the new england gardener’s year: a month-by-month guide for maine, new hampshire, vermont. massachusetts, rhode island, connecticut, and upstate new y

Gardeners will find advice and photos for adapting to any microclimate or situation including shade; wet soil; coastal landscapes; container, raised-bed, and extended-season gardening; and much more. Gardeners and landscapers will treasure this book for its elegant writing and full-color photography, its photo-essay tours of outstanding owner-maintained gardens throughout New England, its focus on organic methods and native plants, and its guidance on integrating gardens of every variety into their surrounding landscapes. Photo sequences of key techniques enhance the book, which is designed and indexed to provide instant access to the information a gardener needs at hand. In Reeser Manley and Marjorie Peronto’s view, the plots of land on which we live are not our ＂yards＂ but our gardens--extensions of the surrounding natural world--and we, as gardeners, are caretakers of that world. They advocate gardening in tune with nature-- avoiding pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and invasive plants, while creating a garden that enhances local biodiversity. The New England Gardener’s Year will guide you to a garden of great beauty and bountiful harvests.

Reeser Manley taught courses in horticulture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at the University of Maine, Orono. For eight years, he wrote a weekly gardening column for the Bangor Daily News. Manley passed away in 2022.

Margorie Peronto has been a professor at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension for 26 years, teaching courses in fruit and vegetable gardening, ecological landscaping, and pruning. She oversees Down East Maine’s Master Gardener Volunteers program promoting sustainable gardening and food security.