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Book Recommendations

Adults:

  • Herb gardening: how to prepare the soil, choose your plants, and care for, harvest, and use your herbs by Melissa Melton Snyder
  • The complete guide to no-dig gardening: grow beautiful vegetables, herbs, and flowers – the easy way! by Charlie Nardozzi
  • Gardening for children with autism spectrum disorders and special educational needs: engaging with nature to combat anxiety, promote sensory integration and build social skills by Natasha Etherington
  • Saving seeds: the gardener’s guide to growing and storing vegetable and flower seeds by Marc Rogers
  • What’s wrong with my vegetable garden?: 100% organic solutions for all your vegetables, from artichokes to zucchini by David Deardorff and Kathryn Wadsworth
  • The gardener’s year
  • Gardening with less water: low-tech, low-cost techniques: use up to 90% less water in your garden by David A. Bainbridge
  • Raised bed revolution: build it, fill it, plant it … garden anywhere! by Tara Nolan
  • McGee & Stuckey’s the bountiful container: a container garden of vegetables, herbs, fruits and edible flowers Rose Marie Nichols McGee and Maggie Stuckey

Youth:

  • Edible gardening: growing your own vegetables, fruits, and more by Lisa J. Amstutz
  • Plant, sow, make & grow: mud-tastic activities for budding gardeners by Esther Coombs
  • My first garden Satu Hämeenaho Fox

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  • Lancaster, PA 17603
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  • Sunday: Closed

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  • Mountville, PA 17554
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  • (717) 285-3231

Hours of Operation

  • Monday: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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  • Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Saturday: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Sunday: Closed

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