Purchase Signed Copies of Lee Reich's Books

WEEDLESS GARDENING (2001, Workman)

Turning conventional wisdom on its head, this book shows how to garden like Mother Nature, offering a system that's good for plants and good for people. Eschewing the yearly digging up and working over the soil, WEEDLESS GARDENING is an easy-to-follow, low-impact approach to planting and maintaining a flower garden, a vegetable garden, trees, and shrubs naturally. Say good-bye to backaches and weed problems. Illustrated. Roger Swain (Host of The Victory Garden) says: "The deepest wisdom gardening has to offer. Do as Lee Reich says. Pay attention to the top few inches of soil and nature will take care of the rest."

Softcover, 195 pages - $8.95

THE PRUNING BOOK (Taunton Press, 1997)

The lively text, abundant photographs, and clear drawings of this book make pruning any plant easy. This book walks you through the basics of pruning in a clear, step-by-step approach and then details how to prune everything from ornamental bushes to trees, vines, fruits, and houseplants. Guidelines for pruning hundreds of species are included, cover plants from cold climates to the tropics. A section on specialized pruning techniques covers espalier, topiary, bonsai, and pollarding. For both beginning and advanced gardeners.

Softcover, 234 pages - $19.95

UNCOMMON FRUITS FOR EVERY GARDEN (Timber Press, 2004)

A valuable guide to fruits and berries that add an adventurous flavor to any garden. Though names like jujube, juneberry, maypop, and shipova may seem exotic at first glance, these fruits offer delectable rewards to the gardener willing to go only slightly off the beaten path at local nurseries. Reliable even in the toughest garden situations, cold-hardy and pest-resistant, they are as enticing to the beginning as to the advanced gardener. This expanded sequel to the author's celebrated Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention offers new fruits, new varieties, and new photos and illustrations to entice the reader into an exciting world of garden pleasure.

Hardcover, 288 pages - $24.95

A NORTHEAST GARDENER'S YEAR (1992, Addison-Wesley)

A book to carry you through the gardening year, month by month. Topics run the gamut, from wild tulips to brussels sprouts to pressed flowers to siting houseplants. For both the armchair and dirt-under-the-fingernails gardener. Chock full of garden know-how: what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.

While this book is about a garden in the northeast, gardeners throughout the country will find common ground merely by adding or subtracting a few days or weeks on either side of the outdoor growing season. Reportedly a good bedside read.

Softcover, 262 pages - $17.00