Sprouts and Seedlings!

This site is brand new, so we’re just getting started with lots more to come. We’re so glad you’re here and hope you’ll check back in to see what’s growing.

Meanwhile, we invite you to enjoy the articles we have thus far, then visit the Planting for Retirement Facebook Group. Also, we’d love to see you over on our sister website, GardensAll.com.

For Starters, here are the best selling gardening books on both the Gardens All and Planting for Retirement communities.

Best Gardening Books

Here’s an evolving list of our favorite vegetable gardening books. This list is culled from our favorites and that of the PlantingForRetirement and GardensAll communities, and are listed here, alphabetically by title.

The Have More Plan, by Ed Robinson and Carolyn Robinson

The Market Gardner: a Successful Growers Handbook for Small Scale Organic Farming, by Jean-Martin Fortier

Mini Farming: Self Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre, by Brett L. Markham

New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening: 14 Volume Set

The New Organic Grower, by Eliot Coleman

The New Square Foot Gardening Book, by

The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and borrowed Land, by Curtis Allen Stone

Best Gardening Videos

Back to Eden Film on DVD

Back to Eden – free video clips

The Urban Farmer Video Channel with Curtis Stone

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