A really inspiring female gardener for me was/is Liz Zorab. She wrote the book Grounded. It's not so much a reference book but gives a lot of advice about gardening embedded in an inspirational story.
Hello from Sweden! Have just found your channel and am so delighted, especially over this theme. One of my Swedish garden book favorites is Lena Israelsson. Unfortunately, her (in my opinion) best book does not seem to have been translated: "Gormetträdgården" where she describes by far the best varieties of a certain vegetable and vividly tells why. She describes fantastic encounters with a farmer in a remote village somewhere in the world. How the vegetable should be grown and above all, how it can be cooked. Thanks for the book tips! I'll start with yours.
Thank you, Vera. I have ordered 4 of the books you recommended including Susan Campbell's, History of Kitchen Gardening, which I found on Abe Books. Many of their books are used, but I have found them to be in good and usuable shape and very cheap.
i had the pleasure of working on joy larkoms new garden a few years ago in cork, a great garden writer, shawna coronado is another american garden writer worth looking up, by the way, on your recommendation im trying brads atomic grape this year, happy gardening ;o)
You are my first Garden Shero:) book is amazing! Looking forward for this season with your tips, today I bought a fig tree to plant it next to south terrace 😍 have a nice international womens day, greets from Olomouc!
Hi Vera, thank you so much for this video! I actually have your book coming after reading Liz Zorab's Grounded and finding - once again - that well written books are just so much more inspirational than most other sources of information. I really shouldn't be buying even more books, but after watching this I just put another two on my list LOL
I enjoyed this so much, thank you Vera! Barbara Damrosch is one of my heroes as well. I used to skip my university classes so I could watch Barbara and Eliot's fabulous show, Gardening Naturally. I should have taken that as a sign that I was on the wrong path, but I've long since figured that out, thank goodness! :)
Ik ben direct op Boekwinkeltjes gaan kijken voor 2e hands versies van de genoemde boeken. Ik heb twee hele mooie boeken van Joy Larkcom ontvangen: "Creative vegetable garden" en "De Salademoestuin". Heb al wat doorgebladerd en gelezen. Zeer inspirerende boeken. Zonder jouw video had ik deze boeken nooit opgezocht en gelezen! Dank hiervoor. Het valt me op dat Joy Larkcom biologisch tuinieren aanbeveelt en zelf diverse permacultuur ideeën in haar boek De Salademoestuin (Engelse versie 1984). Ook vind ik het interessant te lezen over haar eigen ervaringen van plantencombinaties. Welke goed passen bij elkaar, niet alleen voor het oog, maar ook voor de teelt.
My copy of Sarah Raven is also falling to pieces! I love Alys Fowler for her thrifty 'out of the box' gardening, and for her garden to table books. 'Abundance' is great, The Edible Garden and The Thrifty gardener. I really enjoyed the video of what you are in a week. My kind of food 😋
Here is another classic that was published in the '70's it is a wonderful book of essays about gardening, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi
Thanks for your lovely talk about inspirational women writers and gardeners. I shall try and get your book, I have certainly enjoyed your TH-cam films. A person I have enjoyed is UK writer Alys Fowler. She also does some tv presenting. Thanks again 🐞
Thank you very much, I am aways interested to see new sources of inspiration. I sort of assumed or hoped that Carol Deppe would be part of your list. I was kind of surprised that you didn't mention her, she has three incredibly interesting books and is one of my main inspirations that got me started in gardening and making my own crosses.
Well done on women's day! You certainly got it right with Joy Larkcom. I am definitely interested in having a look at the other books you recommend. Many thanks. Nuka.
Thanks for this very inspiring video! I have been inspired by Stephanie Hafferty (no dig). She wrote two books: No Dig Home & Garden and The Creative Kitchen. She used to work with Charles Dowding (I think she still collaborates actually). May I add you to the female gardeners who have inspired me? 😄 And congratulations on your new book! It's definitely on my to buy list 🤩
I don't know how it is now after Brexit, but I have ordered many seeds from Sarah Raven. She doesn't ship seedlings and plants abroad, but at least it used to be easy to buy seeds from her. I'm definitely going to have a look at Barbara Damrosch's book, sounds very interesting. And I have been eyeing yours as well :-)
Hi Helle, it seems they are unfortunately no longer shipping anything to the EU :( I did bring lots of seeds back from the week when I volunteered and then when I went back for the course. Hopefully, someday, we'll be able to travel to the UK again - I love visiting gardens there (though my famine is not always enthusiastic about that)
Thanks for your advice. You are my hero! I got both your books, because they are so well written and inspiring and off course, I follow all your videos full of nice topics and great ides. Dank je wel! 😊
Thank you so much for all those book reviews. If your not opposed to reading (gardening) books on kindle: all the "edible" books by Rosslind Creasy are available as kindle editions. I have not checked them out, yet.
