The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch

Barbara Damrosch is a well-known garden expert and author in the United States. She is the author of Theme Gardens and The Garden Primer, as well as A Cook's Garden, a weekly column for The Washington Post. She was a regular correspondent on the PBS series The Victory Garden and co-hosted the Learning Channel series Gardening Naturally. She and her husband, Eliot Coleman, co-own Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine, an experimental market garden that is a nationally known model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.