📚 Organic Gardening

Growing without the synthetics: the methods and materials, and the small compromises of the season.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject organic gardening in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Gardening Without Work	Ruth Stout	1960	12
	Organic Gardening for Dummies	Ann Whitman	2001	11
	Organic gardening	Charles Dowding	2007	10
	Salad leaves for all seasons	Charles Dowding	2008	8
	Let it rot!	Stu Campbell	1975	7
	The vegetable gardener's bible	Edward C. Smith	2000	7
	Growing vegetables west of the Cascades	Steve Solomon	1989	6
	The Organic Lawn Care Manual	Paul Boardway Tukey	2007	6
	How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits by the Organic Method	J. I. (Jerome Irving) Rodale	1961	5
	How to grow more vegetables	John Jeavons	1974	5
	Designing and maintaining your edible landscape naturally	Robert Kourik	1986	5
	Gardening naturally	Ann Reilly	1993	5
	Earth User's Guide to Permaculture	Rosemary Morrow	1994	5
	Gaia's Garden	Toby Hemenway	2000	5
	Kitchen Harvest	Susan Berry	2001	5
	Two acre Eden	Gene Logsdon	1971	4
	The best gardening ideas I know	Robert Rodale	1974	4
	Vegetables Naturally	Jim Hay	1985	4
	Organic gardening	Geoff Hamilton	1992	4
	Start With the Soil	Grace Gershuny	1993	4
	The Permaculture Garden	Graham Bell	1994	4
	Allotment Gardening	Susan Berger	2005	4
	Sufficient	Tom Petherick	2007	4
	Small plot, high yield gardening	Sal Gilbertie	2010	4
	Green Thoughts	Eleanor Perenyi	1983	3
	The new organic grower	Eliot Coleman	1989	3
	Four-Season Harvest	Eliot Coleman	1992	3
	The Harvest Gardener	Susan McClure	1992	3
	The Basics of Permaculture Design	Ross Mars	1996	3
	The 20-Minute Gardener	Marty Asher	1997	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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