one of the first books that inspired me to turn big parts of my lawn into "food forest" was "Food not lawn" by Heather Jo Flores. And I love both books by Anni Kelsey: "Edible perennial gardening" and "The Garden of equal delights" - especially the secon one. And I just started on "First time gardener" by Jessica Sowards - because I like her youtube channel "Roots and refuge farm".
My new gardening book for this year was yours. It's a lovely book with very interesting bits that I haven't gotten from other gardening books. I really got into making my own herbal tea last year, and I loved that part.
One book that inspired me to expand my gardening experience, along with your book of course, is Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph. It's a small(ish) book on growing fruit trees (surprise) no taller then you can reach while standing on the ground using mostly pruning techniques. It's perfect for small yards and suburban gardens. Not rocket science perhaps but as a beginner it convinced me to give it a try. I now have seven fruit trees in my suburban yard along with the veggies and everything else.
What a wonderful video on the International Women's Day. You are definitely one of my gardening heroins, Vera! Your videos and book inspire me a lot. Another my favorite lady author/gardener/cook is Deborah Madison. I'll start reading from "The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook" :)
Thank you for this video! I am going to search for your book! My old favorite: Betty E.M. Jacobs, *Growing and Using Herbs Successfully* Storey Publishing, 1976 My new favorite: Niki Jabbour, *Growing Under Cover* Storey Publishing, 2020
Thanks for those suggestions! I know Niki Jabbour from IG and have once interviewed her for an article - it's so inspiring to see what she can achieve in her cold climate!
It's my birthday next month so I now have a list of must have books 📚 I will check out your book I have just moved house we have downsized our house but upside our garden so I am desperate for some polyculture inspiration 😊
Thank you Vera, I loved this video and I LOVE your book!! It’s absolutely brilliant and so useful. I can’t put it down and I hope it never ends. Could you do another video on male authors as well? So I can expand my library with some reliably valuable volumes rather than reading endless recommendations online?
Thank you so much for this video! In Denmark the garden writer I'm most inspired by is called Camilla Plum - i'm not sure if you can get her books in english (maybe some of the cook books) I think your book is great too! :)
Wauw! Det er vildt! :-D Og jeg har lige skrevet lidt til dig på Hollandsk på Patreon *LOL* Hendes bedste bog synes jeg er "Køkkenhaven" - den er lige kommet i et nyt oplag. Og det var så lidt :) :)
I really like D G Hessayons books . They're a bit out of date now and they're not literary masterpieces , but , for me they are masterpieces of presenting lots of complex information ......the nuts and bolts of horticulture.....in a super accessible and attractive way . The accessibility makes it so easy to return to the books and quickly find bits and pieces of information when I find I've forgotten some of the basics.....which , unfortunately ,I do ALL the time . I own " the vegetable and herb expert " , " the fruit expert " , " the flower expert " , and " the greenhouse expert " and would recommend them all as good foundation stones for any gardeners library . I donated a copy of " the vegetable expert " to the tool shed of my local allotment group......it very quickly disappeared !!! Borrowed ??? STOLEN ??!! *%!!....All I can say is that whoever removed it ( and left all the other authors in the toolshed ) has very good taste ! For a while now , I've wished that a knowledgeable gardener would contact Hessayons publishers and offer to update some of his classic books so they don't just die and fade away......any volunteers Vera ? ........hint , hint .
Niet helemaal: het Engelse boek overlapt deels met de eerste 2 delen van Tuin smakelijk (Tuinieren in potten & Permacultuur moestuin). Er is wel ongeveer 25-30% nieuwe inhoud: recepten, meer voorbeelden van polyculturen, een stuk over onze huidige tuin (die hadden we nog niet toen ik Tuin smakelijk aan het schrijven was) ,een mini-snijbloementuin en een overzicht van tuinwerkzaamheden per maand.
