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Informational Resources for New Jersey Gardeners
Planted January 1, 2000
Last tended to on October 19, 2024
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Recommended Books:
“Mid-Atlantic Fruit & Vegetable Gardening: Plant, Grow, and Harvest the Best Edibles - Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C.,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. This book equips you with all the information you need to design your edible garden, tend the soil, maintain your plants throughout their life cycles, and–most importantly–harvest the delicious foods they produce. So whether you live in the Delaware Valley, in the Beltway, or anywhere else in the Mid-Atlantic United States, you’ll discover the best fruit and vegetable plants for your garden in this beautiful step-by-step how-to guide . . . and they’ll be on your table before you know it.
“Mid-Atlantic Gardener’s Handbook: Your Complete Guide: Select, Plan, Plant, Maintain, Problem-Solve - Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.,” by Katie Elzer-Peters. The book includes plant selection – ornamental landscape and edible plants – and “when-to” gardening maintenance information. Planting and growing information for edibles is also included, along with plant selections for the most common plant categories.
“Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition,” by Eliot Coleman. If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat.
“Fresh from the Garden: An Organic Guide to Growing Vegetables, Berries, and Herbs in Cold Climates,” by John Whitman. Fresh is simply best. To get the tastiest, most nutritious produce, you have to grow your own, and in a cold climate this presents unique challenges. Fresh from the Garden will help you extend the growing season to produce the best vegetables, berries, and herbs, right in your own backyard. The guide includes more than 150 edible plants and helps you decide which varieties to choose; where and how to plant, tend, and harvest them; and what to do with your bounty. Fresh from the Garden is a clear, concise (yet comprehensive) guide, with nutrition information tables and hundreds of helpful color photographs. A gardening text book!
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Places to Visit:
- Colonial Park Arboretum and Gardens – 156 Mettlers Road, Franklin Township, East Millstone, 08873
- Durand-Hedden House and Garden – 523 Ridgewood Road, Grasmere Park, Maplewood, NJ 07040
- Florence and Robert Zuck Arboretum – Drew University, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940
- Frank C. Helyar Woods / Rutgers Gardens – The State University of New Jersey, 112 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
- Historic Morven – 55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
- Macculloch Hall Historical Museum and Gardens – 45 Macculloch Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07960
- New Jersey State Botanical Garden – 1304 Sloatsburg Road, Ringwood State Park, Morris Road, Ringwood, NJ 07456
- Wick House Herb Garden – Morristown National Historic Park, 580 Tempe Wicke Road, Jockey Hollow, Morristown, NJ 07960
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