Introduction
Planting the Seeds
Cultivating the Garden
The Cultivators
Reaping the Harvest
Harrowsmith
The New Experts
Their Own Gardens
The Garden in Literature
Gardening from Sea to Sea to Sea
All Kinds of Gardens in All Kinds of Spaces
Bibliography
Photos by Beth Powning
Other Gardening Sites
Acknowledgements |
Reaping the Harvest: Gardening Today
All Kinds of Gardens in All Kinds of Spaces
When Lois Wilson put her book together in the late 1960s, she was only able to recommend one Canadian title (Ornamental Shrubs for Canada from the Queen's Printer) among the 43 other books and series included. Things have changed. By the late 1990s, it has become almost impossible to keep up with the new Canadian gardening titles that appear each year. They seem to cover every conceivable gardening topic, from gardens for birds to gardens for children.
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Wilson, Lois.
Chatelaine's Gardening Book: The Complete Guide to Garden Success.
Toronto: Doubleday, 1970. |
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Fawcett, Brian.
The Compact Garden Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space.
Camden East, Ont.: Camden House, 1992. |
| The story of the "biggest pumpkin in the world" and the industry it has created. |
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Kingsbury, Al.
The Pumpkin King: Hobby to Business: Howard Dill and the Atlantic Giant.
Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot, 1992. |
| "This book is not meant to be a complete botanical treatise. Its purpose is to awake the curiosity of children by introducing them to vegetable life." [translation] |
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Beauchamp-Richards, Huguette and Robert Richards.
Jardinez avec le Professeur Scientifix: Des expériences pour toutes les saisons.
Sillery, Québec: Québec Science, 1982, Introduction. |
| The story of food, the soil in which it grows, and the organic approach to gardening to introduce children to food and where it comes from. |
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Savage, Candace.
Get Growing: How the Earth Feeds Us.
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991. |
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