I thought the whole ethos of permaculture was plant once and harvest forever, so how it be your garden is a mess? I have yet to see a tidy permaculture garden, they are either being abundant or savagely pruned for the sole purpose of getting healthy abundant crops. Just teasing you! Love your videos and knowledge
Haha, thanks! I find that the smaller the garden, the more maintenance is needed. In larger gardens you can be more relaxed. But I really do need to at least tie in the canes of berries I have growing against the fence!
A really inspiring female gardener for me was/is Liz Zorab. She wrote the book Grounded. It's not so much a reference book but gives a lot of advice about gardening embedded in an inspirational story.
I really like Alys Fowler's books, I have Abundance, The Thrifty Gardener, Edible Gardening and the The Thrifty forager :)
Very nice vlog! I am lacking in woman written gardening books. Time to change that!
Hello from Sweden! Have just found your channel and am so delighted, especially over this theme.
One of my Swedish garden book favorites is Lena Israelsson. Unfortunately, her (in my opinion) best book does not seem to have been translated: "Gormetträdgården" where she describes by far the best varieties of a certain vegetable and vividly tells why. She describes fantastic encounters with a farmer in a remote village somewhere in the world. How the vegetable should be grown and above all, how it can be cooked. Thanks for the book tips! I'll start with yours.
I'm so happy that my garden isn't the only one out there that needs some work
Haha, there is definitely a lot to do!!
So encouraging for you to share the work of several great women gardeners on International Women’s Day. Thank you Vera!
You are my inspiration, Vera. First your TH-cam channel and then your wonderful book 'Edible Paradise' have been very inspiring.
Thank you, Monika, that is so nice to hear!!
Thank you, Vera. I have ordered 4 of the books you recommended including Susan Campbell's, History of Kitchen Gardening, which I found on Abe Books. Many of their books are used, but I have found them to be in good and usuable shape and very cheap.
i had the pleasure of working on joy larkoms new garden a few years ago in cork, a great garden writer, shawna coronado is another american garden writer worth looking up, by the way, on your recommendation im trying brads atomic grape this year, happy gardening ;o)
You are my first Garden Shero:) book is amazing! Looking forward for this season with your tips, today I bought a fig tree to plant it next to south terrace 😍 have a nice international womens day, greets from Olomouc!
`Thanks so much, Anna, for your kind words! I hope your fig does well!
Happy belated women's day! I love how you mention the library, it's a wonderful resource.
Hi Vera, thank you so much for this video! I actually have your book coming after reading Liz Zorab's Grounded and finding - once again - that well written books are just so much more inspirational than most other sources of information. I really shouldn't be buying even more books, but after watching this I just put another two on my list LOL
Thanks for getting my book, I hope it will bring you lots of inspiration🌻
I enjoyed this so much, thank you Vera! Barbara Damrosch is one of my heroes as well. I used to skip my university classes so I could watch Barbara and Eliot's fabulous show, Gardening Naturally. I should have taken that as a sign that I was on the wrong path, but I've long since figured that out, thank goodness! :)
Ik ben direct op Boekwinkeltjes gaan kijken voor 2e hands versies van de genoemde boeken. Ik heb twee hele mooie boeken van Joy Larkcom ontvangen: "Creative vegetable garden" en "De Salademoestuin". Heb al wat doorgebladerd en gelezen. Zeer inspirerende boeken. Zonder jouw video had ik deze boeken nooit opgezocht en gelezen! Dank hiervoor. Het valt me op dat Joy Larkcom biologisch tuinieren aanbeveelt en zelf diverse permacultuur ideeën in haar boek De Salademoestuin (Engelse versie 1984). Ook vind ik het interessant te lezen over haar eigen ervaringen van plantencombinaties. Welke goed passen bij elkaar, niet alleen voor het oog, maar ook voor de teelt.
Wat leuk ome horen dat je de boeken van Joy Larkcom ook zo inspirerend vindt, Barbara!
