Building a Healthy Lawn  (979 076 112 2753) by Stuart Franklin, $14.95

Why take chances with your family's health when you can have a healthy lawn without using dangerous (and expensive) fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides?  This guide for the homeowner provides a simple step-by-step and month-by-month approach that results in lush turf that you can feel good about.

Garden Primer  (978 076 112 2753) by Barbara Damrosch, $18.95

An expert in small-scale organic sustainable farming, Damrosch shares her lifetime of experience in this entertaining and indispensable reference guide.  Her fuss-free advice includes growing vegetables that harvest into January, lawn care, and tending to annuals, perennials, vines, ground covers and trees.  The book is full of useful design plans, great advice on which tools to purchase and even discusses house plant care--it's all here!

Complete Book of Herbs  (978 155 407 3658) by Jekka McVicar, $29.95

If you could choose just one book on herbs, this is the one one to savor.  Beautiful full-color photos of common and uncommon herbs along with with detailed descriptions of cultivation and uses fill this volume.

Organic Gardeners Handbook of Insect and Disease Control  (978 087 596 7530) by Elllis and Bradley, $19.95

This is simply one of the best organic garden guides to identify, prevent and treat garden pests and diseases.  Detailed color photos depict the problems clearly and the text provides accessible information towards a non-toxic solution.  The book is helpful to  both homeowner and professional gardener.

Massachusetts Gardening Companion (978 076 274 3094) by Barbara Gee, $14.95

An easy-to-understand guide to help you to meet the challenges of the wide variety of micro-climates found in the Bay State.  Mountainous. seaside or city -scape;  all climates are covered here and include great plant lists for specific sites and well-researched local sources for plant materials and gardening assistance.