeping healthy plants in good condition. Among topics covered are repotting, feeding, soil and light conditions, humidity, pests, and chemical sprays. RC 11054.

Quick and Easy Indoor Topiary: Crafting and Decorating With Nature by Chris Jones.
A guide to growing and shaping plants into beautiful indoor sculptures. Covers the mechanics of "nonplant backbone," plant basics, and techniques for making the suggested designs or developing one's own creations. RC 47861.

The Self-Sufficient Gardener: A Complete Guide to Growing and Preserving All Your Own Food by John Seymour.
Includes vegetables, fruits, and herbs and provides information on soil, climate, cultivation, pests and diseases, harvesting, and storing. Also explains how to salt, dry, pickle, can, or freeze produce. RC 21141.

The Ultimate Container Gardener: All You Need to Know to Create Plantings for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter by Stephanie Donaldson.
Describes how to display flowers, herbs, and other plants in baskets, window boxes, or hanging containers for both inside and outside the home. Advice with instructions for year-round cultivation and selection of items for color, fragrance, and location. RC 54750, BR 14261.

Vegetable Gardening by the editors of Sunset books and Sunset magazine.
Step-by-step guide for growing vegetables in a window box or a large garden. Provides instruction for buying seeds, preparing the soil, making compost, and double digging. Includes a quick and easy planting chart. RC 14655.