My copy of Sarah Raven is also falling to pieces! I love Alys Fowler for her thrifty 'out of the box' gardening, and for her garden to table books. 'Abundance' is great, The Edible Garden and The Thrifty gardener. I really enjoyed the video of what you are in a week. My kind of food 😋
Thank you, Sarah! II'd like to do more cooking videos this year - I'm planning one for next week about winter squash :)
Your book is very inspirational too ! Thanks from France.
Here is another classic that was published in the '70's it is a wonderful book of essays about gardening, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
by Eleanor Perenyi
Thanks for your lovely talk about inspirational women writers and gardeners. I shall try and get your book, I have certainly enjoyed your TH-cam films. A person I have enjoyed is UK writer Alys Fowler. She also does some tv presenting. Thanks again 🐞
Thank you! And if you get my book, please let me know what you think!
Thank you for sharing so sincerely and well documented !
Very inspiring, clear, visionairy and informative !
Thank you, Rashmi 💚 It was a little walk down memory lane for me :)
Ohhh! Thanks for those book reviews. 😊. I have some new authors to look up!
I have your book! It’s one of my favourites! Thank you xx
Thanks so much, Samantha!
Thank you very much, I am aways interested to see new sources of inspiration. I sort of assumed or hoped that Carol Deppe would be part of your list. I was kind of surprised that you didn't mention her, she has three incredibly interesting books and is one of my main inspirations that got me started in gardening and making my own crosses.
Thanks for the tip, I am immediately going to look her up!
Well done on women's day! You certainly got it right with Joy Larkcom. I am definitely interested in having a look at the other books you recommend. Many thanks. Nuka.
Thanks for this very inspiring video! I have been inspired by Stephanie Hafferty (no dig). She wrote two books: No Dig Home & Garden and The Creative Kitchen. She used to work with Charles Dowding (I think she still collaborates actually). May I add you to the female gardeners who have inspired me? 😄 And congratulations on your new book! It's definitely on my to buy list 🤩
Thank you!!
I don't know how it is now after Brexit, but I have ordered many seeds from Sarah Raven. She doesn't ship seedlings and plants abroad, but at least it used to be easy to buy seeds from her. I'm definitely going to have a look at Barbara Damrosch's book, sounds very interesting. And I have been eyeing yours as well :-)
Hi Helle, it seems they are unfortunately no longer shipping anything to the EU :( I did bring lots of seeds back from the week when I volunteered and then when I went back for the course. Hopefully, someday, we'll be able to travel to the UK again - I love visiting gardens there (though my famine is not always enthusiastic about that)
Thanks for your advice. You are my hero! I got both your books, because they are so well written and inspiring and off course, I follow all your videos full of nice topics and great ides. Dank je wel! 😊
Thanks so much!!
My booklist just exploded. Thanks for the list. Happy international women's day.
Ha, I can relate - books and plants are my kryptonite :)
Thank you so much for all those book reviews. If your not opposed to reading (gardening) books on kindle: all the "edible" books by Rosslind Creasy are available as kindle editions. I have not checked them out, yet.
one of the first books that inspired me to turn big parts of my lawn into "food forest" was "Food not lawn" by Heather Jo Flores. And I love both books by Anni Kelsey: "Edible perennial gardening" and "The Garden of equal delights" - especially the secon one. And I just started on "First time gardener" by Jessica Sowards - because I like her youtube channel "Roots and refuge farm".
I do have Food not lawns but not the other books - I've been meaning to check them out, thanks for the reminder!
@@GrownToCook oh, and though not strictly a gardening book: Robin Wall Kimmer' "Braiding Sweetgras" is an absolute favorite of mine
Great stories and book recommendations!
My new gardening book for this year was yours. It's a lovely book with very interesting bits that I haven't gotten from other gardening books. I really got into making my own herbal tea last year, and I loved that part.
Thank you, that's so wonderful to hear!!
One book that inspired me to expand my gardening experience, along with your book of course, is Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph. It's a small(ish) book on growing fruit trees (surprise) no taller then you can reach while standing on the ground using mostly pruning techniques. It's perfect for small yards and suburban gardens. Not rocket science perhaps but as a beginner it convinced me to give it a try. I now have seven fruit trees in my suburban yard along with the veggies and everything else.
Thanks for the recommendation, Mel, I’ll look it up, sounds very interesting!
the books I wish I had read many years ago are books by Ruth Stout she is inspirational and very amusing
I have nit read her books but I have seen a documentary and she was amazing!
What a wonderful video on the International Women's Day. You are definitely one of my gardening heroins, Vera! Your videos and book inspire me a lot. Another my favorite lady author/gardener/cook is Deborah Madison. I'll start reading from "The Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook" :)
Thank you, Aki! I love Deborah Madison too! I'm thinking of making a video about my favorite garden-to-table cookbooks!
@@GrownToCook I cannot wait for the video :) I enjoyed watching your cooking video in the end of last year.
Thank you for this video! I am going to search for your book!
My old favorite: Betty E.M. Jacobs, *Growing and Using Herbs Successfully* Storey Publishing, 1976
My new favorite: Niki Jabbour, *Growing Under Cover* Storey Publishing, 2020
Thanks for those suggestions! I know Niki Jabbour from IG and have once interviewed her for an article - it's so inspiring to see what she can achieve in her cold climate!
It's my birthday next month so I now have a list of must have books 📚 I will check out your book I have just moved house we have downsized our house but upside our garden so I am desperate for some polyculture inspiration 😊
Thanks Judith! If you get my book, please let me know what you think!
Thank you Vera, I loved this video and I LOVE your book!! It’s absolutely brilliant and so useful. I can’t put it down and I hope it never ends. Could you do another video on male authors as well? So I can expand my library with some reliably valuable volumes rather than reading endless recommendations online?
Thanks so much, Anna, that really makes me happy! I'd like to do a few of similar videos, maybe my favorite resources for forest gardening?
@@GrownToCook Yes, please! 💛🌷
Thank you so much for this video! In Denmark the garden writer I'm most inspired by is called Camilla Plum - i'm not sure if you can get her books in english (maybe some of the cook books) I think your book is great too! :)
I’ve actually graduated in Norwegian and can read Danish :) I’ll look her up- thank you!
Wauw! Det er vildt! :-D Og jeg har lige skrevet lidt til dig på Hollandsk på Patreon *LOL*
Hendes bedste bog synes jeg er "Køkkenhaven" - den er lige kommet i et nyt oplag.
Og det var så lidt :) :)
I really like D G Hessayons books . They're a bit out of date now and they're not literary masterpieces , but , for me they are masterpieces of presenting lots of complex information ......the nuts and bolts of horticulture.....in a super accessible and attractive way . The accessibility makes it so easy to return to the books and quickly find bits and pieces of information when I find I've forgotten some of the basics.....which , unfortunately ,I do ALL the time .
I own " the vegetable and herb expert " , " the fruit expert " , " the flower expert " , and " the greenhouse expert " and would recommend them all as good foundation stones for any gardeners library .
I donated a copy of " the vegetable expert " to the tool shed of my local allotment group......it very quickly disappeared !!!
Borrowed ??? STOLEN ??!! *%!!....All I can say is that whoever removed it ( and left all the other authors in the toolshed ) has very good taste !
For a while now , I've wished that a knowledgeable gardener would contact Hessayons publishers and offer to update some of his classic books so they don't just die and fade away......any volunteers Vera ? ........hint , hint .
Is 'Tuin Smakelijk" hetzelfde als "Edible Paradise" ?
Niet helemaal: het Engelse boek overlapt deels met de eerste 2 delen van Tuin smakelijk (Tuinieren in potten & Permacultuur moestuin). Er is wel ongeveer 25-30% nieuwe inhoud: recepten, meer voorbeelden van polyculturen, een stuk over onze huidige tuin (die hadden we nog niet toen ik Tuin smakelijk aan het schrijven was) ,een mini-snijbloementuin en een overzicht van tuinwerkzaamheden per maand.
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I hope real women stand up for real women.
I thought the whole ethos of permaculture was plant once and harvest forever, so how it be your garden is a mess? I have yet to see a tidy permaculture garden, they are either being abundant or savagely pruned for the sole purpose of getting healthy abundant crops. Just teasing you! Love your videos and knowledge
Haha, thanks! I find that the smaller the garden, the more maintenance is needed. In larger gardens you can be more relaxed. But I really do need to at least tie in the canes of berries I have growing against the fence!